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Comment · 14 days ago
Lettuce and oats are some other foods.

The overcrowding can also allow bird flu to spread more easily.

Comment · 1 month ago
They are too big to fail, if these companies were to be sanctioned in a way that slows them down, major components of the economy would collapse.
Comment · 1 month ago
The difference between

"We found aliens!"

And

"Aliens are out there!"

Comment · 1 month ago
Maybe they are talking about physical mandalas?
Comment · 1 month ago
Yeah, they're always leaving the Martians out!
Comment · 1 month ago
Why doesn't someone just try to measure this next time!?
Comment · 1 month ago
Very much like map CD-rom updates, I think a lot of people wouldn't mind paying per-update for these models, and would understand the implications. That is, if there weren't so many open models available.
Comment · 1 month ago
Another example was the doc for GPT-5, which had all its graphs messed up, but they said it was human error rather than AI.
Comment · 1 month ago
If the training toggle is switched on, maybe OpenAI doesn't consider a chat to be private? Therefore making this a 'safe' statement.
Comment · 1 month ago
Exactly, and right now we have the worst of both worlds with companies blatantly ignoring copyright, but individuals prosecuted for violating it.
Comment · 2 months ago
I think there are better funding models than the precarity of copyright-dependent publishing.
Comment · 2 months ago
Not at all. You're presuming that nobody can be taken off this hypothetical salary once they're on it, and that they would be placed on it indiscriminately.

Simple safeguards are already in practice in today's economy to prevent such circumstances.

Comment · 2 months ago
Right, that was worded too universally, but this is what I mean: royalties here are supplementary to a salary, not a wage in themselves. The research was funded before publication.
Comment · 2 months ago
As with academics, inventors and artists should be paid for their labour long-term, not for their result.
Comment · 2 months ago
Academics don't collect any royalties, they're paid prior to publication, not for selling copies of books.

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