I was looking at some PC’s at Best Buy and a salesman came up to try and give me the hard sell. I asked if I could buy the PC without Windows on it for a discount.

“How would you use your computer without Windows on it?”

“I’m going to install Linux”

“What’s that?”

“It’s an operating system”

Blank stare

“Like Windows or OS X…”

Blank Stare

Sigh “I already have a copy of Windows at home”

“Oh! Well I don’t think you can do that, no.”

That was beautiful

Put a lock on the wheel and charge people $0.99 to temporarily unlock it.

Consumer: It say’s here I can subscribe to ‘Wheel Pro’ for only $69.99/month and I will automatically receive all the latest features the second they come out!

Noob: I just use WIMP, it’s free and does 99% of what Wheel Pro does. I don’t need all those extra features.

Consumer: Psh, WIMP is ugly and you can’t even adjust the tire pressure by millipascals.

Noob: They added that feature in March.

Consumer: I NEED IT FOR WORK OK!

It probably could, and don’t call me Shirley.

What is this wheel in particular designed to do? Is there any way we could make it work more efficiently at its task? Do we value performance over reliability, or vice versa?

It works fine. It’s a perfectly good wheel.

Hey where is Underwaterbob?

He’s trapped in that Jigsaw room.

The door is unlocked though?

Yeah, but there is a wheel in there and UWB won’t leave until he figures out if there is a way to improve it.

Has any one asked him to?

No

Will he get paid to improve it?

No

What does the wheel do?

You roll it out of the way so you can exit the room.

Ah, I see what you are saying. Thanks for taking the time to explain.

I guess I’m confused what that licence has to do with AI though.

I know onlinepersona put AI on the end of that link, but from what I can tell it’s just a normal copy left license.

I guess some conceivably could put such a licence on an AI generated thing, but I’m not sure they would be able to enforce it unless the model wasn’t trained on stolen data.

They might be able to copyright the prompt though.

Idk, we will probably have to rely on the courts to determine something like that, which means we will get the worst possible outcome.

You know they steal books by the library right?

Who steals books from the library? The Creative Commons Org? I tried looking it up online and can’t really find what you are referring to.

Do you mean that they literally take books from the library and never return them, or do they copy library books an slap a new license on them? Are the books that they do that to in the public domain?