It was a good thing; it was refreshing to smell just soap, and not fancy soap. Just an indication that the young man had recently bathed/showered with good old ivory soap.
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Leaving Walmart headed across the parking lot to my car one Friday evening. I smell a powerful plume of Axe on the breeze. Before I look around to check, I say, “I smell teenage boy,” to my husband. I hear a giggle a few rows of cars away, and there’s a couple, and there’s a teen girl giggling as her Axe-laden date/boyfriend looks sheepish. I felt bad in a “did I say that out loud” way, but it was funny.
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How else are they going to learn?
My sister was at a movie theatre with her then fiance, and leaned forward and asked the woman in the seat in front of her; “What cologne is your husband wearing? I’d like to get some for my fiance”
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All Danish KFC restaurants close temporarily
Each of the 11 Danish branches of American fast food chain KFC are to close on a temporary basis after broadcaster DR exposed bad food hygiene practices at the restaurants.The company’s West European head office told DR it was shutting shop in Denmark until a new company is found to take over the franchise. The current franchise owner is Isken ApS, which will not continue according to the report.
That comes after DR’s Kontant programme spoke with former employees who described how expiry dates on chicken used in the restaurants were extended.
If thawed chicken wasn’t used by its expiry date, new labels were printed and placed on the packaging, the former workers said.
KFC in Denmark has restaurants in Rødovre, Greve, Tilst, Horsens, Vejle, Herning, two in Odense and three in Copenhagen.
The restaurants also fared poorly in recent inspections by food hygiene authorities.
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Wow - actually shutting them down over food safety concerns? You can certainly tell that’s not the USA.
From the article: "…head office told DR it was shutting shop in Denmark until a new company [franchise owner] is found to take over the franchise."
That’s even more amazing to me. Can we adopt this practice here in the USA?
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A federal judge on Wednesday rejected a claim brought by 13 authors, including Sarah Silverman and Junot Díaz, that Meta violated their copyrights by training its AI model on their books.
Judge Vincent Chhabria concluded that Meta had engaged in “fair use” when it used a dataset of nearly 200,000 books — including the plaintiffs’ works — to train its Llama language model. The decision follows a similar ruling issued on Monday in a case against Anthropic over its language model, Claude.
How is using an entire book “fair use”?
The judge found that Llama cannot create copies of more than 50 words, and that the AI model is thus “transformative.”
Hmmm…
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Delete facebook and insta
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Hmm. While my gut instinct is to stand with the authors, I’m willing to play along just to try to understand. So let’s run the “Four-Factor” test for fair use. (I’m using Northeast WI Technical College’s explanation for reference here.)
- Character of use (which is where the transformative claim could come into play.) This covers use for satire or parody, review, commentary, and “…providing a new context or otherwise adding value.”
While I might buy the argument that the works are being used for a different purpose than originally intended, this is very firmly a commercial application, not a review, not commentary, and certainly not adding value to the original. Personally, I’d say AI training fails this part of the test, but there are (weak) arguments to say otherwise. Call it half a point in favor? (Total: 12.5% passing.)
- The nature of the work used.
Non-fiction material generally gets this one by default with works of fiction (like that written by these authors) tip towards the “get permission” end of the scale. Zero points in favor of fair use. (Total: 12.5% passing.)
- How much of the work is used?
All of it? For a commercial use? Get out. Zero points in favor of fair use. (Total: 12.5% passing, out of a potential 75% at this point in the evaluation.)
- Commercial harm to original work
Okay, given that Meta isn’t directly affecting the original works in any significant way, I’ll grudgingly give them this one. I could see arguments that using entire works could be affected by telling the resulting LLM to write something “in the style of,” but I’ll admit that’s actually a little weak. Fine, full point on this one.
Grand total: 37.5% passing grade on my evaluation of fair use criteria. Complete and utter failure and I don’t see how a judge could justify allowing this under fair use.
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I bet if you put in the right prompt, you’d get a work so close to the original that a human publishing the work would be easily sued for infringement. And the result is if they get a good enough facsimile of the original work, then they wouldn’t purchase the original work.
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Yeah, that did cross my mind and I think it’s valid. Could you put in controls to prevent this? Oh sure. Would I trust Meta to do so? No, of course not. I think I’d still grant a pass on this specific evaluation, again, begrudgingly. It’s probably fair to say that the output of such a prompt is inherent to the use of the tool and outside the scope of the evaluation. I still don’t like it, even if I can accept that interpretation.
(Of course even with full credit to this question, the overall test fails.)
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‘It’s a Killing Field’: IDF Soldiers Ordered to Shoot Deliberately at Unarmed Gazans Waiting for Humanitarian Aid
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BRB, burning things down.
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Cut off his balls and brand a “P” for pedophile on his forehead.
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So, I have been on vaca for the last week, for a wedding and R&R. Came back to notices that 3 of my neurodivergent teenagers are hospitalized with suicide attempts, one in the ICU on ECMO. I refuse to accept that my being gone for a time has anything to do with this, but holy shit, people, please take care of each other!! Yes, the current situation sucks, but we can still be kind to one another.
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I’m so sorry, and no, it’s not your fault.
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