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ia, 3 months ago

@yatil @marcus Alt texts are important, and with the changes we have made we can provide them for both content blocks and standard markdown. They are on the list for the next smaller release.

ia, 4 months ago

AI is the new stock image.
https://ia.net/topics/ai-art-is-the-new-stock-image

ia, 4 months ago

@carlton There are thousands waiting, but we have to move slowly. We'll let in the first 100 this week.

ia, 5 months ago

@alx Send us your crash reports. If you can share the document that crashes... it usually helps. https://ia.net/writer/support/help/trouble-shooting?tab=mac Support is on a break. So this is just a wild guess. Crashing with different apps is likely related to something special in the document. A known issue is if you have a series of videos (20+) that you embed. We'll get back to you after the break. Check if it happens with a new document.

ia, 5 months ago

When Sarah Silverman sues, the contrarian in us thinks "Yeah, you're not that important for AI". Her case becomes clearer when the NYT sues with actual proof of stolen and resold information. It clarifies that, pars pro toto, Sarah Silverman (and the millions that she represents) has as much of a case as the NYT. Of course tech optimists, AI ideologues, and those who are just capitalists when it suits them, would viscously disagree. Tough case though if you don't squint.

ia, 5 months ago

The common argument is that LLMs don't store the data in a database that they use directly in their responses. This is disingenuous. They store stolen data in a database that they use to train and retrain their weights and parameters. The pirated content is… on a different hard drive, used at a different point in the process.

However you may judge this right now... legally, economically, technically, rhetorically and philosophically this will be a very interesting court case to follow.

ia, 5 months ago

Legally, this is about copyright. Can you scrape data you get access one way or the other (is a personal license okay, or does it need a commercial account) to train your commercial app that produces a comparable mashup of what you scraped and that you sell at global scale? Is it legally sound to do that since news organizations didn't know about your new technology? There is also a question of copyethics. Does this really scale, morally? Can this behavioral pattern become common practice?

ia, 5 months ago

General IT copy ethics should look at it from different ethical scholarly perspectives. F.i. Deontological: does someone taking advantage of a new technology and resell someone else's work by automated alteration at global scale define a pattern that can become common practice? Eudemonistic: Does it further individual happiness? Virtue ethics: Is it beautiful, truthful, good? Analytic: How does one talk about AI, human creativity and copying in a coherent way?

ia, 5 months ago

@soypunk Evidently. When we trained our syntax highlight for iA Writer for Windows we hit an economic brick wall because we weren't able to afford access for the main languages we'd like to support. Only English had a free corpus we could use.

ia, 5 months ago

Copyright/IP adversaries and OpenAI/Microsoft are strange bed fellows. The issue with copyright and IP is that over time it pretty much perverted its original idea (protecting the original author from being ripped off). IP law allows money extraction by big commercial entities. As a small commercial entity, copyright is not your first priority. Copy ethics matter. Copy ethics matter actively and passively, to you as copying and copied subject. https://ia.net/topics/copycats-and-other-monsters

ia, 4 months ago

"Your content is not that important to us, it's irrelevant in the big picture, but it's important for humanity that we use it together with everybody else's content for free so we can save the world, by creating a machine that can produce similar content to yours, cheaper, that we then sell. So, we're very anti-copyright now, not for profit, for humanity's sake. We swear."

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/jan/08/ai-tools-chatgpt-copyrighted-material-openai

ia, 5 months ago

Learn formatting directly in your editor: Right-click on elements like *, >, | or “emphasis”, “heading”, “tables” for instant help. The dictionary lets you quickly reference Markdown syntax without disrupting your workflow, ensuring accurate and consistent formatting across your documents.

Learn and Reference: You can use the dictionary app directly for learning Markdown syntax. The window includes examples to clarify general and special usage.

https://ia.net/topics/ia-markdown-dictionary

Learn and Reference: You can use the dictionary app directly for learning Markdown syntax.

ia, 5 months ago

@alx We'll add that to the feature request list. We are not too keen on third party dependencies. Would be great if there was something like an official, non commercial database. Is there something like that or are we missing how Zotero works?