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Spotify is Swedish.

Thanks.

Putting the El Observador article through translate

When a song in Uruguay is played on radio, television or at a party, the rights are collected by the General Association of Authors of Uruguay (Agadu) which retains the 60% of what is paid. The remaining 40% is divided equally between performers and record labels.

Spotify says that it already pays for the rights. This understanding would mean that the players in Uruguay should work out how that is to be split.

Spotify fears that the new law turns what they pay currently, simply into one share of the total, implying an extreme increase of the cost.

Yes. Or maybe you dreamt it and were a bit confused on waking up. Perfectly normal and nothing to worry about.

Maybe relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis

The point of the joke is that it makes no difference if a persona is fake or "real". I think the issues you raise are real. But it makes no difference to unrealistic beauty standards whether artists alter an existing human body or make one up wholesale. If anything, it's more benign if people rationally know that it is all a fantasy.

After reading the whole article, I still don't know what Uruguay wants to happen.

You mean like:

Warning! You will never be in a relationship with this model.

Yes. That seems like something people should know.

People say that AI will kill us all by ordering too many paperclips.

So people try to make AI safe by stopping it from making images of nude people.

WTF is wrong with everyone? Am I stuck in the most boring Lewis Carroll story ever?

Thanks, looks like a good resource.

So acquiring and distributing pirated materials like college textbooks and otherwise expensive software is one example.

That's an interesting example, because in threads on AI lawsuits there are many calls for expanding intellectual property, without any consideration for public benefit. It's such an outright doubling down on all the pathological aspects of capitalism. It made me look whether there are any equally concrete demands going the other way and eventually make this post.

Thanks, I'm lining this up for listening.

There is a project (AI Horde) that allows you to donate compute for inference. I'm not sure why the same doesn't exist for training. I think the RAM/VRAM requirements just can't be lowered/split.

Another way to contribute is by helping with training data. LAION, which created the dataset behind Stable Diffusion, is a volunteer effort. Stable Diffusion itself was developed at a tax-funded public university in Germany. However, the cost of the processing for training, etc. was covered by a single rich guy.

Ideally, they wouldn't be paying salaries? What?

I was really asking about that specific bit. The idea of the state doing much to help the poor seems a little dated, from what I see of USA politics on the internet. I don't see much opposition to redistribution, but then, neither do I see much favor for it.

ETA: Thanks for the answer, though.

“I am Andrew Ryan, and I’m here to ask you a question. Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow? ‘No!’ says the man in Washington, ‘It belongs to the poor.’

How do Americans feel about this attitude?

“ooooh I can’t wait to see what they create”

My first thought was: "Isn't that obvious?"

My second thought was: "Wait. You can do that cheaper in Japan."

It's just a scam. Every couple years, some guys sell a ship to some naive libertarians.

Looks like he wants to create a joint venture of several companies with a couple of independent consultants. Ok. Good luck. He doesn't owe the world any free labor. He can try to negotiate any kind of compensation scheme for his intellectual property. That's capitalism.

On a less capitalistic note: The EU provides a bit of government funding for FOSS development on account of the public benefit.

https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/news/2022-04/Development%20of%20a%20Funding%20Mechanism%20for%20Sustaining%20Open%20Source%20Software%20for%20European%20Public%20Services.pdf

The term comes from an old theory that said that humanity started out in the Caucasus and spread from there, people becoming darker as they were exposed to more sun.

Not quite. The guy who coined the term, Blumenbach, believed that the Caucasians (in particular the Georgians) were the most beautiful and therefore must have been the original humans. Maybe "old theory" means the biblical belief that "Noah's Ark" stranded in the Caucasus Mountains. I don't know that Blumenbach used that as a justification. Biblical race doctrines defined races as descent from different sons of Noah.

The Caucasians are certainly far from the palest people on the planet. The south of the region is part of Turkey and Iran. Those are maybe the most well-known countries and the region and I'm sure that no one pictures very pale people. I remember an article about the considerable diplomatic and PR efforts that Turkey undertook in the early 20th century to be made a white country under US law. I wish I could recall the details.

There's no rational, scientific connection between the Caucasus and the American race term. I'm not even sure if Americans would consider Caucasians all that white, given that many of them are muslim; like the Chechen ethnicity.

That may explain something about why Uber succeeded in the US. I have no idea what a pickup area is. Isn't the point of calling a taxi that they pick you up where you are? Ring the doorbell? And if one dispatcher service is no good, why not use another?

I have never been able to understand Uber. They never invented anything new. Maybe there weren't e-hailing apps everywhere, but that's not so much better phoning for a taxi. The main thing they did was to spend an insane amount of money only to brush aside taxi regulations in the US and maybe some other countries. I have no idea how anyone expects to see a return on that "investment".