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This essay by @pluralistic incidentally sheds some light on my almost comical struggles to get broadband at a house in a semi-rural area, which recently culminated in LARGE ISP assuring me that they have no fiber going to the house owned by the neighbor who gets service from LARGE ISP’s RESELLER. As my neighbor demonstrably has Internet access, I can only assume that the packets are hand-carried to their front door by helpful elves.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112451309811648263

pluralistic,
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@dolmen @angusm

I already wrote that story!

https://reactormag.com/shannons-law/

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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Utah's getting some of America's best broadband; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/16/symmetrical-10gb-for-119/

#Pluralistic

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TOMORROW (May 17), I'm in San Francisco at the @internetarchive to keynote the tenth anniversary of the @AuthorsAlliance:

https://www.authorsalliance.org/2024/03/15/authors-alliance-10th-anniversary-event-authorship-in-an-age-of-monopoly-and-moral-panics/

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Residents of 21 cities in Utah have access to some of the fastest, most competitively priced broadband in the US, at speeds up to 10gb/s and prices as low as $75/month. It's uncapped, and the connections are symmetrical: perfect for uploading and downloading. And it's all thanks to the government.

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https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/16/symmetrical-10gb-for-119/#utopia

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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Even if you think AI search could be good, it won't be good; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/15/they-trust-me-dumb-fucks/

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TONIGHT (May 15), I'm in North Hollywood for a screening of Stephanie Kelton's Finding the Money:

https://www.laemmle.com/film/finding-money?date=2024-05-15

Friday (May 17), I'm in San Francisco at the @internetarchive to keynote the tenth anniversary of the @AuthorsAlliance:

https://www.authorsalliance.org/2024/03/15/authors-alliance-10th-anniversary-event-authorship-in-an-age-of-monopoly-and-moral-panics/

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The big news in search this week is that Google is continuing its transition to "AI search" - instead of typing in search terms and getting links to websites, you'll ask Google a question and an AI will compose an answer based on things it finds on the web:

https://blog.google/products/search/generative-ai-google-search-may-2024/

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/15/they-trust-me-dumb-fucks/#ai-search

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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: AI "art" and uncanniness; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/13/spooky-action-at-a-close-up/

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Tomorrow (May 14), I'm on a livecast about AI and enshittification with @timoreilly:

https://www.oreilly.com/live-events/tim-oreilly-and-cory-doctorow-on-enshittification-and-the-future-of-ai/0642572001651/

Wednesday (May 15), I'm in North Hollywood for a screening of Stephanie Kelton's Finding the Money:

https://www.laemmle.com/film/finding-money?date=2024-05-15

Friday (May 17), I'm in San Francisco at the @internetarchive to keynote the tenth anniversary of the @AuthorsAlliance:

https://www.authorsalliance.org/2024/03/15/authors-alliance-10th-anniversary-event-authorship-in-an-age-of-monopoly-and-moral-panics/

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When it comes to AI art (or "art"), it's hard to find a nuanced position that respects creative workers' labor rights, free expression, copyright law's vital exceptions and limitations, and aesthetics.

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/13/spooky-action-at-a-close-up/#invisible-hand

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pluralistic,
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@markuswerle The law regarding criminal theft isn't copyright law. Every word in every book appears in another, copyrighted book. If taking enough single words from other books added up to infringement, no more books would ever be possible.

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@markuswerle @timoreilly @internetarchive @AuthorsAlliance

No, copyleft licenses don't trump fair use,, de minimis, and other limitations and exceptions.

CC, GPL, etc are licenses for things you need permission to do.

Fair use are things you don't need permission to do, so you don't need to license those uses, so you aren't bound by sharealike or other clauses.

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@bensomers

Commercial impact wouldn't apply to the model, it would apply to the use of the model.

In Betamax, SCOTUS held that a tool doesn't infringe provided it can "sustain a substantial non-infringing use." There is no question that an LLM can sustain a substantial noninfringing use, e.g., analyzing police reports for New Orleans Innocence Project.

A user of an LLM might infringe copyright, but the LLM itself doesn't.

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@markuswerle @timoreilly @internetarchive @AuthorsAlliance

Neither of these apply. The first third of my essay explains in detail why model training isn't infringing, so I won't rehearse that here.

If it's not infringing, then it doesn't require a license to undertake.

If a user need not license a work to make some use of it, they need not abide by license terms, either.

You're having a labor issue, and you're trying to solve it with copyright, and it won't work well or at all.

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Pining for the fjords

pluralistic,
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@poppis Sometime! It's been a couple decades since my last Aula gig.

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@poppis ask a Finnish publisher!

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Subreddit

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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Algorithmic feeds are a twiddler's playground; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/11/for-you/

#Pluralistic

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pluralistic,
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Next Tuesday (May 14), I'm on a livecast about AI and enshittification with @timoreilly:

https://www.oreilly.com/live-events/tim-oreilly-and-cory-doctorow-on-enshittification-and-the-future-of-ai/0642572001651/

Wednesday (May 15), I'm in North Hollywood with Harry Shearer for a screening of Stephanie Kelton's Finding the Money:

https://www.laemmle.com/film/finding-money?date=2024-05-15

Friday (May 17), I'm in San Francisco at the @internetarchive to keynote the tenth anniversary of the @AuthorsAlliance:

https://www.authorsalliance.org/2024/03/15/authors-alliance-10th-anniversary-event-authorship-in-an-age-of-monopoly-and-moral-panics/

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pluralistic,
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@PRNE Thanks!

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Like Oscar Wilde, "I can resist anything except temptation," and my slow and halting journey to adulthood is really just me grappling with this fact, getting temptation out of my way before I can yield to it.

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https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/11/for-you/#the-algorithm-tm

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The ruins at dusk

#Tartu

The ruins of a medieval church, integrated into the University of Tartu museum, at dusk, surrounded by trees.
The ruins of a medieval church, integrated into the University of Tartu museum, at dusk, surrounded by trees.

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That doorman tho

#Tartu

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Punisher blub blub

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