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  • With what seems like millions upon millions of copyright infringements, seems like more than enough for a serious firm to take on. With some major copyright owners on board I don’t think it would be as David and Goliath as you’re making it out to be. I wouldn’t be surprised to see one of these cases come to pass when these labs actually become profitable. I haven’t heard any pushback on copyright for AI labs in other countries so far so it seems to be a uniquely western complaint although I’m more than happy to be proved incorrect. I honestly have no clue how copyright is managed in Israel, India, or China.


  • Seems easy enough to prove with a court order. Short of that though I’ve seen people get models to perfectly complete content inferring that information is in there somewhere or at minimum the model is willing to go fetch that information breaching copyright. I am still curious if this is an issue in AI labs elsewhere or if it’s primarily a US / UK issue.


  • There could be a class action lawsuit. I wonder how other major players in AI are managing this, particularly labs in China, Israel, UK, Singapore, and India. Of course each nation had its own laws around copyright. Like isn’t there an equal pushback like this for Chinese AI labs or is it a uniquely American or western thing?



  • I mean there’s almost no secret sauce about these AI’s currently which is why open source models are nearly as good. We are totally free to set up a nonprofit kinda like Wikipedia where people donate to train and run AI models for the public based on open source datasets. We’re now seeing people like PewDiePie kinda getting the ball rolling.


  • Whether a flash of light is visible comes down to a fundamental concept in visual neuroscience known as temporal summation or generally Bloch’s Law.

    Our eyes don’t process light instantaneously, they integrate light over a short window of time (around 10 to 100 milliseconds, depending on whether you are looking through your central or peripheral vision).

    Bloch’s Law states that for very short durations, the perceived brightness of a flash depends on the total number of photons hitting the retina during that time window, not the duration itself.

    So you can flash a standard light source like a normal LED very quickly, like at 1 microsecond or faster, it will be completely invisible. The flash was so short that the total number of photons entering your eye fell way below the minimum threshold required to trigger your photoreceptors and send a signal to your brain.

    inversely you can increase the intensity of the light enough that it will always be seen regardless of the duration of the pulse, a high-powered laser pulsed for a femtosecond will remain visible.