Just wondering- how much assembly? ie how many separate prints? I have a printer from about 7-8 years ago, and looking at your pieces, it seems like the tech has come leaps and bounds.

This is high-school level basics of recognizing that none of us is working in a vacuum. As much as the modern technology industry likes to think that they have invented everything, and all of THEIR cases are special, and don’t need to follow the rules, this just isn’t the case.

People have been citing Wikipedia as a reference for as long as it’s been around- sure, you might not have a traditional in-text citation or Works Cited page, but there has to be some way of acknowledgement. Otherwise, you are making the claim that you came up with all of the information-

Again, Wikipedia has an attribution license- so I would look to how other people who have used their content have cited it- this isn’t a brand new idea. Just because you are using it in a nominally new way, doesn’t mean we get to just toss out years of protocol around giving people credit.

Actually owned the rights to those 70000 images. Or did they just scrape them off the web? Then we are back to the same problem.

If I have uploaded something knowing that it has CC-BY designation, then the ‘use in a training model’ is a reasonable reuse. But part of that would be credit to all of the contributors- how one would do that is, of course, open to many possible solutions. That assumes, of course, that the uploader

And that will leave all of us poorer, except, of course, for the "model builders" who then sell regurgitated pap back to us.

Just because someone uploaded it somewhere doesn't make it free game. Which seems to be the point that lots of folks refuse to understand. At the moment, the biggest goal of the majority of the "AI" companies seems to be cutting out artists of all types - print, image, video, etc.

I can, with a little digging, find pretty much anything that is still under copyright 'out there' - does that mean that it's ok to put Stephen King's latest bestseller into my model to 'train' it? Or still images of every frame of every Star Wars property?

In this example, the essential question then becomes - were those people aware that their images/data would be used? Did they have the ability to opt-out? The 'well, it's online somewhere, therefore it's free for me to steal' mindset is what I have the biggest problem with.

You are conflating critique or criticism with ‘scrape text from everything that I can get my hands on to make a product’. I am not arguing against the long tradition of fair use. What I am arguing is that ‘feed everything into the automated plagiarism machine’ isn’t fair use.

I would argue that once someone starts making money from it, they need to 100% get permission from those involved. At that point, it’s no longer research- it’s business.

Scientific research and archiving for posterity are not at all the same thing as using that text to build a model that someone is going to use to profit from.

Seconding this- our middle-aged gal, who has had long-term hip issues after being hit by a car while a stray, has been much more energetic and obviously in much less discomfort since starting it. Not a miracle cure, but a huge quality of life increase.

I can’t be the only one who mixes dissolvable fiber into their coffee? The trick is finding one that doesn’t leave chunks or grit (took some experimenting). Plus, it increases the creaminess/smoothness of the coffee.

I’d nominate His Girl Friday for some of the best speedy, snappy dialog, even though it’s not Grant/Hepburn.

To be fair, the signs indicate that there was a shelter in the basement- typically behind some reasonably sturdy doors, with no windows.

What a small world- I lived in Forest Hill for 40+ years, and just relocated about an hour north, into lower PA- the little hills and valleys here are beautiful.