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1 year ago+20 20 02 authors say OpenAI 'ingested' their books to train ChatGPT. Now they're suing, and a 'wave' of similar court cases may follow.
Two award-winning authors recently sued OpenAI, accusing the generative-AI bastion of violating copyright law by using their published books to train ChatGPT without their consent. Filed in late June, the lawsuit claims that ChatGPT's underlying ...
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1 year ago+24 24 0Mobile phones and other devices to be banned from Dutch classrooms
Education ministry in the Netherlands says tech is a distraction from learning and will only be allowed if specifically needed
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1 year ago+24 24 0Laser “death ray” kills weeds 80x faster than humans
This farming robot kills 200,000 weeds per hour with lasers.
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1 year ago+17 17 0Sewer truck spill covers cars in poop on Colorado highway
Commuters on a Colorado highway are raising a stink after a sewer truck spill left their vehicles covered in apparent fecal matter.
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1 year ago+18 18 0July supermoon: When and how to see the buck moon
The buck moon will rise on Monday, July 3. It will be the first supermoon of the year, appearing brighter and slightly bigger than any other full moon in 2023 so far.
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1 year ago+24 24 0Visual misinformation is widespread on Facebook, and often undercounted by researchers
How much misinformation is on Facebook? Several studies have found that the amount of misinformation on Facebook is low or that the problem has declined over time.
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1 year ago+27 27 0New ChatGPT Lawsuits May Be Start of AI's Legal Sh-tstorm
OpenAI faces allegations of privacy invasion and violating authors’ copyright — but this may be just the tip of the iceberg
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1 year ago+18 18 0NASA aims to perform lunar mining trial within 10 years
NASA's Artemis missions and its upcoming lunar Gateway station project are part of its plans to establish a permanent presence on the Moon. Key to that will be the extraction of resources from the lunar surface, and NASA has already taken import ...
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1 year ago+19 19 0Paper trail
Canada is one of the biggest exporters of recyclable paper to India, but along with that paper comes plastic waste — lots of it.
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1 year ago+28 28 0Reddit CEO Blames 'Small Group' For Protests: 'This is Not Negotiable'
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said this week that the company still plans to charge third-party apps for data, despite widespread protests against the new policy.
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1 year ago+4 4 0The mysterious behavior of this Supergiant star hints at an impending supernova, new study
The bright, red star Betelgeuse in the constellation Orion has shown some unexpected behaviour.
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1 year ago+22 22 0Ukraine accuses Russia of destroying another dam
Ukraine has accused Russian forces of destroying another dam with the aim of slowing a counteroffensive launched by Kyiv. As rescue and relief efforts entered their seventh day for victims of the destruction of the Kakhovka hydroelectric station in K ...
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1 year ago+20 20 0White House proposes 30 percent tax on electricity used for crypto mining
The Biden administration wants to impose a 30 percent tax on the electricity used by cryptocurrency mining operations, and it has included the proposal in its budget for the fiscal year of 2024. In a blog post on the White House website, the administ ...
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1 year ago+29 29 0Amazon plans ad-supported streaming tier amid race for profitability: Report
Amazon is reportedly planning an ad-supported tier for Prime Video, joining the ranks of Netflix and Disney amid a race to make streaming more profitable.
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1 year ago+17 17 0Diablo 4: Blizzard Confirms Two Expansions in Development
Diablo general manager Rod Fergusson revealed that Diablo IV currently has two expansions in the works. Speaking with Kinda Funny Games, Fergusson said, “As I sit here we're about to launch the main game, we're finishing up season one, we&# ...
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1 year ago+19 19 0Max Has More Discovery+ Shows Than HBO Shows
And 113 fewer movies than HBO Max had before the merger with Discovery+.
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1 year ago+18 18 0The “death of self-driving cars” has been greatly exaggerated
Seven years ago, hype about self-driving cars was off the charts. It wasn’t just Tesla CEO Elon Musk—who has been making outlandish predictions about self-driving technology since 2015. In 2016, Ford set a goal to start selling cars without steering ...
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1 year ago+29 29 0Elizabeth Holmes' prison life a drastic lifestyle shift from Theranos
The disgraced Theranos founder is expected to have to get used to her new prison cell's four walls starting Tuesday.
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1 year ago+17 17 0George Maharis Dies: ‘Route 66’ & ‘Fantasy Island’ Actor Was 94
George Maharis, the Route 66 actor that left the series during the height of its popularity, died on Wednesday, May 24. He was 94. “George is well known for his stardom in Route 66, stage pro…
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1 year ago+23 23 0Actor Will Ferrell to portray John Madden in upcoming movie, according to report
Will Ferrell is slated to star as John Madden in an upcoming movie about the Hall of Fame football coach and broadcaster, according to a report.