Plagiarism can happen intentionally or unintentionally when a person uses another person's ideas or words without citing the original source. Here are four common forms of plagiarism:
Copying another person's words without using quotation marks or referencing the original source
Copying an author's words without using quotation marks but using accurate footnotes to the original source
Paraphrasing an author's ideas without including a reference to the original source
Rearranging an author's exact words, even if there is a footnote to the original source
This is taking someone's work and passing it off as your own. Did you not do a simple google search when there was some doubt to the definition, like I just did?
I spent a fair amount of time on reddit over something around 15 years (I think) and not once did I happen upon someone with -100 karma that didn't earn it by being a troll. I found it very useful to be able to weed out people who weren't actually commenting to further the conversation, but derail it. Is that the type of thing you're talking about not wanting?
But, as I mentioned above, Twix the candy bar and TwiX the portmanteau for Twitter/X exist in different product spaces. Consumers are unlikely to be confused between the two. I still wouldn't mind it catching on, haha.
Source on them not being legally binding? They have a mixed track record but I've never seen anyone flat out say they aren't legally binding. Sometimes they are; sometimes they are not.
I am no lawyer, but I'm pretty sure that something pre-dating the trademark is grandfathered in. Hence why Steam uses steampowered.com and not steam.com
That's fair but presumably, since they're not racking up fines cumulatively, that they are now in accordance with the law... so are you saying that the current level is "reasonable"? Am I misunderstanding you point?
The article quotes the TOS that gives only one reason why a person might lose their twiX handle, and it's not "Elon Musk wants it", so there's probably going to be a line of lawyers wanting to take this case.
They should have at least offered to give him the twitter handle. haha
but the scale and invasiveness of the ads and data collection has clearly accelerated beyond a reasonable level
Reasonable to whom? You? Google? The legal system? Some dude living in a bunker in South Dakota? Which person or entity should google consult with before making a decision on what level is "reasonable"?
Making the decision to fund a vast majority of the internet with ads was a pretty big mistake in hindsight, though I couldn't say which way would have been better.
We don't disagree on the basics; I just don't blame a company for acting in the company's best financial interests. That's kind of the way they work-- arguably the CEO of a public company is bound by law to do so. I blame the representatives in the (US) government for failing to protect my interests and privacy. I frequently see news articles about consumer protections in Europe and feel jealous that we don't have the same level here.
All this copyright/AI stuff is so silly and a transparent money grab.
They're not worried that people are going to ask the LLM to spit out their book; they're worried that they will no longer be needed because a LLM can write a book for free. (I'm not sure this is feasible right now, but maybe one day?) They're trying to strangle the technology in the courts to protect their income. That is never going to work.
Notably, there is no "right to control who gets trained on the work" aspect of copyright law. Obviously.
Now I feel they are harvesting all my data to jam ads down my throat.
I'm curious: how did you expect them to pay for the overhead of providing this service? I'm sure you didn't think that they would just eat the cost of providing it forever, right?
Did you read that?
Oh no, I plagiarized! lol