Can be sold as well. I looked at this chart to get numbers, not sure about accuracy. Shows China made around 9.27 PWh and used 8.93 PWh. The G7 used about 7 PWh total.

https://countryeconomy.com/energy-and-environment/electricity-consumption

Edit: realized my typo and now I’m questioning. in Watt hours, does it use Petawatt hours like computers do… I assume? Changed TWh to PWh

It’s great that they are creating that much. They have the largest incentive too, the U.S. second. The G7 they refer to (U.S. U.K. Japan Germany France Italy Canada) used a total of ~7 PWh of electricity in 2023. China used ~9 PWh.

Hopefully the G7 starts catching up. Chinas form of government puts their long term expendetures into play when figuring out where to invest as they have a monetary stake in how much it costs to produce the electricity.

In countries like the U.S. we see companies who have large investments in oil, coal, and such trying to manipulate the transition because they didn’t have the investments already in place with alternative energy sources. The U.S. government has no money “invested” per say, so long term they don’t care that it costs more during the transition as those profits are made by the companies. The old oil tycoons will milk every penny under the attitude “I got mine.”. Then they’ll die, and we will hope some companies have transitions in place that bring low cost efficient renewable systems long term

Seems like bad legislation decisions though. Maybe write in a clause that says if you upload a book to train an AI, then once completed you have to get rid of the book, in a manner than can include donating them to libraries or charities.

Any way it goes it’s a loss. Why waste the paper, glue, ink and such. Would be great if they created a database when they uploaded each book and shared it to the world with direct purchase of the digital copy to the owner of the work. So the other 30 AIs that come along can just download them there, and they already know a set price, so if we see the company doesn’t pay at least that much, we know they are stealing the works

https://archive.ph/52qVy (To avoid the blocks)

Anyways. The article has a laundry list of antisemetic quotes made by Republican propaganda pushers.

It’s a horrible ruling. If you want to see why I say so I put some of the reasonung in the other comment who responded to that.

https://lemmy.world/comment/17884664

The language model isn’t teaching anything it is changing the wording of something and spitting it back out. And in some cases, not changing the wording at all, just spitting the information back out, without paying the copyright source. It is not alive, it has no thoughts. It has no “its own words.” (As seen by the judgement that its words cannot be copyrighted.) It only has other people’s words. Every word it spits out by definition is plagiarism, whether the work was copyrighted before or not.

People wonder why works, such as journalism are getting worse. Well how could they ever get better if anything a journalist writes can be absorbed in real time, reworded and regurgitated without paying any dos to the original source. One journalist article, displayed in 30 versions, dividing the original works worth up into 30 portions. The original work now being worth 1/30th its original value. Maybe one can argue it is twice as good, so 1/15th.

Long term it means all original creations… Are devalued and therefore not nearly worth pursuing. So we will only get shittier and shittier information. Every research project… Physics, Chemistry, Psychology, all technological advancements, slowly degraded as language models get better, and original sources deminish returns.

The classic pull out game.

Fred: “We can protect ourselves” Terry: “nah we’ll just raw dog it.” Fred: “we just pushed no protection pertaining to sex because we wanted higher birthrates, this will cause more deaths without protections, it’s a medical issue…” Kennedy: Let’s have HIV parties so everyone can build strong immunities.

Ah I figured they would have ranked pays like the military because of their unions, sounds like it must be more like teachers wages vary within their unions as well. I’ve never wanted to be a cop, so I never watched how their pay scales

Yeah, we had a fun example a while ago, let me see if I can still find it.

We would ask to create a photo of a cat with no tail.

And then tell it there was indeed a tail, and ask it to draw an arrow to point to it.

It just points to where the tail most commonly is, or was said to be in a picture it was not referencing.

Edit: granted now, it shows a picture of a cat where you just can’t see the tail in the picture.

Sure, we could also ask why they only asked for $17 million to pay off the overtime as well, but we would just be going in circles, haha. I’m more impressed than they will pay 17 million off in 90 days when they are operating at a loss in some way that they have “$1 billion in debt” supposedily.

Oh I agree it should be, but following the judges ruling, I don’t see how it could be. You trained an LLM on textbooks that were purchased, not pirated. And the LLM distributed the responses.

(Unless you mean the human reworded them, then yeah, we aren’t special apparently)

So further review shows they average over $4 million a week on overtime.

So I guess we could surmise it was around $25 million more than normal.

LAPD budget for 2025: $2.14 billion. Works out to just over $41 million a week.

Being that they are already on salary I assume, I wonder how much it really was “more than normal”.

I suppose someone could develop an LLM that digests textbooks, and rewords the text and spits it back out. Then distribute it for free page for page. You can’t copy right the math problems I don’t think… so if the text wording is what gives it credence, that would have been changed.

“According to the October 2024 report from the NNSA, it has also been certified to fly on the B-2, F-16, and German Air Force PA-200 Tornado jets, and is working towards certification on the Italian Air Force’s Tornados and the US Air Force’s B-21 bomber.”

Meaning the German PA-200 the UK just retired in 2019 could have been certified to carry those warheads… But you probably would rather have warheads not made in America either

Are you asking how one can deem legitimacy of someone’s actions and if they are based off morals/ethics if I understand correctly?

I don’t believe it comes to that. I believe it is about whether someone’s actions were reasonable. If their boss tells them their performance is lacking and they need to let them go, it’s reasonable. If their boss calls them a vile piece of shit that deserves to lose his house, kids, and their partner doesn’t deserve to be stuck with such a lowlife so they should just blow their brains out… And a coworker brought that information to their spouse after they blew their brains out later that day… they may have a case.

I’m sure it’s all relative

Well by draining the swamp they meant building a dam that created a lake.

“While the copies used to convert purchased print library copies into digital library copies were slightly disfavored by the second factor (nature of the work), the court still found “on balance” that it was a fair use because the purchased print copy was destroyed and its digital replacement was not redistributed.”

So you find this to be valid? To me it is absolutely being redistributed

If I understand correctly they are ruling you can by a book once, and redistribute the information to as many people you want without consequences. Aka 1 student should be able to buy a textbook and redistribute it to all other students for free. (Yet the rules only work for companies apparently, as the students would still be committing a crime)

They may be trying to put safeguards so it isn’t directly happening, but here is an example that the text is there word for word: