Notices by Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social), page 3

There is *no better way* to thank me than to back this Kickstarter and encourage your friends to do the same:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doctorow/red-team-blues-another-audiobook-that-amazon-wont-sell

Preselling a ton of audiobooks, ebooks, and print books is a huge boost to the book on its launch - incomparable, really. Invaluable.

What's more, helping me find a viable way to produce popular, widely heard audiobooks without submitting to Amazon's DRM lock-in sets an example for other creators and publishers.

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These campaigns didn't just pay my bills (especially during lockdown, when our household income plunged), but they also showed other authors that it was possible to evade Amazon's monopoly chokepoint and sell books that aren't sticky-traps for Audible's walled garden/prison:

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/columns-and-blogs/cory-doctorow/article/90282-we-wrote-a-book-about-why-audible-won-t-sell-our-book-and-snuck-it-onto-audible.html

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Audible is #Amazon's monopoly audiobook platform. It has a death-grip on the audiobook market, commanding more than 90% of genre audiobook sales, and *every single one* of those audiobooks is sold with Amazon's DRM on it. That means that you can't break up with Amazon without throwing away those audiobooks. Under the 1998 #DigitalMillenniumCopyrightAct, I can't give you a tool to convert my own copyrighted audiobooks to a non-Amazon format.

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@jos @NireBryce Baldur Bjarnason suggests that regulation:

1. Clarifies that those running the service are responsible as a publisher for the text their AIs spit out. To the same degree as they are for employees.
2. Requires disclosure of the use of LLM technologies.
3. Training sets should be opt-in & (I think more importantly) public.

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2023/regulating-ai/

what is it, $250,000 per infringement that they hit filesharers with? I figure it's gotta be at least 100k people they've violated the copyright of, minimum, right?

25 billion seems like reasonable damages, but I'm sure they'd find a way to push it higher by lying to the judge

remember that pushing for stronger copyright protections re: "AI" only works if you push for it to apply retroactively, otherwise OpenAI just trained their models on all of this and all of their competitors can't.

shit sucks.

@alpinefolk wow, *so* with you on the Adobe thing. They're another really shit corporation. @elias @gemlog

@gemlog After a brief skim, I'd say they're probably folks who develop proprietary software & adjusts their definition to exclude them.

So in a sense, yes they'd be paid defenders!

@suricrasia *Wakes up on the USS Eldridge in 1943*?

What if…

[uncomfortable looks]

… certain problems are systemic…

[a member of the audience lets out an audible gasp]

… and require systemic solutions.

[shock, horror, people frothing with rage]

@lightweight You might appreciate this commentary I read this morning... https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2023/regulating-ai/

@richardh @lightweight @swansinflight Catalyst is handling all the details, but Cloudflare does now support e2e encryption. Where they drop connections for known bot addresses.

Today I'm seeing @alcinnz and @lightweight talk about "jurisdictional issues" which would be a good topic for a longer conversation, maybe a blog post or wiki page or something...?

Direct cash support for one family about to be displaced by#Minneapolis city structural violence: $biqmama19 Ashley Cook

Whoa, only just saw this: https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/2018883758/should-official-govt-data-be-hosted-by-overseas-cloud-providers This all needs to be on-shore with *NZ-owned* (not US owned!!) hosting providers. https://catalystcloud.nz is totally right about this.

@lightweight @swansinflight They do know route all traffic to them through Cloudflare, presumably because they actually faced DDoS attacks. But as long as you encrypt, treating the network between you & CatalystCloud as being untrusted (good practice anyways!), there is no jurisdictional risk.

I investigated this for a client...

@OpenComputeDesign I voted "no", but I do have an external one. So I could digitize my childhood DVDs. And my father's homevideos, which was also transferred to DVDs.

Didn't miss DVD drives until I didn't have one...

@lightweight You won't like this: Our facial recognition firm Auror (yeah, I don't approve of their business...) uses MS Azure.

As generative #AI tools get better at tricking us into believing what they generate is true, I think we need to recognize a new Internet Law:

> Without clearly marking them as such, it is impossible to share AI-generated works without *someone* treating them as real.

Basically, Poe's Law applied to AI-generated stuff.

This will become increasingly important to acknowledge as our communication gets flooded with AI hallucinations.

Incidentally I do not plan to use GPTs/LLMs in Haphaestus. The closest I'd use is a machine translation model.

There's a very solid reason for this beyond my disinterest: I'm striving to avoid text input, not embrace it. That's what suits TVs!