U.S. House Backs Israel in 412-9 Vote After Democrat Called State ‘Racist’ – WSJ:
The House voted overwhelmingly to pass a resolution affirming America’s strong support for Israel and condemning antisemitism, a move that sought to put Democrats on the spot after a progressive leader called the country racist.
The measure passed 412-9, with one member voting present.
It appears “The Squad” overplayed its hand. It’s one thing to post to an echo-chamber like Twitter and think you have strong support. It’s another to have 412 of your fellow congress critters rebuking your remarks.
Thousands of Authors Ask AI Chatbot Owners to Pay for Use of Their Work – WSJ:
More than 8,000 authors have signed a letter asking the leaders of companies including Microsoft, Meta Platforms META -0.00%increase; green up pointing triangle and Alphabet to not use their work to train AI systems without permission or compensation.
The letter, signed by noteworthy writers including James Patterson, Margaret Atwood and Jonathan Franzen, says the AI systems “mimic and regurgitate our language, stories, style, and ideas.” The letter was published by the Author’s Guild, a professional organization for writers.
“Millions of copyrighted books, articles, essays, and poetry provide the ‘food’ for AI systems, endless meals for which there has been no bill,”…
Honestly, can’t we say the same thing about human readers? How many of you learned a ‘turn of phrase’ from some book you half-remember reading in high school? Should these writers also ask to be paid a stipend from everyone of us who read their books and sometimes even quote them to other people?
Right now I suspect a lot of these people see very deep pockets and wonder why they can’t have some of that income stream. But even if we calculate (say) 10% of OpenAI’s income being devoted to royalties to all of the billions of documents written by millions of writers–how would anyone, including folks like James Patterson, ever see more than few pennies?
I mean, it’s not like OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4 spends most of its days regurgitating “Maximum Ride”…