That's very interesting. The senators in the chamber seem to be suppressing smiles throughout.

I know my work (as a translator) is protected by moral rights in Europe, but don't know what those rights cover. Which I suppose is what the German lawsuit, and other ongoing cases in Europe, are trying to establish.

This would come down to what so many US legal questions come down to: who can afford to protect their rights. LLM manufacturers make gazillions off artists' work, and artists' only recourse is to track down and sue every person who knowingly or unknowingly plagiarizes them.

I see. So your point is that the end user should be liable if they then publish that work or otherwise infringe on the original creator's copyright. I wonder how laws written on that model would affect the bottom line of companies making LLMs. It would make using their products even more risky.

If you're referring to prohibiting the use of whole paragraphs of text without the creator's permission, that wouldn't be a new right, it would be the same old right to not be plagiarized. But I may have misunderstood your comment.

The fact that some LLMs have been shown to use texts in ways that would be legally categorized as plagiarism in the US, such as pasting in whole paragraphs from "training" texts, will hopefully lead to appeals to this judge's ruling in future.

Yes, the judge's ruling stated that using legally obtained texts to train LLMs was fair use because it is "transformative". For the AG, getting some compensation for authors was a victory, but considered a "first step" to the establishment of an LLM training licensing system. We'll see.

Correction--the settlement was in September.

There are a ton of lawsuits going on in the US and elsewhere. sustainabletechpartner.com/topics/ai/ge...

The Author's Guild won a similar case in the US last month. www.npr.org/2025/09/05/n...

The sweater it came from was always a bit tight, so I thought I would try working it from the top down, with a deep v-neck and sleeves that stop wherever I run out of yarn. See if I have enough yarn for something that fits. Working title: Skinflint Sweater.

Thanks for helping test it!

Houston, we have five rows til separation... four... three... two...

I think it's a terrible idea.

I would prefer to just keep all the test knit messaging on Ravelry. It's much easier to have everyone's messages in one place. Alright with you?

Just to clarify--there was a problem with the business email address I sent on Ravelry, so I sent my personal address in a new message.

I've already sent my email in a Ravelry message. Just email me at that address, and I can send you the pattern. (Also, when I search for Mullaneygem on instagram, there doesn't seem to be any user by that name.)

Hi! Just messaged you on Ravelry again with my email address. Hopefully it works this time.

Excellent! I'll pop over to Ravelry and find you.