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Netanyahu says he has ‘interesting intel’ on Iran’s uranium rt.com/news/620296-netanyahu-c… Israel knows where Tehran has moved its enriched material, according to the prime minister Read Full Article at RT.com #news #press
Here's one where the FC Dallas (hardly an international powerhouse club) under-15 boys beat the mighty US Women's national team 5-2 in a 2017 scrimmage:
J'ai lu sa définition dans un bouquin d'Agamben, sur le goût, et c'est pas faux. De toute façon, tout ce qui ressemble à une pensée argumentée, réfléchie et un peu distanciée inquiète, sinon exaspère la horde au pouvoir.
"The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility."
-- John A. Fisher [Lord John Arbutnoth Fisher of Kilverstone] (1841-1920) English first sea Lord of Admiralty and writer Source: Macaulay "Essay on Lord Nugent's Memorials of Hampden"
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At the Living Planet Symposium, attendees have been hearing how ESA’s Next Generation Gravity Mission could provide the first opportunity to directly track a vital ocean circulation system that warms our planet – but is now weakening, risking a possi…
As NASA prepares for its Artemis II mission, researchers at the agency’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland are collaborating with The Australian National University (ANU) to prove inventive, cost-saving laser communications technologies in the lunar environment. Communicating in space usually relies on radio waves, but NASA is exploring laser, or optical, communications, which can send […]
As NASA prepares for Artemis II, Glenn Research Center in Cleveland is collaborating with The Australian National University on a lunar laser communications test.
#amman #jordan 📢 The Ministry of Foreign and Expatriates Affairs strongly denounced the terrorist attacks against Palestinians by settlers, including the most recent one that killed 🕯️ three Palestinians and injured others in the village of Kafr Malik, east of #ramallah
🔹 The Ministry blames these attacks on Israel, the occupying force
Amman, June 26 (Petra)-- The Ministry of Foreign and Expatriates Affairs strongly denounced the terrorist attacks against Palestinians by settlers, ...
Ένοχος κρίθηκε ο αστυνομικός για το trafficking στην Ηλιούπολη που αποκαλύφθηκε τον Ιούλιο του 2021 από μία 19χρονη, με το δικαστήριο ωστόσο να αποφασίζει την ομόφωνη καταδίκη του για εμπορία…
Every time I turn on the television, I’m waiting for the announcement that Trump is going to require two-way televisions from every household. Wait for it. #1984
Well they did have cameras briefly but most of them were removed due to lack consumer demand. Microphones, yes. And that’s probably a problem enough. But Trump could just demand we install USB cameras on every set or face immediate disappearing.
"All of us have heard this term "preventive war" since the earliest days of Hitler. ... A preventive war, to my mind, is an impossibility today. How could you have one if one of its features would be several cities lying in ruins, several cities where many, many thousands of people would be dead and injured and mangled, the transportation systems destroyed, sanitation implements and systems all gone? That isn't preventive war; that is war. ... I don't believe…
A leaked Pentagon assessment contradicts Donald Trump’s claims of crippling Iran's nuclear program, revealing minimal damage from US strikes and prompting a hostile outburst against CNN journalist Natasha Bertrand.
@Richard nah. And this one is just sort of hand held size. I am going to buy myself a larger one, in the 18” x 24” range that I can hang. This one I just have sitting on top of my cubicle wall.
“We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.”
~ General Omar Bradley (1893-1981) Five Star General of the US Army, headed the Veterans Administration, Chief of Staff of the United States Army, first Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
"We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.
"That’s why your old tricks have stopped working, you know: all you have is words. We have truth, facts and morality on our side, and you have a bunch of words." caitlinjohnst.one/p/dear-israe…
Gonna make a food delivery service called DoorFash and force everyone that receives a delivery to recite the 14 words or they'll get called a jew and be kicked out of the movement ™️
Gonna make a food delivery service called DoorFash and force everyone that receives a delivery to recite the 14 words or they'll get called a jew and be kicked out of the movement ™️
>watch a deep analysis about Midsommar >the film director essentially wanted to make a "Sweden bad" film depicting swedes and their traditions as terrible and barbaric
>bro check out this new asian horror film company. They just post these hyper realistic shorts. Youll love it bro >umm sui...that guy just got eviscerated by an industrial lathe... >yeah wasnt it GRAPHIC! >ummm, they really have an odd take on horror in china. But the special effects are really good i guess.
