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Cake day: June 23rd, 2023

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  • declared that the White House would “smell like curry” if Vice President Kamala Harris were to win in November,

    I can’t be the only one who thinks that would be a welcome development. More Asian dishes in the White House would be fantastic. Why does the right hate Asian food? 🤔

    I say this a white American, “What’s wrong with curry‽”

    I’ll come out and say it: If you elect this white guy (me) as president I would make the White House smell like curry from time to time 🍛

    Wait: Do they expect me to eat like some British dude during WW2‽ I mean, that’s how the British are still eating (rose water? No thank you!) but still…

    Maybe those on the right need a DEI food program.





  • Just a point of clarification: Copyright is about the right of distribution. So yes, a company can just “download the Internet”, store it, and do whatever TF they want with it as long as they don’t distribute it.

    That the key: Distribution. That’s why no one gets sued for downloading. They only ever get sued for uploading. Furthermore, the damages (if found guilty) are based on the number of copies that get distributed. It’s because copyright law hasn’t been updated in decades and 99% of it predates computers (especially all the important case law).

    What these lawsuits against OpenAI are claiming is that OpenAI is making a derivative work of the authors/owners works. Which is kinda what’s going on but also not really. Let’s say that someone asks ChatGPT to write a few paragraphs of something in the style of Stephen King… His “style” isn’t even cooyrightable so as long as it didn’t copy his works word-for-word is it even a derivative? No one knows. It’s never been litigated before.

    My guess: No. It’s not going to count as a derivative work. Because it’s no different than a human reading all his books and performing the same, perfectly legal function.