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One of the constant refrains I hear in defense of imitative AI systems is that they democratize creativity and should therefore be allowed regardless of the implications for artists and society. �...
by angryea
on Thu Jan 04, 2024 at 05:00 AM PST
with 30 Recommends
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👉 Get signed Tom the Dancing Bug books with the new SIGNED BOOK COMBO deal! Info here . And/or get the new On the Trail of Tom the Dancing Bug book signed WITH a hand-drawn illustration!
by RubenBolling
on Thu Jan 04, 2024 at 04:50 AM PST
with 273 Recommends
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BOOK NEWS
Book banning continues to be a thing around the country, with school districts and libraries pulling books, and people pushing back with some success in the courts. One that caught my ...
by DebtorsPrison
on Tue Jan 02, 2024 at 06:00 PM PST
with 26 Recommends
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Fair use is famously whatever a court says fair use is after you have spent all your money on lawyers, so I fully expect that the Copyright Office will end up allowing the AI companies to, at a minimum, get away with taking material from writers and...
by angryea
on Tue Nov 07, 2023 at 04:59 AM PST
with 13 Recommends
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Since a US district judge ruled that AI art was not copyright-able (the ruling is a touch more complex than that, but let that go for the moment since the practical effect is to ban copyright on AI created art.), people who wish to replace paying...
by angryea
on Mon Sep 25, 2023 at 05:00 AM PDT
with 28 Recommends
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BOOK NEWS
Censorship, book banning and AI copyright piracy continue to be big topics in the publishing world. In this depressing story from the Tallahassee Democrat , there is anecdotal evidence ...
by DebtorsPrison
on Tue Aug 08, 2023 at 07:00 PM PDT
with 19 Recommends
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Good evening, all. I know, I know, I’ve been very lax about getting a new book review up each week. My schedule isn’t making it easy. I do hope to be posting reviews again soon, and thank you ...
by DebtorsPrison
on Tue Mar 28, 2023 at 07:00 PM PDT
with 19 Recommends
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So, we have all heard�about Chat GPT, the computer AI software that is supposed to produce original compositions about topics that you prompt it for. The US Copyright Office has recently issued its ...
by Lenny Flank
on Wed Mar 01, 2023 at 12:20 PM PST
with 17 Recommends
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Not only did CNET shadily pass off AI generated text as staff written material, that material seems to have been a plagiarist as well: Now, a fresh development may make efforts to spin the ...
by angryea
on Tue Jan 24, 2023 at 05:00 AM PST
with 54 Recommends
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by RubenBolling
on Thu Jan 12, 2023 at 04:50 AM PST
with 110 Recommends
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UPDATE: Monday, Jan 9, 2023 · 11:57:31 PM +00:00 · Walter Einenkel Adding the letter Dr. Dre’s attorney sent to Marjorie Taylor Greene. It includes some gems like “We’re writing because we think an actual lawmaker should be making laws not breaking...
by Walter Einenkel
on Mon Jan 09, 2023 at 02:54 PM PST
with 184 Recommends
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For a long time now, the right wing of the country has relied on classic propaganda tools of doublespeak and doublethink to sell the very transparent corruption of their philosophies. One of the many ways they have created the false narrative that they...
by Walter Einenkel
on Mon Jan 09, 2023 at 10:06 AM PST
with 34 Recommends
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Guest Host Nicole Sandler with authors Cory Doctorow, Rebecca Giblin...
It's NICOLE SANDLER, filling in again for Brad and Desi on the BradCast . [ Audio link to full show is posted below this ...
by TheBradBlog
on Fri Oct 07, 2022 at 04:05 PM PDT
with 3 Recommends
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However, � the Wall Street Journal reports � that when FBI agents searched the resort ...
by ca cokz
on Tue Aug 23, 2022 at 04:15 PM PDT
with 20 Recommends
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Trump’s newest endeavor, Truth Social, a Twitter rip-off that promises to figure out ways to take gullible MAGA information and sell it to the highest bidder, launched this President’s Day weekend. According to the Daily Beast, the app went “live”...
by Walter Einenkel
on Tue Feb 22, 2022 at 11:21 AM PST
with 101 Recommends
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"God bless Tom the Dancing Bug! Funny, ...
by RubenBolling
on Thu Jan 13, 2022 at 04:50 AM PST
with 56 Recommends
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Today is day 151 of the Gregorian Calendar year, Sweetmorn, Confusion 5, 3187 YOLD (discordian) And let us not forget 13.0.8.10.3 mlc (the Mayan Long Count)
by enhydra lutris
on Mon May 31, 2021 at 06:06 AM PDT
with 7 Recommends
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YOU can buy the two new Tom the Dancing Bug books, Tom the Dancing Bug: Into the Trumpverse , and The Super-Fun-Pak Comix Reader ! Information here .
"I am a HUGE fan of Tom the Dancing Bug! It ...
by RubenBolling
on Thu Feb 11, 2021 at 04:50 AM PST
with 75 Recommends
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In normal times, I think this should have been posted on or about New Year’s Day, but these are not “Normal Times”. So how about a belated wrap-up of a few works from 1925 that entered the Public Domain 1/1/2021? Don’t mind if I do . . . Public...
by Dead Eyed Suburbanite
on Wed Jan 20, 2021 at 08:18 PM PST
with 7 Recommends
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by Tilman
on Sat Jan 09, 2021 at 04:15 PM PST
with 0 Recommends
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