#OtD 26 Jun 1981 workers at St Mary's Hospital in Harrow Road, London, occupied their workplace and took control of it in protest at government plans to cut 100 beds stories.workingclasshistory.co…
Governments are more or less elected by the people. Who elects union members other than themselves? What right do they have to oppose government decrees? #unions #aggression #violence
The Global North Lives Off Intellectual Rents: The Twenty-Sixth Newsletter (2025)
Despite rapid technological innovations, Global South countries remain trapped in Global North-dominated intellectual property regimes designed to extract endless rents through patents and licensing fees– stripping them of wealth and stunting their development.
Despite the growing technological and industrial capacity of countries in the Global South, countries and corporations in the Global North continue to own intellectual property patents on key products, locking the South into indefinite patent payment regimes. These include patent payments for pharmaceuticals, digital technologies (such as licensing fees for software and telecommunications infrastructure), and agricultural goods (such as genetically modified seeds, fertilisers, pesticides, and equipment). Scientific and technological advances have indeed accelerated in the Global South, with several countries – particularly in Asia – developing sophisticated high-speed rail, green technologies, and telecommunications infrastructure. Yet even in these sectors, most countries continue to pay large rents to Global North firms that own patents on key components.
There are five sectors where the imbalance in patent-related payments is most severe (in other words, where Global South countries pay significantly more in royalties and licensing fees than they receive in return):
Pharmaceuticals. Drug patents are largely owned by firms based in Europe, Japan, and the United States. A recent example of the high price of access to essential medical technologies was the cost of importing mRNA vaccines during the COVID-19 pandemic. Several countries in the Global South, such as South Africa and India, faced delays and inflated costs in vaccine procurement due to patent restrictions and limited technology transfer. (South Africa eventually opted to purchase vaccines from India’s generic producers – such as Cipla and the Serum Institute – which saved the country approximately $133 million over three years.)
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). Every component of ICTs – from software and hardware to semiconductors and mobile networks – costs Global South countries a king’s ransom. This is not only because of the price of the physical products themselves, but also because of the high licensing fees for the underlying technologies, which are often controlled by exclusive patent pools (consortia of firms that jointly manage and license essential patents).
Despite rapid technological innovations, Global South countries remain trapped in Global North-dominated intellectual property regimes designed to extract endless rents through patents and licensing fees– stripping them of wealth and stunting their d…
A couple of months ago I bought the Nanoleaf Pegboard Desk Dock, the latest and greatest in USB-hub-with-RGB-LEDs-and-hooks-for-gadgets technology. This invention unfortunately only supports the real gamer operating systems of Windows and macOS, which necessitated the development of a Linux driver.
Over the past few posts I’ve set up a Windows VM with USB passthrough, and attempted to reverse-engineer the official drivers, As I was doing that, I also thought I’d message the vendor and ask them if they could share any specifications or docs regarding their protocol. To my surprise, Nanoleaf tech support responded to me within 4 hours, with a full description of the protocol that’s used both by the Desk Dock as well as their RGB strips. The docs mostly confirmed what I had already discovered independently, but there were a couple of other minor features as well (like power and brightness management) that I did not know about, which was helpful.
Alarm puller: "The reason why heart disease and cancer and obesity and diabetes are bigger in the black community is because of the stress we carry from having to deal with being called the N-word directly or indirectly every day." minds.com/newsfeed/17849275631…
...d obesity and diabetes are bigger in the black community is because of the stress we carry from having to deal with being called the N-word directly or indirectly every day.". Subscribe to @Fret...
Sara Duterte, Vice President of Philippines, spoke to RT to discuss the current political situation in the country, US and Philippine military scientists in Southeast Asia, the arrest of her father Ro...
The Pretty Things – S. F. Sorrow (1968) This is S. F. Sorrow by The Pretty Things, released December 1968 on Columbia UK. Often cited as the first full rock opera, it tells the life story of Sebastian F Sorrow through fuzz-soaked psych, Mellotron swirls, and proto prog twists. #music Video
This is S. F. Sorrow by The Pretty Things, released December 1968 on Columbia UK. Often cited as the first full rock opera, it tells the life story of Sebas...
