Wikipedia is giving away its volunteers' hard work and research efforts to train AI. It is an effort to fend off bot scrapers and reduce the strain on its servers — but to me it seems like that's not what most Creative Commons proponents have in mind when they sign on to help Wikipedia.
https://www.theverge.com/news/650467/wikipedia-kaggle-partnership-ai-dataset-machine-learning
h/t @dave
https://social.masto.land/@dave/114352800317662714
#AI #IP #IntellectualProperty #CC #GNU #Wikipedia

Manifesting #acting work in this social media era can be challenging because preparation of provided material, self-recording of audition material, and video-conferenced auditions generally involve intellectual property (IP), which is protected and which the #actor does not own, and non-disclosure agreements (NDA), which prevent sharing of said #IP.

So, here’s a blurry, backlit image of my ear and a field and a dead tree’s limbs. Fingers crossed for booking this gig on optimal dates.

Fascinating - encoding #music so that it becomes unreadable and untrainable for #AI models while still sounding normal to human ears.

https://youtu.be/xMYm2d9bmEA

We don’t pay enough attention to how easy it can be to hack the technology so much of the world is adopting way too quickly without sufficient safeguards and testing.

It’s also fascinating to watch creators making technology to counter the theft of their #IP by AI companies

They can start by releasing their trade secrets.
Next, abandon their trademarks.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/13/jack-dorsey-and-elon-musk-would-like-to-delete-all-ip-law/

"Donald Trump’s tariffs demand a response. Around the world, that response has defaulted to retaliatory tariffs — a strategy with severe and obvious drawbacks. After years of pandemic shocks and greedflation, people around the globe have severe inflation fatigue, and few governments are eager to risk further price hikes. And while the world is rightly furious at Trump’s talk of annexation and other belligerent acts, that anger is unlikely to translate into popular support for higher prices on everyday goods. If there’s one lesson that politicians everywhere have metabolized over the past twenty-four months, it’s that any government that presides over inflationary price rises is likely to be out of a job come the next election.

Luckily there is another policy response to tariffs — one that will substantially lower prices for America’s tariff-clobbered trading partners while incubating profitable, export-oriented domestic tech firms. These firms could sell tools and services to local businesses, to the benefit of the world’s news and culture industries, software firms, and consumers alike.

That response? Repealing “anticircumvention laws” that prohibits domestic firms from reverse-engineering “digital locks.” These anticircumvention laws stop the world’s farmers from fixing their John Deere tractors; they stop mechanics from diagnosing your car; they stop technologists from creating their own app stores for phones and games consoles."

https://jacobin.com/2025/04/ip-anticircumvention-tech-trump-tariffs

Will they even be able to make a call?
Gen Z vs Vintage Phones (Rotary, DTMF, IP Phone and more)

YouTube video: https://youtu.be/crOixebqkto?

feature=shared
#phone #iphone #android #rotary #pulse #challenge #call #ip #phonecall

https://www.europesays.com/1983306/ Entertainment at Epic Universe | shows, interactives #america #AttractionsTechnology #BrandExperiences #Entertainment #health #IP #Orlando #sports #ThemeParkConstruction #ThemeParkDesign #ThemeParkInvestment #ThemedEntertainment #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #UniversalStudios #US #USA

My ISP gave me an interesting scare a couple of minutes ago. As you know if you do not want to pay them for a permanent IPv4 address, which I consider obsolete networking, they remotely reboot your gateway device and assign it a random IP out of one of their IPv4 pools.

This time it didn't take the usual long 30 to 90 Seconds to reboot the device and transfer credentials to obtain the new IP.
The Gateway got in an infinite loop somewhere and I had to Power it off, then had to wait 90 seconds to power cycle it before it took 180 seconds for the device to finally get the new IP.

Someone screwed up the login sequences for the xDSL devices of which the hashtag is in the toot and now we as the paying customer again have to pay for it in wasted time.

Luckily this power cycling off xDSL devices occurs only once in 6 weeks and usually I do not use the internet at that point in time.

In case you are wondering my Gateway uses obsolete technology, is forcibly assigned by the ISP and it's also cursed with a extremely low transfer speed.

I just included a speedtest after first draft of this toot

As you can see the speeds here are so low the connection is virtually unusable for anything where you have to move a big bites of data. They still manage to extort more than USD 30 a month for this connection

DEAR #IP #PATENT LAWYERS,
am still watching pre-code movies, particularly movies around 1928 the year Jazz Man came out and talkies became a thing.

one thing i’ve noticed are the big PATENT NOTICES at the beginning of talkies. that has made me wonder: i have not noticed patent notices at the beginning of silent movies.

so i ask: is this why there were a fuckton of independent silent film makers? did sound film #patents help concentrate power into the Hollywood studios monopsony?

"More than a decade ago, Congress tried to pass SOPA and PIPA—two sweeping bills that would have allowed the government and copyright holders to quickly shut down entire websites based on allegations of piracy. The backlash was immediate and massive. Internet users, free speech advocates, and tech companies flooded lawmakers with protests, culminating in an “Internet Blackout” on January 18, 2012. Turns out, Americans don’t like government-run internet blacklists. The bills were ultimately shelved.

Thirteen years later, as institutional memory fades and appetite for opposition wanes, members of Congress in both parties are ready to try this again.

The Foreign Anti-Digital Piracy Act (FADPA), along with at least one other bill still in draft form, would revive this reckless strategy. These new proposals would let rights holders get federal court orders forcing ISPs and DNS providers to block entire websites based on accusations of infringing copyright. Lawmakers claim they’re targeting “pirate” sites—but what they’re really doing is building an internet kill switch.

These bills are an unequivocal and serious threat to a free and open internet. EFF and our supporters are going to fight back against them."

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/congress-reviving-site-blocking-and-its-just-dangerous-ever

Guy runs an experiment to see Just how easy is it to wrangle from GPT that which is very clearly someone else’s IP… Results are interesting, it’s not hard turns out. Some guardrails do exist for very recognizable characters, but that has not prevented LLMs from returning copyrighted IP on image prompts. Or from stealing studio-specific styles, characters and designs for memes - which has led to ‘Ghiblifying’ everything. #StudioGhibli #LLM #LLMs #Image #copyright #IP #AI #ChatGPT #ImagePrompts #AIImage #AIImages #legal

https://theaiunderwriter.substack.com/p/an-image-of-an-archeologist-adventurer

Проброс сайта, не имеющего глобального IP-а́дреса, из локальной сети на свой сервер в Интернете (обратный прокси) через сеть Yggdrasil
https://multed.com/2024/04/03/nginx-and-yggdrasill.html

Question to the network people out there:

Are there any ISPs that are IPv6 only (without providing a NAT/whatever)?

Background: Having an argument with a provider that hasn't published any AAAA records, and whilst I think that's poor form, I'm wondering if this would actually negatively affect any actual users in practice?

It's getting boring and annoying that so many #left leaning people talk out of both sides of their mouth when it comes to #AI. They complain about violating #copyright and #IP, concepts that support #capitalism, and invented by #capitalists, while also whining about capitalism. Do you support the institutions of capitalism or not? Make up your fucking minds. Shit like this is what makes people roll their eyes about the left. One of the things I like about #RichardDWolff is that he doesn't make the #fascists arguments for them, because he doesn't acknowledge they have any merit to begin with.