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Jetzt bin ich aber doch überrascht.

Next they find out that meta also didn't care about all the other users, when they rolled out the addictive mechanisms. That they needed to please the gods of revenue... I mean... shareholders.

Thank you. That article gave me some insights.

• AI firms fear AI generated content and train their models with books from before. The fact that AI waters down the source data quality, because AI generated data becomes part of the source data. It's worrying, let's see where it leads and how the AI effects can be mitigated.
• Lawsuits seem to be an issue for anthropic and a driver for the scanning program too. Because illegal copies are problematic.
• The books are destructively scanned and disposed afterwards.
• In rare cases a 18th century book might be lost. But the ordered books seem to include anything and nothing. The term rare book seems to refer to the fact that a small amount of copies have been printed and only a few copies are available for sale (and the larger part is stored in libraries).
• Booksellers are both worried and happy at the same time.

Without details it feels, like a fear, uncertainty, doubt strategy just for the clicks, to me. I'm missing crucial information for an informed decision. The article is not suitable for much more than igniting anger.

LLM and AI companies rise a lot of valid criticism, besides its undeniable pros. I don't like a witch hunt just because it is AI and someone tells me to be angry. I need more facts before I go fetch my pitchfork.

I.e. I dont get why they destroy the books. Google Books did fine without unbinding/ destroying books. It would help to know what kind of books are processed. And what their process is.

I don't have information if the OCRed data is made available to the public. Which would be nice, since the article talks about data that is not yet digitally available.

Are we talking about 14th century handcrafted masterpieces or 2000s university textbooks? Do they destroy cultural heritage items or dusty low value sold-by-weight books?

I need to know if I have to feel angry and agitated or indifferent.

The thing with FOSS is, that market share matters to an extend, only. It's about support und continued development and financing that (or helping otherwise).

The strain on the FOSS developers isn't closely related to the market share. Ok, bigger market share, might help to better the financing.

But Linux does well with the current share. (Doesn't mean its devs do too.) Server wise Linux is already here to stay. Desktop wise... It's much better than years ago, I must say.

KDE, Pipewire and all the USB and bluetooth device integration is already pretty good. There are bugs and flaws, but nothing serious. Hardware support - I can't think of any hardware in my possession, that isn't supported.

All the office apps, browsers, development environments don't need Windows anymore.

Gaming? Steam will continue to nudge developers to release native Linux versions. Or proper wine configs. They have a steam hardware to sell after all.
Yes, the anti-tamper ring0 and virtualization stuff can't be easily emulated or virtualized, I heard. Or has that changed?

Anything else that needs Windows running natively?

Specialized software still needs native Windows? What about Adobe and the like? Tools without a fully featured replacement and no native Linux version. These might offer Linux support if the share increases.

hidden electricity bill

Hidden? Whoa.

Soon someone discovers the amount of processing power and RAM needed to make or run these models. That's going to be a surprise.

E: I'm ranting because of the headline. The fact itself can't be stated too often. Hopefully some of those investors start to question if AI company shares are a good investment.

Reselling isn't a thing with any PC game store I know. Which is the only drawback for me. Is it possible to sell my old PS game discs or are they attached to my PS account?

So... Sony could, from a technical POV, block games which come on disc, too? It's just a tiny firmware update. And good luck playing GTA online or Diablo 4 with an offline PS to prevent updates. Or any game which needs a newer PS firmware.

The root issue seems to be that you are not root on your PS. And you don't trust Sony with that role.

At one point people decided that they needed that shiny new ps-only exclusive title regardless. And Sony knows that the majority doesn't care about control, as long as they don't take it away from them.

Disabling games which someone ~~bought~~ licensed is a thing with Sony? That ecosystem has bigger problems than a missing disc drive it seems.

What possibilities are lost with the disc(ontinuation)? Has running the PS without a permanent network connection been a regular use case for many? Are DLCs and frequent patches and updates not a thing in the Sony sphere?

That's the second path of the production line.