We could shut of all fossil fuel usage tomorrow except for where it's needed (eg a single generator to kick start a countries power grid if things actually go down) and make a painful hard switch to renewables. We could begin using renewable energy sources to start extracting CO2 from the atmosphere.
I don't know and can't speak to how effective that would be, from memory the earth would continue to warm for some time to come even on their optimistic predictions.
The last IPCC climate change report predicted that shits gonna get real fucking bad for a while, but at the rate we're going it should at least turn around sometime between 80 to 100 years.
There are multiple issues at play here, on both the legal and ethical levels. But your a whole lot of wrong.
At the Legal level, the DMCA Act protects search engines and grants them protections to index websites. A for profit (!) AI does not have those same DMCA benefits (or at least, it hasn't played out in court yet).
The law is slow to catch up, but it will probably get there.
Not to mention your comparison to a book I wrote... if I created a unique character for said book, lets say, Bucky Bouce. Then I would own the copyright on that character for a long time thanks to Disney. A machine learning model being trained on my book would not be able to differentiate between the word "mesothelioma" and the character Bucky Bouce.
If I invent a new way to cure "mesothelioma", and publish that in a scientific paper, I can still file a patent on that cure. I can then own that process for quite some time. If I'm rich enough I can even drag it through the courts to extend that protection. Looking at you Bedaquiline.
Honestly? Mac laptops are really good right now. The move to ARM based processes has gone... stupidly well. Had you asked me in 2019 if I thought ARM was ready for the main line I would of laughed at you, as would most IT enthusiasts.
But Apple did it, and the battery life savings they've managed are killer. Meanwhile Windows laptops can barely get sleep right.
I've been trying to decide what the best, smoothest, option is to make the fediverse "better".
I think that making a line between a "Fediverse client" and "Fediverse Server" is the answer. A client that can easily browse multitudes of servers, letting you join lemmy subs and follow mastodon accounts might be the answer.
They're doing some dodgy stuff with your data, that's for sure. But the sign-up is smooth. Instagram has a LOT of users, and Meta is leveraging that and making it super easy to share to IG that you have made said threads account (and if you don't, they will do it for you). The FOMO is real.
They have taken the biggest challenge to use a new social media platform, rebuilding your spidery web of follows, mutuals, weird interests, and friends, and made it basically transparent. It's a UX marvel. The sign-up numbers reflect that IMO.
The obvious answer is yes.
We could shut of all fossil fuel usage tomorrow except for where it's needed (eg a single generator to kick start a countries power grid if things actually go down) and make a painful hard switch to renewables. We could begin using renewable energy sources to start extracting CO2 from the atmosphere.
I don't know and can't speak to how effective that would be, from memory the earth would continue to warm for some time to come even on their optimistic predictions.