🔔 Update: #lebanon - The Ministry of Public Health's Emergency Operations Center issued a communique this afternoon, announcing that the man who was injured by an Israeli drone that targeted his motorcycle in the town of Beit Lif in Bint Jbeil District, died in hospital after suffering severe injury
A good press conference by Pete Hegseth and Chairman of Joint Chiefs describing the mission and what it took for the pilots, etc, and berates media for its awful reporting.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will hold a major press conference as announced by President Trump on Truth Social.Watch LIVE on RSBN starting at 7:45 am EDT ...
Mamdani dooms New York City, The Padilla cry fest, Trump strikes Iran and conservatives fail to give him the benefit of the doubt. The View and Whoopi's ins...
#OtD 26 Jun 2021 St Ann's church and Chopaka church in Similkameen First Nations land in Canada were burned down. Several churches were set on fire after discoveries of Indigenous children who had been buried in unmarked graves in church-run schools stories.workingclasshistory.co…
All for #militarism. Nothing for the social needs. This is the ghost that will erase all the well-being of working class: militarism. #Warmongers #FuckWarmongers #Eupol
Every hour you read something more warmongering than the previous. Everyday they say openly that they take our money to give em to a bunch of capitalists and we, the working class, just standing there like hypnotized waiting for the military call to be meat for their profits. #Warmongers #FuckWarmongers #Eupol #USA #Uspol #ArmsIndustry #ClassWar #Europe is seeing a dramatic boost in defense budgets, driven by both long-standing pressure from Washington and the continent’s own reaction to #Russia ’s full-scale invasion of #Ukraine. That promises a glut of military contracts for weapons-makers in Europe as well as in the U.S., South Korea and elsewhere. ...The enormous scale of new defense spending — the European Commission estimates that the bloc’s members will need to spend €500 billion on defense over the next decade — still means there will be a lot of money available for European defense firms. That said, the early winner of Europe’s defense buildup is likely to be the U.S.
Organizations, activists, political and material collectives who run for environmental issues, #ClimateCrisis etc. should take action to fight #warmongers. They openly say (everywhere, not just in #EuropeanUnion) that they must spend the money of #workingclass (you remember that big companies have less taxes than us?) for armaments and to leave the (capitalist) green transition aside. Means they don't care at all about the destruction war industry and their inevitable wars produce. Tusk explains better.
«Making references to Russia's full-scale invasion of #Ukraine and Belarus's campaign of instrumentalised migration, which his country has experienced firsthand, Tusk implored EU states to address security "seriously" and be "flexible" and "creative" to design novel ways to finance the necessary boost in military expenditure.» «"I'll be honest: we shouldn't really care too much about what method we adopt to finance pan-#European defence projects," he told lawmakers in #Strasbourg.» «In the prime minister's view, "some" of the environmental regulations that the #EU has introduced in the past five years are responsible for the "prohibitively" high #energy prices. - Energy bills began rising in 2022 when the market hit record-high levels in reaction to #Russia 's manipulation of gas supplies.»
In a speech before the European Parliament, Donald Tusk called for a major boost in Europe's defence spending and a "critical review" of the Green Deal.
#Warmongers of #EU-US-NATO as a chorus use false arguments to convince european population that is right to suffer for a supposed threat. The lies are huge; as their profits. The more the industrial monopolies of northern Europe fall (3 years now) the more they push for armaments. The reason? Their stuck industries (e.g. vehicles) to turn into defence equipment industries. In the end all this mess imposed by Northern European Capital will be paid by the working class of Europe, both by the gigantic cut in spending on social needs, as well as by funding the industrialists through the defence industry. The latter, you know, do not pay the same taxes paid by the workers... todon.nl/@smaurizi@mastodon.so… #FuckWarmongers
The poor must pay for the war so the rich can profit from it. And those who believe the rich are their friends spout that message until they inevitably learn that they aren't.
There is no need to provide a worse government just to provide for defense. Do not fall for bullshit like this from conservatives. Yes, there might be some belt-tightening, but that does not magically change trickle-on/austerity economics from a bad idea into a good idea.
What. A. Comeback. After crashing in his race run in 2024, @jacksongoldstone6453 took exactly one year to recover, come back, and get the best redemption ru...
It just blows me away to have a device I spent less than $50 on total, that can play every game from so many systems, with extra features like save states.
