The increasing power of the latest artificial intelligence systems is stretching traditional evaluation methods to breaking point, posing a challenge to businesses and public bodies over how best to work with the fast-evolving technology....
Regardless of whether or not AI is a waste, it is having real, tangible effects on the economy and strategic planning for businesses. Simply dismissing it is also not helpful.
According to a recent tweet shared by AI enthusiast Nick St. Pierre, the alleged theft occurred last Saturday. It is claimed that employees from Stability AI infiltrated Midjourney’s database and stole all prompt and image pairs, an action that also caused a 24-hour outage. In response, MJ reportedly banned all Stable...
The image output themselves might not be protected by copyrights. However, that does not mean that there are no rights over the code (or prompts) used to generate those images or over the database compilations themselves (https://www.copyright.gov/reports/appendix.pdf).
Thanks, I appreciate the comment. It is logical that there is not one-size-fits-all approach. I will dig into the specifics of distros of interest for more information.
I do not think that you can shoehorn existing copyright laws to AI-generated art. It's not an apples to apples issue.
While there might be certain creativity and effort that is worth protecting in some gen-AI art cases, it does not require the same kind of skill, materials, time, effort, cost, and dedication that copyrights were envisioned to protect with more traditional works.
I have a ton of unclaimed games collecting dust in my Humble Bundle account, either games I already own or have no interest in. So instead, I'm giving them all away here....
Imo, Compared with Storm Gate, ZeroSpace look more geared towards SC2 fans compared to SG that is more WC3 with trees that serve as removable obstacles.
Twitter is transforming into X, as the site’s former bird logo has now been replaced by an official new X logo. Elon Musk, who owns the transformed social media site, began signaling the change early Sunday morning with a series of tweets, starting with one that said, “and soon we shall bid adieu to the twitter brand and,...
I have a hard time imagining that a letter individually considered, with only minimal stylization, will not have lots of issues for being protected and defended as a trademark.
Although the sun provides nearly all the energy needed to warm the planet, its contribution to climate change remains widely questioned. Many empirically based studies claim that it has a significant effect on climate, while others (often based on computer global climate simulations) claim that it has a small effect.
Speed of AI development is outpacing risk assessment (arstechnica.com)
The increasing power of the latest artificial intelligence systems is stretching traditional evaluation methods to breaking point, posing a challenge to businesses and public bodies over how best to work with the fast-evolving technology....
Midjourney Accuses Stability AI of Image Theft, Bans Its Employees (80.lv)
According to a recent tweet shared by AI enthusiast Nick St. Pierre, the alleged theft occurred last Saturday. It is claimed that employees from Stability AI infiltrated Midjourney’s database and stole all prompt and image pairs, an action that also caused a 24-hour outage. In response, MJ reportedly banned all Stable...
Do new patches that are incorporated in the "stable tree" of older kernel versions make it back into the distros?
Hi! This is a bit of a newbie question, so please bear with me....
Opinion: The Copyright Office is making a mistake on AI-generated art (arstechnica.com)
Google’s new Topics API makes users vulnerable to fingerprinting attacks (www.theregister.com)
Google has stated it plans to address developers’ concerns by “making web publishers promise not to abuse the API”....
Leftover Humble Bundle Keys giveaway
I have a ton of unclaimed games collecting dust in my Humble Bundle account, either games I already own or have no interest in. So instead, I'm giving them all away here....
Inside the AI Porn Marketplace Where Everything and Everyone Is for Sale (www.404media.co)
Each of these reads like an extremely horny and angry man yelling their basest desires at Pornhub’s search function.
That time Neelix disabled the ship with cheese (beehaw.org)
ZeroSpace look like a good StarCraft2 spiritual successor (youtu.be)
Imo, Compared with Storm Gate, ZeroSpace look more geared towards SC2 fans compared to SG that is more WC3 with trees that serve as removable obstacles.
Twitter is now X as the little blue bird disappears (www.theverge.com)
Twitter is transforming into X, as the site’s former bird logo has now been replaced by an official new X logo. Elon Musk, who owns the transformed social media site, began signaling the change early Sunday morning with a series of tweets, starting with one that said, “and soon we shall bid adieu to the twitter brand and,...
Genetically modified trees could mean more sustainable wood (www.popsci.com)
Gene editing can streamline the process of wood fiber production, by modifying poplar trees to reduce the amount of their hard lignin.
Understanding the role of the sun in climate change (phys.org)
Although the sun provides nearly all the energy needed to warm the planet, its contribution to climate change remains widely questioned. Many empirically based studies claim that it has a significant effect on climate, while others (often based on computer global climate simulations) claim that it has a small effect.
The search giant has made the decision in response to Canada’s Online News Act. (www.theverge.com)
Canada recently passed the Online News Act.