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Why is it that when regular people pirate something, they immediately get a notification from the isp, threatening legal action, but when Nvidia pirates something en masse, it’s called groundbreaking innovation
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En masse. Nothing Catholic about this.
TIL, thanks for the correction
Because Nvidia has an army of lawyers and a mountain of cash, duh
I mean, Nvidia is being sued by rightsholders in a class action lawsuit.
Good.
Then you have to agree that piracy is theft and people pirating content should be sued.
It's not theft, but it is copyright infringement. I pirate, but I'm under no illusions about what I'm doing. I do try to contribute back to the artist directly where possible.
I only bring it up to make the point that not everybody is calling what Nvidia is doing 'groundbreaking innovation'.
It's "funny" how, when the lawsuit comes out, they stop grifting about "AI" and start talking about statistics.
Technically they are correct. AI is nothing more than a ML, which is nothing more than complex statistics. Still, NVIDIA should be held accountable.
All of them should... none of them will.
Welcome to 2024 America.
Accountable for doing statistical analysis?
my pirated movies just become neuronal correlations in my brain too!
Me: "This binary file is merely an approximate mathematical and statistical transform of the complainant's "Deadpool 3", your honour. If you care to glance through a few A4 pages of the binary representation of both items, you can clearly see that there is no direct copying involved, thus, no copyright claim can be upheld."
Result: $250k fine, two years community service in anti piracy groups.
NVIDIA: "Each copyrighted work was ingested and a statistical model was generated that leverages that information for our own profit. We have no intention of compensating copyright owners for their information."
Result: Oh you! Get out of here, you scamp! Ruffles hair
The infinite monkey theorem states that a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type any given text, including the complete works of William Shakespeare.
I wonder how many monkeys NVIDIA has? /s
Monkeys are old hat. I much prefer to calculate pi in binary and then dump the result into a bitmap, then scroll through it infinitely. Eventually I'll learn everyone's secrets...
I vaguely remember reading about a way of writing down prime numbers that ended up in a pattern that could be translated into some kind of image. Math is awesome.
Considering a large portion of cryptography is based around large prime numbers being incredibly hard to find, I find it hard to believe anybody has found a significant pattern in them. That’s kind of the whole point.
Can you link to what you’re talking about?
Unfortunately I cannot find this article about patterns in prime numbers. I remember it was pretty technical but apart from the general idea I'm not able to provide anymore details.
Thanks for looking
The only thing I can think of is the sieve of Eratothenes, but geometric representations aren't typical, and they aren't that pretty of a picture. For the ones I've seen, anyway.
We might as well ditch the modern concept of copyright as far as I’m concerned.
Cuz there’s no good outcome to this case if copyright is our only weapon to counter the technofeudalists.
They’re very clear in their aim: Every book a human makes will be used in an effort to replace the human that made the book.
Who gives a shit if that’s through statistics or black magic? It’s anticompetitive behavior, plain and simple. Shoot them down on antitrust grounds.
If doubling the list of rights you sign away in an employment contract is the only way we’re allowed to mitigate this, then we’re fucked.