The world is preoccupied while Gaza is being annihilated off-screen.The massacres continue100 martyrs &hundreds wounded today. A day that reminds us of the early days of aggression. Every hour since dawn, there has been a massacre An urgent call to donate blood. An urgent call to provide hospital beds for the wounded.An urgent call to bring in medical supplies and infant formula.An urgent call to deliver fuel to hospital An urgent call do not forget Gaza. Help please 🙏 gofund.me/d01c555b
I understand how the US president would fuck up them Ayatollahs a bit to show resolve when an opportunity presents itself but why the fuck does Trump have to suck bibi's balls dry while he's at it? I don't fuckin' get it
[#ÀlairLibre 📺] Handicap: «Toute la société est validiste»
L’année 2025 marque l’anniversaire de plusieurs lois sur le #handicap mais les droits des personnes concernées restent bafoués. Travail, école, espaces publics, accès aux droits: dans «À l’air libre», nos invités détaillent la façon dont le #validisme imprègne les structures de notre société.
Please welcome on Mastodon the @esoastronomy European Southern Observatory (ESO), the European organization that builds and operates large, advanced ground-based observatories for research in astronomy and astrophysics.
In this episode of Centre Stage, our guest is Dr Gabor Mate, a retired physician, author and Holocaust survivor who has written extensively on trauma and child development, as well as Israel and Palestine.
Mate talks about the colonial foundations of Zionism, how living under it has traumatised Palestinians and the ways mainstream media distorts the realities on the ground in Gaza.
In this episode of Centre Stage, our guest is Dr Gabor Mate, a retired physician, author and Holocaust survivor who has written extensively on trauma and chi...
Con una trayectoria que pasa por El Periódico, El Mundo y La Vanguardia, fue un referente en el género de la entrevista y la crónica de ambiente y publicó numerosos libros
Con una trayectoria que pasa por El Periódico, El Mundo y La Vanguardia, fue un referente en el género de la entrevista y la crónica de ambiente y publicó numerosos libros
El periodista y escritor Arturo San Agustín (Barcelona, 1949) ha fallecido durante la mañana de hoy a los 76 años, según ha informado a primera hora La Vanguardia, uno de los periódicos que habían acogido sus crónicas y artículos de opinión y con el que más asiduamente colaboro en esta última etapa de su vida profesional.
Antes había sido una figura frecuente primero en El Periódico, desde donde proyectó su mirada crítica de la realidad catalana y barcelonesa, y después en el diario El Mundo. Junto a su faceta periodística, en la que se reveló un maestro de las entrevistas, desarrolló otra importante como escritor muy vinculado a temas como el Fútbol Club Barcelona, del que era un gran seguidor, y el Vaticano.
Destacan en su bibliografía títulos como El otro zoo de Barcelona, de 1976; M'agrada que em faci aquesta pregunta: l'entrevista en premsa, de 1999, La nena del Leopoldo: Una crónica de Barcelona, de 2010 o Un perro verde entre los jóvenes del Papa de 2011.
En el campo del ensayo, escribió Tras el portón de bronce, que analizaba la realidad vaticana en tiempos del papa Francisco. Otro libro relevante suyo, publicado en el 2014, fue Cuando se jodió el nuestro, en el que analizaba la complicada relación entre Catalunya y España con entrevistas incisivas a personajes como Miquel Iceta, Jordi Pujol, Josép Cuní, Enrique Juliana, José Manuel Lara o Juan Manuel Tresserras.
Nacido en Barcelona en 1949, Arturo San Agustín pasó su juventud en el barrio del Poblenou –ahora renovado y principal colonia expatriada en la ciudad– y después entre el Somorrostro y una escuela de la Barceloneta, siempre ligado a esta parte de Barcelona. Su padre trabajaba para la compañía gasista El Arenal, situada en el distrito.
Antes de dedicarse de lleno al periodismo, San Agustín trabajó durante diez años como creativo publicitario, una etapa que le sirvió para desarrollar un estilo comunicativo directo y desinhibido, repleto de matices sugerentes, que aplicó posteriormente a sus labores tanto literarias como periodísticas.
