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  • Look, I don’t understand whether they want states’ rights or not. Because one moment they’re in favor of the federal government having power, and the next they’re in favor of the states having power.

    Because if they want states to have power, they should only be concerned with things that affect their state. If another state makes bad decisions, we can only hope that its population corrects those mistakes as quickly as possible.

    Or if they want the federal government to have power, everyone should be informed of changes, both the population and the states. These laws should benefit the majority.

    There is also a third option: there should be a balance between state and federal power.

















  • It’s basically how any business starts today, whether it’s computers, the internet, or the industrialization of processes.

    AI is undergoing the same product life cycle, which is divided into four stages. In Stage 1, a company has a novel product, and it’s the only one, so the price is usually very high and profits are higher.

    In Stage 4, there’s fierce competition; the novel product is now available to many companies, the price is usually cheap, and profits are low. Technology companies look for developing sectors to stay in Stage 1 as much as possible and avoid reaching Stage 4.

    AI may be between Stage 1 or 2, or perhaps Stage 3 of the product life cycle. Stage 4 is still a long way off, and we’ll only say we’re in that stage if AI becomes very cheap and very common in society.






  • Japan’s Copyright Act, amended in 2019, is largely interpreted as allowing the use of copyrighted materials to train AI tools — without the consent of the copyright holder. The law, specifically more permissive than those in the EU or the US, aims to attract AI investors to the Asian country.

    It’s actually strange that Japan allows this because that country normally has very strict copyright laws compared to the EU and the United States.

    Charlie Fink, former Disney producer and current adjunct professor of cinematic AI at Chapman University, feels that the use of the rapidly developing tech will “lead to a new golden age of Hollywood,” one that would be “highly democratized, because an individual could make a film for a few thousand dollars,” he told DW

    If Fink is right in what he says, in the future, I think there will be a debate about whether AI is a good thing or a bad thing. Because if AI makes cinema a movement like free software and/or open source, it’s a win-win, right?