Xbox gave their customers credit/ vouchers after an early price drop. It would be even easier to do so now that people have online accounts.

That’s like saying copyright doesn’t work. If a human can see it a human can copy it

Not really. I’ve never been to a shareholder meeting and never will. I buy stocks to turn a profit from dividends and appreciation not to get a chance to micromanage the company.

I’m in a country without official support and I can access the store without issue. I live in Berverly Hills 90210 as far as Playstation is concerned.

It looks like I’m in the same boat. GTA VI id the only game of this generation to get my attention and I’m not paying $600 to play it. I’ll just borrow a friend’s console and then go back to sitting this one out.

Why does the article say the EU can’t do anything when this is a literal monopoly? Yes we can’t force Playstation to keep selling disks but forcing them to allow other storefronts on the system sounds very achievable to me.

Plus it only exists on a screen; a canvas Monet never touched. They changed the context and get surprised that people didn’t ignore the change in context.

Even when we can’t identify the author of a work we still value the fact that a human produced it.

Someone has to be first

It looks like it’s 10,000 years away from being trusted with anything. The number of times it said, “I think this person is bullshitting me” and then did what it was asked anyway was rediculous.

I thought they were going to require age verification for VPNs but their demand is even more stupid. They want porn sites to recognise when someone is using a VPN and then block their access if they’re in Wisconsin. I want this law to pass now so that they can look stupid in front of more people.

If you violate a court order in my country you get sent to prison. China is so progressive that you aren’t even put under house arrest for the same offense.

The ABC (Australian public broadcaster) did a thorough explainer debunking many of the myths around it recently.

Audio; https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/if-youre-listening/the-truth-about-chinas-social-credit-scores/106029740

Video; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps0Si4FhOPM

Scaffolding was set up for renovations and the fire was able to spread quickly by bypassing all the fire breaks that are built into high rises and shooting up the outside. Hong Kong is unique in its use of bamboo scaffolding, which is obviously more flammable than steel.

A recent winner of the Akutagawa prize in Japan said she used chatbots to write around 5% of her novel so they’re already proving useful.

A recent winner of the Akutagawa prize in Japan said she used chatbots to write around 5% of her novel.

After 33-year-old writer Rie Kudan won the Akutagawa Prize last week, she told reporters that a small portion of her book, Tokyo-to Dojo-to (Tokyo Sympathy Tower), was lifted verbatim from ChatGPT.

“This is a novel written by making full use of a generative A.I.,” Kudan said in her acceptance speech, according to the Japan Times’ Thu-Huong Ha. “Probably about 5 percent of the whole text is written directly from the generative A.I. I would like to work well with them to express my creativity.” https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-award-winning-japanese-novel-was-written-partly-by-chatgpt-180983641/

What about publishing a collection of short stories, some of which have human authors and others from LLMs. You could call it, “2 truths and an AI”.

Wouldn’t it be easier to upgrade the hardware so it can keep up with updates? The article mentioned a law that requires manufacturers to offer repairs and recalls for 15 years after sale. That could be expanded to include computer hardware.

Is meta the one that downloaded all the books from anna’s archive?

Because data centers are being built all over the place. Californian almonds are only being grown in California.

Thanks for sharing. It was interesting to learn something new.