El presidente de EEUU explota el 'peloteo' del secretario general de la OTAN: "Creo que le gusto"
El presidente de EEUU explota el 'peloteo' del secretario general de la OTAN: "Creo que le gusto" Mark Rutte, el secretario general que hizo del servilismo a Trump una forma de liderar la OTAN Los mensajes privados del secretario general de la OTAN a Trump: “Europa pagará a lo grande”
Luego, ya durante el marco de la cumbre de la OTAN en La Haya, Rutte y Trump comparecieron este miércoles de forma distendida ante la prensa. Mientras el estadounidense trataba de explicar que veía el conflicto entre Israel e Irán como “dos niños en el patio del colegio” a los que hay que dejar que se peguen un rato antes de calmarse, el secretario general de la OTAN le compraba el argumento, y apostillaba: “Sometimes, daddy has to use strong language” (A veces, papi tiene que usar lenguaje fuerte).
La frase provocó la risa de algunos asistentes a la rueda de prensa, y la cosa no quedó ahí. En otra comparecencia posterior de Donald Trump ante los medios, una periodista de Sky News le preguntaba: “Mark Rutte le ha llamado papá; ¿usted ve a los aliados de la OTAN como una especie de hijos?”. Trump contestaba que Rutte es su amigo: “Le gusto, creo que le gusto, lo ha hecho con cariño… ‘papá, eres mi papá’”. De fondo, ni siquiera Marco Rubio, secretario de Estado de EEUU, podía aguantar la risa.
Y de nuevo, el asunto no ha quedado ahí. Esta madrugada, la cuenta oficial de la Casa Blanca ha publicado –en redes y en su web oficial– un vídeo de la llegada de Trump a la cumbre de la OTAN que podría parecer parodia, pero no lo es. Lleva en grande el título ‘Daddy’s home’ (la casa de papá) y va acompañada de la canción de Usher con ese mismo nombre.
I read your article about your initiative for new licenses for dataset holders in the AI industry.
Let’s be clear: I do not want to re-license my hundreds of CC-By comic pages to please AI giants.
I wish you would support CC artists suffering from massive plagiarism. You should enforce your own existing licenses against AI mass crawling. It seems you’ve joined the battle only after the casualties and still managed to side with the wrong people.
Psss! After reading all those comments here, I just had to channel my inner artist. So, here’s my new logo for you; because clearly, you need all the help you can get in your new mission. You're welcome! 😂
It's possible I'm not seeing this perspective. As of right now it all seems counter intuitive. AI in itself violates copyright and those license that already exist. Why would the giants of AI care to all of a sudden agree to operate with respect and grace? Honestly it amazes me there is not wide spread lawsuits world wide against AI deliberate violations and fostering misinformation (confusion). The only positive I see in cc signals is starting the conversation.
I don't get what this is even supposed to accomplish. AI companies don't respect existing licenses or copyrights, why would they respect usage preferences via these signals? There's no point of this approach when scrapers can just continue to hide behind the "fair use" argument and steal everything they want.
I'd love to pick your brains about this particular news. From what I can read it looks so vague that it's no so much introducing something as inducing anxiety.
I have no reaction because it doesn't appear to have anything in it. Perhaps out of sheer cowardice. It's hard to gauge anything other the a will to "do something" or be seen to be doing something at least.
I would be happy if they just said: there were always clear rules. cc by can be used by machines, but then every single creator whose creations got used must be attributed properly.
Most of my creations are under cc by-sa. If a machine builds something on top of my creations, the rule *should* be clear: keep the license. If it reads cc by-sa, it must be cc by-sa (or a compatible license like GPLv3). 1/2 @creativecommons
@David Revoy This thing, along with the IETF draft that it is built upon, seems like a perfect excuse for the genAI leeches to keep sucking whatever they want.
“Well, of course we ingested your stuff in our model. If you didn’t want us to do that, all you had to do was to configure your webserver to return a Content-Usage: ai=n header; by not doing so, you in fact consented to us doing whatever we want.
(And if you did configure your webserver to return that header, tough luck, we‘ll do whatever we want anyway, because what are you going to do, sue us?)”
from the 4 proposed signals (credit, direct contribution, ecosystem contribution and open), none of them is about forbidding the usage of the assets to train AI😬
Dive into our early thinking below, then help shape what comes next! We’re looking for your ideas, feedback, and questions on the legal, technical, and social layers of this work.
The fact that there isn't a "no AI use" option is first and foremost telling about who this is for. It's an after the fact permission of the abuse that these companies have already subjected us all to.
