After four years, the EU has finally approved the AI Act. The law entered into force on August 1 and takes effect over the next three years. [EU Journal] The AI Act squarely targets the US AI indus…
There are many good reasons to be critical of copyright, especially because it has been abused so much. Allowing big tech grifters unlimited access to everything everyone ever puts online because they promise to “democratize art” when all they really do it feed it into their spicy autocomplete engines which then flood the internet with AI sludge is not one of them.
Especially when the same fucking people then do a 180 and want protection for the shit their roided Clippy puked out.
In the last few years I’ve gone through an old lexicon, my grandfather’s book about building cabins, and I studied halfway through an old SolidWorks training book and I’ve been well surprised by how good the quality is. The detail they go into and the quality of illustrations gets very high.
It has left me with a feeling that the past generation were far better at making teaching material, Clippy isn’t the greatest example of that but he was a result of their generation’s thinking about how to teach. We’ve left a lot of it up to YouTube and other solo efforts, and we’ve completely resigned ourselves to accepting that the books required in higher education are more scam than they are instructive.
There are many good reasons to be critical of copyright, especially because it has been abused so much. Allowing big tech grifters unlimited access to everything everyone ever puts online because they promise to “democratize art” when all they really do it feed it into their spicy autocomplete engines which then flood the internet with AI sludge is not one of them.
Especially when the same fucking people then do a 180 and want protection for the shit their roided Clippy puked out.
I’m getting a mental image of a wood chipper: a word chipper.
idk the assets that came with my pirated word installs were better than today’s AI dreck
They were tailored, and surprisingly thorough.
In the last few years I’ve gone through an old lexicon, my grandfather’s book about building cabins, and I studied halfway through an old SolidWorks training book and I’ve been well surprised by how good the quality is. The detail they go into and the quality of illustrations gets very high.
It has left me with a feeling that the past generation were far better at making teaching material, Clippy isn’t the greatest example of that but he was a result of their generation’s thinking about how to teach. We’ve left a lot of it up to YouTube and other solo efforts, and we’ve completely resigned ourselves to accepting that the books required in higher education are more scam than they are instructive.