Meta says that hacked books are both invaluable and worthless
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The people of the library, I have interesting updates in which dive. In addition to the usual lot of censorship and updates on legislation, there is an analysis of the head of the Meta legal defense to use texts protected by copyright to form its AI model, as well as some unusual reflections on gender.
Legislation and prosecution against the prohibition of books
It was a few weeks busy for the ban on books and the current prosecution. Here are some key developments to note.
Meta says that hacked books are both invaluable and worthless
Vanity The editor -in -chief Keziah Weir deepened in the documents surrounding the immense trial of Meta Copyright, and learned that the legal defense of Meta depends on the idea that a collection of 7 million texts protected by copyright is invaluable for the development of their data models on AI, However, individual texts are “essentially, worthless”. Or, as Weir says, it’s like arguing against the payment of each player in a symphony because only one bassoonist cannot play all games in “The Rite of Spring”. This is a level of mental gymnastics that could compete with Simone Biles, and sincerely I hope that the assigned judge looks at this argument and says: “Lol, WTF, no.”
Non -attractive romance
I cannot improve this title of Lithub: “Gender alert: women who are sexually attracted to planes … and other non -intensive objects. »» Although it is true that there is a literary story of human characters falling in love with non -attractive things, for lack of a better word (Pygmalion and the Gilgamesh Epic are mentioned), the article focuses on recent books with titles such as Drop And Daddy. It should be mentioned that the names named are much more in line with literary fiction than romance (and are therefore not subject to the strict tropes of true gender fiction), but again, we have obtained a romantic novel called Kiss the coronavirus In April 2020, so … we will see how this trend takes place.
What’s going on when people do not understand science fiction?
In more news related to the gender, the question on The guardian The mind is whether science fiction or not will end up destroying the world. Or, as I interpreted the question, Do assholes like Elon Musk will destroy the world because they do not understand the nuance of science fiction? It is one thing to completely miss the purpose of a novel or a genre (I look at you, men who idolize Patrick Bateman), but that is another thing when people who deserve it badly use this misunderstanding as the foundation of their inner ego and also exercise enormous economic, technological and political powers on a global scale. It is as if they became the bad guys in their own science fiction story, except that it is not fiction, it is real life and millions of people will suffer because these baboons have not acquired the skills of critical thinking at school. (Apologies to real baboons.)
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