They've been abusing both shared resources (the environment), and the resources of others (our intellectual property, and the web servers we host our stuff on), and by extension have violated the social contract.
And even if there was a no AI option with these new rules for Creative Commons, the past behavior of these companies has made it crystal clear that they won't bother respecting it. They pull back when big enough companies push back, but the rest of us can't afford to go after them in court, so they just run right over us like we don't matter.
All this is, is giving them permission after they've already abused the common good will. Doing that will only further build up their sense of entitlement.
Who did you all consult? Just the AI companies, right? No one who actually has looked at the harm these companies are doing, clearly.
@davidrevoy As long as certain countries allow to circumvent copyright for dtata mining.they can create as many new icons as they want. As long as (C) does not work, CC wouldn't either.
I just read this and... I have no idea what they're saying. It just seems to be an entire page of jargon and rah-rah devoid of any actual meaning.
As far as I can see, the fundamental issue is that they're proceeding from the flawed position that the "AI" companies have any redeeming value to society at large whatsoever (they don’t), and that they care what license we publish under (they don’t).
CC Legal’s top priority is to responsibly steward our licenses and public domain tools, ensuring that CC’s existing licenses and legal tools remain relevant, user-friendly, and as effective as possible in service of creators and reusers.
was this article written by a poorly trained LLM? because it says a lot of nothing. "CC signals are designed to sustain the commons in the age of AI" doesn't tell me anything. time to relicense my work..
I'm not sure what you mean by enforcing their licenses? They can only enforce their licenses on works they own; they don't have any right to enforce anyone else's copyrights, even if they wrote the license the work is published under.
that's... sad. I totally support free culture and I love initiatives CC were doing for like 2 decades. Nowadays I release my original music as CC BY-SA and in the early 2010s I was also involved in totally different projects involving CC music. I might be totally wrong, but my impression is that things are pretty different and now most of the projects that used to advocate that strong for free culture are moving too close to AI bullshit.
it's why i removed CC from everything i do, if there's no legal social contract protecting us from corporations systematically stealing source material to create products worth billions of dollars, then WTF does "fair use" really mean? "fair use" also includes _intent_, and the intent from AI is to fuck artists. NO.
This is yet another example of how Creative Commons has – since its inception by Larry Lessig – always designed policy from a libertarian sense of regulatory minimalism.
I'm not an expert on any area of creativity other than software, but I believe a strong regulatory regime that holds Big Tech accountable is paramount.
“Moving fast and breaking things” should not be a default for policy makers who care about individual creators.
I wonder how they could protect existing licenses against AI crawling when said existing licenses don't say anything about that? I think that is why these new licenses were created? No? We need Congress to act to extend copyright protections here. And I wish they would. In the mean time I am grateful to creative commons for trying here. They didn't deserve a hand bite here.
Problem This whole idea is completely and utterly wrong. Description Inviting AI scrapers to negotiate licensing terms for CC works is like a flock of sheep holding a summit to draft ethical guidel...
Wrong and right ia subjective. But it does sound like they sided with the EVIL people, that's for sure. And if the evil side is the right side for someone that says a lot about that someone.
the missing NOAI tag is the reason im sceptical of using a CC license.
I can understand that allowing AI keeps things more open, but it really should be a creattors choice to say no if they do not want to support that industry. I believe that is part of why we want a license to protect work from AI.
Seems kinda selfish of you to prioritize your own art over the shareholder value you ought to be generating. People like you are forcing these poor investors to live without a third yacht!
CC signals is a framework for a simple pact between those stewarding data, and those reusing it for AI development. CC signals provide a set of shared ground rules for an AI ecosystem that is mutua...
"building a more equitable, sustainable AI ecosystem rooted in shared benefits" Shared benefits? LOL. I don't want to share anything with fascist, world burning billionaires and their dream machines.
I don't see why we need extra signals and I don't see how it would help if their bots circumvent any measures and contracts we had for ages. The ones who have to change are not we who want to share and value an open internet, its them who must change! @creativecommons
Shouldn't the answer be simple? If you use the BY license you're supposed to give appropriate attribution when you use the work to train an AI model. Why would this somehow be different now?
did you miss the article where they explicitly said that all previously existing CC licenses are NOT compatible with AI training (unless crediting in the training data –and only some of them–, but let's be honest, AI companies would rather kill themselves, so this is virtually a prohibition.)
