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I don't fully understand it. Are they liable for content made up by their AI? Or are they now liable for content written by others and summed up (correctly) by their AI?

From my reading the German court's ruling is that Google are responsible both for claims they made up and claims they rephrase from somewhere else. Because the claims appear as a statement of fact made by Google. If they showed it as "User X on site Y claims Z" they would not be held responsible. Because that's how search engines are understood to work. If they make a wrong quote, they would be responsible for that though.

So my understanding is their unreliable AI summaries are a legal liability for Google in Germany and people can request corrections through the courts.


And doesnt this imply they arent ripping off the underlying information?

If it is not allowed to be used in the EU, it shouldn't be allowed to export it.

> Although these chemicals are not allowed on the EU market, they can still be exported from European Member States to third countries. From there, they can return to Europe as residues in imported food — a “toxic pesticides boomerang” that puts consumers at risk.


The term "blowback" has a lot of applications. For example in WW I, when chemical weapons were used and the wind changed, and you gassed your own troops.

This seems like a new economic-chemical place for the term to be used.


To back up your third point, here is a study of the political bias in the German public service broadcasters (in German):

https://web.archive.org/web/20240207032743/https://polkom.if...


Thanks, that's a great point. I know a huge amount of the literature exactly in this area, and I'm honestly still pretty skeptical of the theoretical idea of the diversity principle. Mostly because there doesn't seem to be a good consensus what actually is a good amount of diversity.

But in practical terms, while there are some very obvious gaps and biases, I think the German media system is still pretty good in a lot of ways and everybody does have a lot of freedom.

I'd even go so far as to say - the typical accusations of censorship are mostly from right-wing actors who are not censored, but who demand more views and make a spectacle out of claiming to be censored.


Can you summarise this?


It would be, if you had any control over what the algorithm feeds you. But you don't, so what does really change?


I mean, if Spotify would provide a nice way to download their music (which they also pirated back in the days when they had no money but an idea) annas archive would not need to use scraping.


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It's digital copies, no real damage is done.

AA asks you to not scrape them because of server load and provides torrents to download everything in more efficient manner.


Unlike Spotify, AA is a nonprofit. It's more urgent for them to prevent costly extraction of data. Spotify can do this too, if they so wanted.

It's not about consent, obviously AA is infringing.

BTW, why did you create a last minute account just to criticize AA?


Thanks, Big Tech!


Would this replace something like codebase-memory-mcp[1] or improve when both is being used?

[1] - https://github.com/DeusData/codebase-memory-mcp


Well, Nate Glubish seems to be the Minister of Technology and Innovation of Alberta.


Bet Nate Glubish didn't write a single word. Not even the prompt for the "AI".

It was some intern...


The only thing this piece of information does to me is lower my respect for Alberta.


For me it's different. I am not diagnosed, but I think my executive function doesn't work right. It's really hard for me to start a new task, but when it is interesting enough I can hyper focus until it's done. In the past that often happened when I needed to implement something not too trivial. But now that AI does the implementation in minutes I need to switch tasks constantly and it is honestly super exhausting for me.


Sounds to me like what people are identifying as dopamine, generating it and enjoying it. I am not educated though about brain function.

Noticing novelty is beneficial in nature as it surfaces opportunities to conscious level. "Squirrel!" famously, from the movie "Up". It feels good to experience. Then, creating ones own dopamine supply can drive behavior, and increasing the number of behavior can exhaust energy supply on different human dimensions.

So now, managing this process and limiting the dopamine cycle becomes also worthwhile -- avoiding fatigue potentially perhaps -- while still not negating the attractiveness of dopamine derivable from the endless opportunities of the world. <3


The article assumes single digit million as cost. That is a drop in the water when it comes to cost of running ISS.

Additionally the technical paper claims psychological benefits for humans to have something familiar in a harsh and unfamiliar environment. Which will also come in handy for when humans travel beyond LEO.


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