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abhibeckert

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  • We Asked A.I. to Create the Joker. It Generated a Copyrighted Image.

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  • Humans can get pretty close to perfect recall with enough practice - show a human that exact joker image hundreds of thousands of times, they're going to be able to remember every detail.

    That's what happened here - the example images weren't just in the training set once, they are in the training set over and over and over again across hundreds of thousands of websites.

    If someone wants these images nobody is going to use AI to access it - they'll just do a google image search. There is no way Warner Brothers is harmed in any way by this, which is a strong fair use defence.

  • We Asked A.I. to Create the Joker. It Generated a Copyrighted Image.

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  • Do Training weights have the data?

    The answer to that question is extensively documented by thousands of research papers - it's not up for debate.

  • We Asked A.I. to Create the Joker. It Generated a Copyrighted Image.

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  • But where is the infringement?

    This NYT article includes the same several copyrighted images and they surely haven't paid any license. It's obviously fair use in both cases and NYT's claim that "it might not be fair use" is just ridiculous.

    Worse, the NYT also includes exact copies of the images, while the AI ones are just very close to the original. That's like the difference between uploading a video of yourself playing a Taylor Swift cover and actually uploading one of Taylor Swift's own music videos to YouTube.

    Even worse the NYT intentionally distributed the copyrighted images, while Midjourney did so unintentionally and specifically states it's a breach of their terms of service. Your account might be banned if you're caught using these prompts.

  • Apple's New Fees Will Kill Free Apps

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  • It is miss-leading. You don't pay any money unless more than 2% of the EU population uses your app (there's about 50 million people in the EU who own an iPhone, and you need a million of those people to run your app to pay this fee).

    If you have that many users, and zero income, then all you need to do is register as a non profit - then Apple will exempt your app entirely from the fees.

    Every mass market truly free app that I can think of is already run by a non profit - so most don't have to do anything at all.

  • Apple's New Fees Will Kill Free Apps

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  • Apple isn't even required to comply with these new laws yet - so wishing the EU to enforce the rules now is pretty unrealisitc.

  • Apple says third-party app marketplace creators must have €1,000,000 'letter of credit'

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  • Non-Profits are exempt and nearly all large open source projects are non-profits. Small apps are also exempt - the 50c fee only applies if at least 2% of people in the EU use your app.

    ... however it seems like these exemptions might not apply to third party app stores for some reason.

  • Apple says third-party app marketplace creators must have €1,000,000 'letter of credit'

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  • GPL is also free for commercial use... all open source licenses are. The rendering engines used by Safari (and Chrome/Edge) are GPL.

  • Apple announces support for alternative app marketplaces, web browser engines in the EU with iOS 17.4

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  • A popular FOSS store like f-droid would have to cough up thousands of Euros.

    They're probably not big enough. This only applies to apps that are on 2% of all iPhones in the EU. It also doesn't apply to non-profits. If f-droid is that big, they probably should be a non-profit.

  • Apple announces support for alternative app marketplaces, web browser engines in the EU with iOS 17.4

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  • Sure but they're also sold secondhand. Also people can be born in one country, but move to live in another one... bringing their devices with them. Apple's DRM can't be tied to hardware.

    Also - what if a user doesn't have an account with Apple at all? How can Apple know what country they're from? Signing up for an Apple ID is optional when you setup an iPhone - you only really need one to access the App Store and there are now alternative methods available to install apps in the EU.

    There are different antennas on different devices, but all of them generally work everywhere in the world - it worst your bandwidth might be a bit lower.

  • Apple announces support for alternative app marketplaces, web browser engines in the EU with iOS 17.4

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  • Apple announces support for alternative app marketplaces, web browser engines in the EU with iOS 17.4

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  • If Apple is fined for breaking these rules - the fine would be $80 billion. That would be two thirds of Apple's annual global net profits or $200 for every citizen in the EU.

    It wouldn't bankrupt the company, but it would definitely hurt and they don't want to pay that.

    Their OS runs on exactly 2 devices (iPhone and iPad) from 1 manufacturer

    It runs on the primary device for over a billion people. Which means supporting it, for app developers, isn't really optional at all assuming you want your app to be available to all users.

    This isn't about users, it's about EU based businesses. If you run a hotel for example, you need to be on iOS with some kind of app (obviously it could be a web app).

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  • Either this is complete bullshit or HP is over-engineering

    It's not bullshit. Wether or not it's "over-engineered" is debatable... a lot of seemingly simple technology is crazy complicated these days.