I don't think this CC Signals license article is actually directed to artists, I think this is a smokescreen to trick AI companies into feeling catered to; by explicitly creating an AI-friendly license they actively impede the AI companies from trying to ever argue that the previous CC derivative licenses were vague enough for AI training or in a "use case too new to be covered by a license" grey-area.
I really can't see how someone could see these two articles side by side and believe that Creative Commons was on anyone's side but the artists who use CC licenses
This is all very confusing and, honestly, a let down. I agree with you that it seems they're just trying to work with llms instead of maybe supporting the community of Cultural Workers that have been using CC licences for years.
This is part of why I believe Free-Culture is just a stepping stone to what sharing Culture should be, and not an end goal. Also why I believe that allowing organizations like Creative Commons to control the narrative on Free-Culture is dangerous.
Perhaps it's time to move to different sets of licences, or to ignore the organization completely and use the licenses as normal. I have often wondered, if Creative Commons ceases to exist, are licenses still valid?
given that a US judge just ruled that train a model on top of books is fair use what do you expect creative commons to be able to do to fight against that?
Well, the articles on the website are really wishy washy and unclear what this all means (LLM generated?).
The report however is a bit more clear and and far as i understand it this is not meant to be a new licence; more like add ons you can use if you decide to allow reuse for AI. It seems to be comparable with the "Do not track" signal. That's totally fine in my opinion. I don't think though that we will see big effects if the big AI firms just ignore it
I'm very upset how little acknowledgement gets the fact that the gen-ai scene currently violates BY clause nonstop. They are not even trying. Not even by giving thousands of pages long list with every source they scrapped.
@ArneBab @prinlu Regarding this and your previous point I think that in many cases, we (and also the models as well) may inadvertently create things with features similar to existing copyrighted works, and with enough resources someone can find some character to bootstrap a lawsuit and win, regardless that the other party don't even have any knowledge about that work/characters.
@ArneBab @prinlu I wish it was so simple as claiming that every output is "public domain", but it's more complex, esp. regarding Intellectual Property. Eg. The Terminator picture with a guitar generated (in your link) is clearly reusing the Terminator Intellectual Property. It's an accumulation of elements: the glasses, the face, body, the jacket... If you try to make a business with selling this picture, the copyright owner (StudioCanal) might sue you and win easily.
@prinlu @ArneBab But I heard that in the Midjourney case, they actually knowingly used copyrighted materials as advertisement and such, and don't provide much measures against generating copyrighted characters and works so it's like that they cannot use an excuse of not knowing about that and intentionally violated copyrights
@prinlu @ArneBab No: the court refused the author of "A Recent Entrance To Paradise" to be copyrighted. Not a case of a owner fighting for their intellectual properties.
The fact "it can't be copyrighted" doesn't mean it cannot be attacked if it degrades the Intellectual property of a brand, or owner, or bring them commercial prejudices.
The result of this bbc.com/news/articles/cg5vjqdm… will answer (on a US law POV) the debate around Intellectual Property usage in AI output...
@ArneBab @prinlu In the blog post the other commenter provided above, the author knows that they generated Terminator (a copyrighted character) so it's considered some kind of unauthorized reproduction under copyright laws and since they know that it's extremely difficult if impossible to defend. And note that in machine learning and AI, if a model reproduces parts of its training data, it's considered overfitting and pretty much researchers are aiming to avoid that
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🇺🇸🇺🇳 Donald Trump has reportedly promised that Russia will not attack NATO while he is President of the United States, according to The Washington Post.
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in reply to Rose • • •Here's one where the FC Dallas (hardly an international powerhouse club) under-15 boys beat the mighty US Women's national team 5-2 in a 2017 scrimmage:
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FC Dallas under-15 boys squad beat the U.S. Women's National Team in a scrimmage
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in reply to Rose • • •> If that doesn’t torpedo trans nonsense in sports, nothing will.
This misunderstands the issue as a logical issue rather than as a tool to weaken culture
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Anyone remember this happening back in 2017?
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FC Dallas under-15 boys squad beat the U.S. Women's National Team in a scrimmage
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in reply to Rose • • •If boys are faster than elite female athletes, should males compete in female athletics?
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