Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says there are complex copyright questions around scraping data to train AI models, but he suggests the individual work of most creators isn’t valuable enough for it to matter. [...]
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Zuckerberg said Meta’s future AI content strategy would likely echo its blunt response to proposed laws that would add a fee for links to news stories. The company has typically responded to these rules by blocking news outlets in countries like Australia and Canada. “Look, we’re a big company,” he said. “We pay for content when it’s valuable to people. We’re just not going to pay for content when it’s not valuable to people. I think that you’ll probably see a similar dynamic with AI.”

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20190118

Between Sept. 22-28, for any book bought from Powell's Banned Book list, 20% of the sale will be donated. There are over 150 books on the list available to be purchased, including book titles such as "Hunger Games," "1984," "Heartstopper" and "The Color Purple."

Also applies to www.powells.com

https://powells.com/banned-books

Coca-Cola Spiced, BTW.

The little computer-that-could benefits as supply chain eases

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20126672

Source Bloomberg article

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20125774

Source Wall Street Journal article

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19949217

North American theater owners new capital investments draw moviegoers house premium experience local multiplex.

"The complaint filed in San Diego Superior Court said that when people at Home Depot brought an item to checkout, they would be charged more money than was written on the shelf tag or on the item itself."