NEWS! Man defends his use of copyright football streams by insisting he needs them to 'train his AI model' https://newsthump.com/2025/06/02/man-defends-his-use-of-copyright-football-streams-by-insisting-he-needs-them-to-train-his-ai-model/
Hahaha I just saw someone call ChatGPT “Grand Theft Autocorrect” 😆
'Impossible' to create a decent media library on my salary without copyrighted material, Angie says.
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In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded 70GBs of articles from JSTOR. He faced $1 million fine and 35 years in jail. He took his life in 2013.
Meta illegaly downloaded 80+ terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their AI models without any punishment.
It's fascinating that the vast majority of computer scientists are so publicly and strongly critical of generative AI systems as they are currently being deployed by Big Tech -- unless they happen to be working for one of those firms.
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The EU is introducing an energy label for phones, together with mandatory requirements for phones sold in the EU;
- 5 years of software updates (AFTER they stop selling the device in the EU)
- providing important hardware parts (during sale and for 7 years after), including free software (if needed), to every repair shop, within 5-10 business days
- batteries have to make 800 charging cycles and still be above 80% original capacity
And on top of that, phones and tablets need this energy label from 20 June 2025, which also includes a fall damage durability and repairability score.
(https://energy-efficient-products.ec.europa.eu/product-list/smartphones-and-tablets_en)
