Five publishers and one author have filed lawsuit against Meta for deliberately pirating millions of books to train its AI model Llama. While symbolic, the suit also names Mark Zuckerberg for “personally authorized and actively encouraged the infringement.” The publishers include: Hachette, Macmillan, McGraw Hill, Elsevier, and Cengage, and novelist Scott Turow.The suit, filed in […]
Can’t steal the pun without crediting the punster, and it’s also worth pointing out that Dan Thompson had to have drawn this before the court decision came down and extend him some kudos for that, as well, though the trial took five weeks, so there was plenty of time to jump aboard.The YouTube lawyer explained […]
Let’s start with something to brighten your day, and how nice that Arctic Circle has, by happenstance, a cartoon to go along with what is essentially more analysis than breaking news.You may recall that, some time ago, Disney announced a deal with Sora, the AI slop-maker, under which fans would be permitted to make short […]
Nick Anderson (Counterpoint) manages the only tasteful riff I’ve seen on that accidental movie set shooting.It’s not a real gun and GOP claims of a stolen election are equally fake and, alas, they’re both equally deadly.The question is not whether Donald Trump believes his Big Lie — he’s been a bullshit artist all his life […]