Unexpected laughs thanks to the gargantuan opinion in Getty v. Stability AI (the stuff below concerns the application of the standard of average consumer in trademark law)

I only just noticed the title of the show in the 'Hackers' which Zero Cool stops after telling the racist anchor 'Yak, yak, yak...get a job'.

My brain apparently still lives in the 1990s and it's hard to get used to the fact that the tech-savvy racists actually pretty much run the show now.

Hmmm.

Hm.

On the same day, I read about EU wanting to "cut the the eco-related red tape" and this. Crystal blue lakes in Greenland turning brown and becoming CO2 sources, not sinks. Just like that, abruptly. But yeah, let's keep worrying about "competitiveness" and "red tape".

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

In line with my rebellious nature, I finally deactivated my 'professional' X account. Which leaves me with only one more, the one used solely to follow Polish politics (what this says about my nature, I don't even want to know).

47 stars on 25 December in #AdventOfCode - I think this is my personal best or close to it. One more task to go, but it's gotta wait for another day.

I should say that I wasted a lot of hours in December on this, but it makes no sense to call this effort a waste. Better than any crossword puzzle!

I still haven't solved today's Advent of Code, so I must post about law :( What's the status of text and data mining of code under EU copyright law? The article may or may not include words such as 'lexer' and 'tokenizer', and only a very small part is about genAI. academic.oup.com/grurint/adva...

Still in the game! #AdventOfCode

So far so not that bad, but as always, something is going to kick the crap out of my "skills" pretty soon #AdventOfCode

Now back to lawyering...

Robocop vs. Directive 4.

So, as for the 'rare bugs' of GPT that cause it to 'regurgitate' stuff. In June I checked if it would give me a public domain poem and Metallica's song. It gave both. In December, it gave me only the first. Today I tried another way and you can see the model going 'ooops' and the safety kicking in 🤐

I'm going to insist that the two biggest mistakes in the history of life on Earth were the Neolithic Revolution and whatever made fish go out of water in the Devonian.

"Forward, Research Project!
Charge for the funding!” he said.
Into the valley of Low Success Rate*
Rode the grant application."

* -> 10,9% in 2022 for the Polish National Science Center and legal studies. I fully expect it to be lower this year.

I see your meme and raise.

<interesting read, by the way! and it nicely shows why it's better to have judges who, broadly speaking, did stuff before they got to the bench>

"Was getting loaded into RAM part of your plan?"
"Of course!"

On my way to the Cyberspace 2023 in Brno to talk about C-159/23 Sony v. Datel a.k.a. the videogame copyright case that is actually not exactly just about videogames.

Here is me this June, preparing slides (or maybe grading essays?) for a copyright workshop and listening to 'The Battle of the Mounds'. I realized what face I made when Conan was just about to hack the first Thulsa Doom's bad guy, so I froze and fired up the webcam just to save it for posterity.

I love the smell of author’s copies in the morning. The smell, you know that fresh print smell? Smells like…publications.

(Essay idea: Academic Publish or Perish vs. Apocalypse Now - compare and contrast)

You mean "are"? Here's one of my favourite dinosaurs!