The judge in that case ruled the training wasn’t fair use for pirated books, which left them on the hook for potentially all revenue (likely a court determined percentage) that the model generated for them in addition to statutory damages. That is well north of 1.5 billion.

The model doesn’t stream out anyone’s content though. The article mentions that the plaintiffs have provided no examples of a prompt that creates anything substantial.

Streaming a lossy compression would generally be infringement, but there is definitely a point where it becomes not infringement if it’s lossy enough.

What a model generally stores, is factual information that isn’t copyright in the first place. It’s storing word counts, sentence lengths, sentiment analysis, and so on.

Arguing that training models isn’t fair use us going to be a massive uphill battle, it’s basically reading the book but with a computer. It’s not actually a big deal to people, unless you hold the copyright to a ton of works and want to get a percentage of all the AI income these companies have made.

Torrenting the books is likely absolutely copyright infringement, but that has relatively low payout compared to the money these companies are getting for their models. The training being fair use means that rights holders can’t try to take any money from the model’s use. The statutory limits for infringement even at per work levels aren’t significant compared to the legal cost of proving it happened.

Xbox 360 emulation is getting better, so it would be playable on pc.

The Saturn V rocket was also massive overkill on power. It had about 50% more thrust than a falcon heavy that is currently being used for planned moon missions.

These studies aren’t very useful without considering the base rate. From Google, the lifetime risk for men for pancreatic cancer is about 1.8% (1.7% for women). the article said vegetarians had 21% less chance, which means it’s a 1.4% chance.

To me this smells like a study with a lot of data massaging to get something publishable.

Apart from semi standard bug fix and texture mods.

Try the ordinator mod for a complete overhaul of skill trees to be a lot more interesting. It also makes playing a caster a lot more interesting compared to the vanilla experience. You probably also want the uncapper mod to customize the amount of perks you get per level.

Personally I also use material chest mods that are basically cheats to level crafting skills, I’m not interested in grinding them out multiple times. Up to you if you want to use them to gear yourself as well or not.

If you want the game to feel truly different, you need to change your play style as well. Playing a dual wielding berserker is a lot different than a stealth archer.

I had some fun playing slightly newer titles with an action replay to cut down on the grind and it really helped.

MMO is a one and done genre. You never match the original high.

Congress gave the president the power to wage an unlimited amount of war so long as troops are removed by the 90 day mark. Even then if troops are gone before the court rules, it doesn’t matter either, as was ruled under Clinton.

I’m already at the point I don’t really need to buy anymore games, and my library isn’t even that old or impressive. Add emulation and it’s even harder to justify purchases.

One of the most common is that people were stupid in the past. Humans have been roughly the same intelligence across history. There was lack of technology and knowledge, but ancient people were far more intelligent than many give them credit for.

Feudalism was essentially slavery without the formal ownership.

The US would bomb the factories before the Chinese military could get close to them.

I’d say it’s most likely some form of smuggling that got caught up in the increased tension.

Even then the legal requirement is about working in the companies interest, not strictly get more profit. It’s become shorthand to just say profit, because it’s a simple thing to point at.

I see said the blind man, as he picked up the hammer and saw.

I absolutely hated my first experience with modern dual stick controls. It felt so wrong compared to GoldenEye.

Lego is the best of the blocks/bricks. Nothing else is close in quality.

For food safety standards probably. For an otherwise healthy person it’s probably good enough.