"...his desire to make it apply to as many stories as possible leads him to use extremely vague and imprecise language and, as a result, much of what he says about the supposed stages of the hero’s journey is essentially meaningless." https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2020/12/31/the-heros-journey-is-nonsense/
It's absolutely wild to me that we're seeing the legitimizing of a mass theft occur, right out in the open. The question is no longer, "how will we hold 'AI' corporations accountable for the thievery they've committed?" but "how do we allow them to monetize what they stole?".
"This suggests these articles are automatically syndicated, and local journalists at affiliates are not able to exercise editorial discretion. When these articles are syndicated, they appear alongside identically formatted articles on local government, weather, and sports." https://popular.info/p/sinclair-floods-local-news-websites
Me: "No, honestly, I am. Because today was a reminder that I am unfit for an office job. Having to deal with this sort of thing all the time--can you imagine?"
My daughter: *in tones of surpassing horror* "Oh, I don't want to."
Me: "Precisely. My powers of restraint are legendary, yet finite."
Me: "...so it's really best for the world if I'm locked up in my little cave with my imaginary people, scribbling their violent little kissing stories! It's for the greater good!"
My daughter: "I'm trying to imagine you in charge of an office supply cabinet."
"Meta is now scraping Facebook posts to train its AI model. While this isn’t surprising on its own, what is surprising is just how difficult Meta is making it for users to opt out of this process." https://www.androidauthority.com/facebook-ai-opt-out-3446434/
Got a notification from Airtable that they're going all-in on that "AI" nonsense. The only thing I really used it for was the yearly reading log, but that's been exported now and I'll use a local spreadsheet.
So much goodwill is being lost by companies leaping on the plagiarism engine bandwagon.
As I said elsewhere: They *say* individual user data won't be used to feed the Microsoft "AI" they're using.
Of course, these companies also *say* they'll respect robots.txt and not scrape all our feeds and websites to feed their plagiarism machines, and my firewall user agent blocking data politely disagrees.
Morning Walk Report: Boxnoggin losing his damn mind at a husky across the street (who returned the favour, alas), waves of rain as the atmospheric river grows fitful, branches heavy with moisture, crows cavorting aerobatic for peanuts.