Highly influential culture? It’s a fantasy work, not the cure to cancer. But I’ll agree on one thing: corporations are not people; they should be paying to the original creator(s) an efty cut of their profits, from their derivative works.

So you create whatever work. You have exclusive rights to it, let’s say for the sake of the argument, 10 years. During that time you never get any return from your work. But after you can no longer claim your rights, someone, perhaps even a company, stumbles on it - or perhaps they just carefully and patiently waited for it - takes it and capitalizes off it, with you watching and sucking your thumb.

No.

If you, an individual, creates something, you have the right to hold your intelectual property. What should be repelled is how easy it is to exploit artists, of any medium.

Yes. Definitely, yes. And I would buy the condoms.

That is trust. Asking for a safe space, under the roof of their parents, that is sign they trust their parents.

I’m very critic of the AI craze. Too much hype, money, time,energy and effort put in to get very little from it. And considering most LLMs are trained on stolen intelectual property, that makes it even worse.

LLMs are tools. The people using such tools give it personality, a semblance of agency, see what is not there and start to consider a tool a form of life.

I’ve seen people pour so much of them into a local model, the bot develops a quasi clone of their personality. But the program is not the person.

Please, stop making bots what they are not.

I grew being told, playfully, that if fried a shoe would taste nice. But no. Too much of a good thing is bad for you.

Not an american but, apparently, still as much confused as you are over the concept.

Large Language Model

To the extent of my understanding, it is a form of slightly more sophisticated bot, as in an automated response algorithm, that is developed over a set of data, in order to have it “understand” the mechanics that make such set cohesive to us humans.

With such background, it is supposed to produce new similar outputs if given new raw data sets to run through the mechanics it acquired during development.

Nice.

This reminds me: weren’t pet rocks a thing at a certain time?

You’re describing me but I am not autistic. Can we again just say it is just a bad idea all together.

How come?

AI models to “aid” in court, listening to witnesses in order to assert if said person is telling the truth or lying are being proposed in my country.

Argument: it will speed up trials, declogging the justice system by extension.

Most lawyers are horrified, as well some judges.

Meanwhile, a judge as been suspended and reprimanded for using AI tools to write his decisions for him.

Yes, the bot did allucinate arguments and used argumentation in common law style, while my country is civil law model.

A politian is an elected representative. Their appointment depends on those who put their trust on them.

How politians managed to create a compulsory respect towards them evades me. The position they occupy is not theirs and, for what it counts, makes them the voters and state (as in, every citizen) servants.

The dude is drunk. To the point he forgets when he is.

I’m going to risk his then hot girlfriend/now wife read that message and got a pinch of miffed just by knowing he was drunk.

I still say it’s a sweet thing to read. Drunk and nonetheless still in love for his signficant other? Precious.

That’s sweet. If the guy still sees her as his girlfriend, when drunk, the right feeling is still there. And if he get’s excited for knowing she’s his wife presently, that’s even better.

But I’m going to risk things a bit off between them. That reply sounded a bit miffed, from the wife.

Depends on the dog, the available space and how they’re cared for.

I take care of two shepperd dogs and they just love to spend their day sleeping and lazying around. Morning walk I almost need to beg them to get out of bed. End of the day walk, they’re fine. But these are two lazy ladies. My partner, their godfather, was always up for a long walk, come sun or rain.

No fountain pens?

If you really need to, go without a phone and buy a cheap one there. Memorize a few numbers and use a single application to handle your communications.

I would probably be detained. I have no mainstream social media, keep no images on my phone and don’t use gmail.

There’s wisdom to be found in any book. What someone gains from any source depends entirely on them.

If a person is to read the most hatred filled book ever written in human kind history and set it down saying everything in it is wrong, even when the book was pourposefully written to spread and instill it, that person is bigger than the book and became bigger after reading it.

So, please, don’t be so hasteful on labelling someone as delusional just because they take comfort on something you personally disregard as useful.

The problem arises when someone says the way they understand a given source is the only right one.

There is a sciemce fiction book on that, from Ray Bradbury.