May. 28th, 2024

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This is laughable insanity.

Nvidia is defending itself in a lawsuit from a bunch of authors that their works were used - without license or any form of authorization - to train up Nvidia's LLM platform. Apparently Nvidia got the data from scraping pirate ebook web sites....

Quoth the article: "Nvidia seemed to defend the shadow libraries as a valid source of information online when responding to a lawsuit from book authors over the list of data repositories that were scraped to create the Books3 dataset used to train Nvidia's AI platform NeMo.

That list includes some of the most "notorious" shadow libraries—Bibliotik, Z-Library (Z-Lib), Libgen, Sci-Hub, and Anna's Archive, authors argued. However, Nvidia hopes to invalidate authors' copyright claims partly by denying that any of these controversial websites should even be considered shadow libraries."


Copyright infringement is a pretty simple standard, which these sites clearly violate. Now, some may contain books that are out of copyright, or completely unavailable, but a bulk of their content is illegal under U.S. law. That is pretty clear. Quibbling over the definition of the term 'shadow library' is a complete waste of the court's time and isn't going to win them any points with the judge.

This is not going to work.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/05/nvidia-denies-pirate-e-book-sites-are-shadow-libraries-to-shut-down-lawsuit/
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Guy in a CT wants to apparently perform "reverse doughnuts" in front of a crowd. And succeeds in backing into a crowd of people at speed, knocking them about. Apparently no one was injured.

Just another form of ritual idiocy. The article has a video of the incident.

https://jalopnik.com/cybertruck-crashes-into-crowd-after-failing-to-do-rever-1851503733


Guy parks on an incline, gets out of his truck and scrapes his leg against the bottom corner of the door. And gashes his leg badly enough to possibly need stitches.

The article quotes from the owners manual the various ways the truck can injure you and how you should handle it.

https://gizmodo.com/tesla-cybertruck-door-leaves-a-gash-in-owners-leg-1851463705


Guy goes to a dealership to pick up his newly delivered CT (note that these are all different guys, not one guy with horrible luck and taste). He notices an irregularity on the tailgate, goes to wipe it to see if it's wipeable, and cuts himself in a geyser fashion.

The Tesla salesmen are able to patch him up without needing to invoke emergency services. He takes delivery of said truck, goes home, and thinks that 'surely enough time has passed for the wound to have closed.' Well, that's what ya get for thinking. Removes the bandage and geyser resumes erupting. Ends up at ER.

https://gizmodo.com/new-cybertruck-sends-owner-to-the-emergency-room-before-1851503680


And finally, the presumptive Republican nominee for President publicly stated that he would stop all electric vehicle sales if he returns to office.

In 2016, when he was first elected to office, approximately 160,000 EVs were sold. That number is expected to exceed ten times that in 2024 and to continue to grow. Hyundai just invested $13 billion in EV production in Georgia. The head of Ford said that they do their projections in much longer time frames than presidential election cycles. Regardless, statements like this could easily cost him more votes in the south where EV production is growing than he might think it would gain him in his base.

https://gizmodo.com/donald-trump-says-stop-electric-car-sales-1851503550

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