Tuesday, October 22

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Daily News Stuff 22 October 2024

I Am Not Making This Up Edition

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  • The Wall Street Journal and the New York Post are suing AI startup Perplexity over copyright infringement.  (Variety)

    To be fair, that seems to be Perplexity's entire business model: Index copyrighted content, summarise it, file off the serial numbers, and then provide it to users to answer their questions.
    News Corp CEO Robert Thomson, in a statement about the lawsuit, said: "Perplexity perpetrates an abuse of intellectual property that harms journalists, writers, publishers and News Corp. The perplexing Perplexity has willfully copied copious amounts of copyrighted material without compensation, and shamelessly presents repurposed material as a direct substitute for the original source. Perplexity proudly states that users can 'skip the links'  - apparently, Perplexity wants to skip the check."
    From my understanding of Perplexity, this is actually pretty accurate.

    This bit less so:
    We applaud principled companies like OpenAI, which understands that integrity and creativity are essential if we are to realize the potential of artificial intelligence
    OpenAI is as unprincipled as any company in the industry, but with billions of dollars of investors money to burn, they can pay off at least some of their victims.


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1 If they have a timeline for removing the catastrophic screw up and Democrat partisan Iger, that means that Winthrop 'Chainsaw Chainsaw' Higgens may be dismantling the company in as soon as three weeks.

Posted by: PatBuckman at Wednesday, October 23 2024 03:26 AM (rcPLc)

2 Lithium wasn't the one they have trouble sourcing though. It's a light element, and very abundant, despite sitting in a particular column of the periodic table. It's the cobalt that we can't get large amounts of. (Though even that has substitutes.)

Posted by: madrocketsci at Wednesday, October 23 2024 10:52 AM (hRoyQ)

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