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  • I just signed up with them, too. They were able to get me a link to the age of a small, nondescript lava flow near my town on the third hit. (5000 years old! A youngster!) All the other search engines gave me unrelated crap.

    I have a hard stop set up for when I hit $10, so I'll switch tiers if it comes to that. 😅

    I don't necessarily like paying for search, but I couldn't take ad-driven search any longer. Big waste of time getting through the chaff.

  • Seems like three issues.

    1. Downloading a pirated copy of the work. Pretty clear cut that this is illegal.
    2. Feeding a work into an algorithm. This seems to me like it should be legal. Making it illegal looks like it would open an incredibly shitty can of worms.
    3. Generating and distributing a partial copy of a copyrighted work. ("The AI just spat out three paragraphs of my text nearly verbatim!") It's unclear if this is even happening.
  • Maybe, but it's definitely legal to write a book in the style of an author.

  • Perhaps, but Chrome does the same every time you hit a Russian website.

  • I hear you, but those are classes of apps, not specific apps. And none of those laws would appear to apply to TikTok.

  • So they won't be banned from distributing TikTok in the app store?

  • I'll rephrase: the next election in [YOUR COUNTRY HERE] is going to be interesting. You're welcome!

  • Ad blocking on desktop and mobile is awesome.

    And it's vital to have multiple browser engines in the wild for interoperability. If we go all Chromium-based, we're going to eventually pay for that like IE6.

    And Google is kind of an untrustworthy POS of a company these days.

  • The next US election cycle is going to be all kinds of interesting. Maybe it doesn't end with war like The Terminator or The Matrix. Maybe it ends in an election.

    Then war.

  • Data gets a lot closer to "speech" than a substance does. This will be interesting to watch, for sure.

  • But I'm talking about Apple being banned from distributing or, and Apple is a US company.

  • It was okay to distribute in the US, wasn't it?

  • I'm trying to think of another example where a US government entity prevented a private US company (Apple or Google) from distributing software within the US.

  • Would you prefer to use a phone or a handheld scanner and a PC? What kind of phone or PC?

  • Every time I find a site like this, I assume the programming is bad and the security is poor. (They don't know how to sanitize input? They don't know how to hash passwords?) It's a good reason to use random passwords on every site for when that one is compromised.

  • If it generates verbatim output, then we have a good old copyright violation, which courts could latch onto for standing.

    But if I hire people to write books in the style of Stephen King and then train an AI with them, where's King's recourse?

    And the AI could be trained on public domain data and still be a competitor to authors. It seems like the plaintiffs would have to be equally against this usage if they're worried about their jobs.

    But in those two cases, I don't think any laws are broken.

    I just think, aside from a plain old piracy violation, it's going to be a tricky one in court. Sure you can't just copy the book, but running a copy of a book through an algorithm is tougher to ban, and it's not something that necessarily should be illegal.