    For example some USB-C cables are a simple cable with four pins soldered to four wires and a bit of plastic so they don't touch. Others have over 20 wires, most of them individually shielded (which means a lot more wire and a lot more plastic separating them) with incredibly complex circuit boards to detect and counteract electromagnetic interference to eliminate cross talk between those 20 wires (because even with shielding, some of the signal on one wire still leaks out onto the ones next to them).

    Is USB-C over engineered? That depends if you're using it to charge your phone or to connect your laptop to an external screen/wired internet connection/power/etc. In the latter case, not over engineered at all.

    The circuitry on printer cartridges don't just do DRM, they're also part of the calibration process to output accurate colours. Total overkill to print a hard copy of a payment receipt for your printer warranty... but printing a photo? I can get behind the over-engineering for that.

  • A ‘Shocking’ Amount of the Web Is Already AI-Translated Trash, Scientists Determine

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  • But free is free so 🤷

    The free ones suck but some of the paid ones are pretty good.

    I was recently tasked with translating an auto-biography a 90 year old relative wrote, and the results were really good. I don't speak their language very well, and they don't speak mine very well either. I was quoted $10,000 by a professional human translation service.

    OpenAI, for comparison, would charge about five bucks with their most expensive model. And the results are a lot better than a free translation. Is it better than a human? No - but it's pretty close.

  • HP CEO says customers who don't use the company's supplies are "bad investments"

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  • You say that like it's a bad thing?

    When I buy a jar of peanut butter, if I have a good experience eating it I'm going to buy that brand again. "Investing" in your customers is business speak for making sure your customers have a good experience.

    The disconnect here is HP doesn't seem themselves as being in the "printer" business. They see themselves as being in the ink/paper/repairs business... and they advertise their printers as costing 8.6 cents per page. If you're happy to pay that much, then I'd argue HP probably is a good choice.

    Personally I use a basic Brother laser printer, with cheap paper and cheap toner it comes in at around 1 cent per page. When I need higher quality, I get it printed by a professional printer - those cost quite a bit more than HP's pricing but I don't do it often and it's much higher quality than any (affordable) HP printer.

  • Laptop keyboard cover/mousepad

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  • Sounds like a terrible idea - mouse pads get dirty, on both sides, and you'll be transferring that dirt to the screen.

    There's really no safe way to clean a laptop screen - they generally have anti-reflective coatings which will be worn down when you clean them, and it won't wear evenly it will be worse where you've cleaned off a particularly bad smudge. I try to be as careful as I can but still all my old laptop screens are pretty bad by the time I upgrade and I feel like your proposed idea would make that even worse.

    What you can buy is a laptop bag/sleeve that doubles as a mouse pad. Some of them can also lift the screen up high for better ergonomics - though then you'd also need a portable keyboard as you definitely don't want that up high if you're worried about ergonomics (I recommend the Nuphy Air if you're interested in a good portable keyboard).

  • Online travel agent allows customers to filter out Boeing 737 Max planes

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  • Presumably it only shows models that actually fly the route you're trying to book.

    There aren't many Max 9's in the world, it's a brand new model. Also in some countries the model is not allowed to fly with passengers on board right now.

  • British inventor seeks to take $18bn bite out of Apple in bitter patent war

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  • The courts generally don't like it when you run two identical lawsuits at the same time - it's a massive waste of limited tax payer funded resources. They would've likely postponed a hypothetical amazon case indefinitely until after the lawsuit against Apple had concluded (which hasn't happened yet, it's still in the appeals process).

    After his case with Apple is over, if he wins that case, then he can privately talk to Amazon and try to reach a settlement that doesn't involve any court cases.

  • British inventor seeks to take $18bn bite out of Apple in bitter patent war

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  • What am I missing?

    The patent in question, if it's valid, would have expired several years ago. The fact that it's everyday technology today is pretty normal considering how fast technology advances. Ordinary toilet rolls were also a patented invention and there's nothing in the law that says a patent has to a complicated solution to a problem.

    iTunes was the first shipping product that ever actually did what's described in the patent... and the person who ran the iTunes department that "invented" this feature was previously a subcontractor working for the guy who holds the patent - he was literally paid to implement what the patent described and then Apple poached him and he continued the work at his new job without any patent license.

    I don't support patents and never will, but if there was ever a case for clear infringement then this is it. It's already been to court and apple was found guilty of patent infringement... only to have an appeals court overturn the decision in pretty questionable circumstances.

  • Scientists Use WiFi to See Through People's Walls

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  • Government tends to be ahead of the curve.

    I dunno what world you're living in, but I live in a world where police still do nearly all their work with pencil and paper and if you want to talk to a police officer, no you can't talk to them on the phone or send an email. You'll have to have a meeting face to face.