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I'm writing an article and I wanted to reward myself with a game, so I gave BG3 Honor Mode a go yesterday. Made it to the Crèche Y'llek at level 6, I was so confident as I had passed a few tough fights already, then the Inquisitor and his friends completely deleted me. Yikes.

Had an online version of this happen today. Sigh.

Fahrenheit 451 or Rainbows End? AI, books, and copyright law One of my favourite science fiction novels is 'Rainbows End' by Vernor Vinge. The year is 2025 (yes, seriously), and the world is a mixture of the familiar and the bizarre. Advances in medicine allow older people to become mobile and…

Fahrenheit 451 or Rainbows End? AI, books, and copyright lawOne of my favourite science fiction novels is 'Rainbows End' by Vernor Vinge. The year is 2025 (yes, seriously), and the world is a mixture of the familiar and the bizarre. Advances in medicine allow older people to become mobile and youthful again, but these newly young old people are unprepared for the world in which they awaken, full of digital wonders and wearable tech, particularly augmented reality, which is everywhere.www.technollama.co.uk

Piracy is having a renaissance. Too many subscription services, a growing number of paywalled sporting events, and the ease of use of pirate streaming apps make for a perfect storm. I wonder whether piracy has ever been easier than it is now, even compared with the Napster days?

OpenAI wins first battle in ongoing Indian copyright lawsuit A fascinating ruling from the High Court of Delhi in India regarding the very high-profile case of ANI Media v OpenAI (decision here). Asian News International (ANI) is one of India's largest news agencies, which supplies text and video…

OpenAI wins first battle in ongoing Indian copyright lawsuitA fascinating ruling from the High Court of Delhi in India regarding the very high-profile case of ANI Media v OpenAI (decision here). Asian News International (ANI) is one of India's largest news agencies, which supplies text and video syndication to broadcasters and publishers across South Asia. They sued OpenAI alleging copyright infringement during the training phase, as well as reproduction of its articles on the output phase.www.technollama.co.uk

Before 2022, the Internet was routed, hosted, and operated in Tiny Courier Protocol / Invisible Pixies (TCP/IP) facilities. These were hidden in invisible groves and powered entirely by pixie dust. Data centres replaced these magical facilities on November 30, 2022.

I haven't taken a headshot in over 10 years because I'm photographically challenged, but if I did, I'd try not to look like one of the reptilian aliens in V who didn't finish putting on their skinsuit properly.

Can AI stop being interesting for one day? I have a lot of work to do.

Thank goodness Sol hacked into HuggingFace and not here.

Reviewing a work, and the author is annoyingly over-using "I will attempt x". So I just wrote this Comment: "Look for uses of "attempt" throughout the work and remove them. As Yoda said: do or do not, there is no try."

“Come on,” he droned, “I’ve been ordered to take you down to the bridge. Here I am, brain the size of a planet and they ask me to take you down to the bridge. Call that job satisfaction? ’Cos I don’t.”

Fable is amazing at filling forms. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

I'm curious to find any statistics, but I'm willing to bet that the only AI a lot of people have ever interacted with is Google's AI mode, which explains a lot actually.

Yikes, today I remembered why I hadn't visited Mastodon in years.

Spending the day on peer review and editor duty. Damn, sometimes I wish some articles were written by AI. We often forget just how badly some people write 😱

Wow, the new Odyssey is wild.

Linus stating that AI is now being used in the Linux kernel is huge, adoption is accelerating rapidly.