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  • The modern notion of "interchangeable parts" was developed for guns; they're made to be maintained and repaired. Parts that wear out can be replaced. You can still get new replacement parts for guns made over a hundred years ago.

  • The Empire Strikes Back, from the back seat of my parents' car, at a drive-in.

    Apparently I kept asking "who's that? who's that?" whenever anyone new came on screen. To be fair, though, ① I hadn't seen Star Wars, and ② I was maybe three years old.

  • It doesn’t have to have a copy of all copyrighted works it trained from in order to violate copyright law, just a single one.

    Sure, which would create liability to that one work's copyright owner; not to every author. Each violation has to be independently shown: it's not enough to say "well, it recited Harry Potter so therefore it knows Star Wars too;" it has to be separately shown to recite Star Wars.

    It's not surprising that some works can be recited; just as it's not surprising for a person to remember the full text of some poem they read in school. However, it would be very surprising if all works from the training data can be recited this way, just as it's surprising if someone remembers every poem they ever read.

  • It's a different approach to religious neutrality in government than the one used in the US, but I'm not convinced it's an invalid one.

    (In the US we have difficulties over government employees refusing to do their legally required job because "it's against their religion" to process paperwork for people they disapprove of, e.g. The Gays.)