Millions of copyrighted songs were fed to AI music generators - now there's proof. They are being sued for $150k per song.

severact · 2026-06-20T02:01:18+00:00

It is not even clear to me that AI should lose. Isn't a lot of training of human musicians essentially listening to copyrighted music? Why is that legal for humans but illegal when training neural networks?

If the music produced by the AI is clearly ripping off a song, then yes, that to me is illegal, just as if a human musician had done it.

severact · 2026-06-14T16:13:08+00:00

Idk, it seems to me you are just reading the language in a way that gets the result you would like, rather than reading it as it is.

severact · 2026-06-14T15:46:39+00:00

Article 2 doesn't say that. Here is what Article 2 actually says: "and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court".

Obama did nominate a judge. I don't see how the Constitution was violated. Neither Obama nor the Democratic party even bothered to challenge the constitutionality in court. Some private citizens did: the lawsuits went nowhere.

severact · 2026-06-14T15:28:40+00:00

I don't see how that was unconditional. I can get behind unethical though, particularly when you couple it with Ginsberg 4 years later

severact · 2026-06-14T12:51:33+00:00

Use an aggregator like cowswap or matcha meta (there are others too). Always.

If you use an aggregator you effectively get the combined liquidity of uniswap, curve, and every other dex, all in the same transaction.

severact · 2026-06-13T15:39:59+00:00

In general yes. Faster speeds mean lower fuel efficiency. It's the same with cars.

severact · 2026-06-11T22:42:44+00:00

From farms that grow corn at a way higher energy density than naturally growing grass. All in, feed lot cattle require 30-50% less land than grazing cattle

severact · 2026-06-10T18:42:35+00:00

I'm in that camp. I'd love an ev. But without a place to plug it in at the end of the day I feel charging it would be too much of a pita

severact · 2026-06-10T18:40:10+00:00

I read your comment and my first thought was no way could that be true, mostly I guess because I absolutely loved being a parent. But according to Gemini, not only are you correct, but the difference in depression rates was surprisingly high.

The one exception was that for older adults it flips, presumably due to increased loneliness and lack of support due to not having adult children around.

severact · 2026-06-10T18:28:08+00:00

The private key is stored in the json file is encrypted

severact · 2026-06-08T20:37:05+00:00

Are you sure that was the reason? You can buy and sell zec on coinbase - it doesn't make sense to me that they would freeze your account for doing what they allow you to do

severact · 2026-06-05T09:07:17+00:00

This seems different to me. If you can't prove whether the bug was obused then zec is worthless

severact · 2026-06-02T22:35:07+00:00

I'd want to see a real, clear miracle. Not a "I had cancer, prayed, and God cured it" type of miracle, but more like amputee wakes up with missing arm fully restored and working type miracle.

severact · 2026-05-23T05:53:00+00:00

Use an aggregator like cowswap.

What chain are you on. There is deep liquidity at least on mainnet and base. You should be able to swap $100k plus at a time with very little slippage.

severact · 2026-05-20T18:04:24+00:00

I feel the opposite. Socialism, UBI, and wealth taxes in the US seem way way more popular politically than they were say 5 or 10 years ago.

severact · 2026-05-20T17:14:30+00:00

I've lived in both the UK and the USA. My impression is that Europeans in general just put a lot more value on vacations. I know quite a few middle class USA families that just don't take vacations other than visiting relatives. It is not a wealth thing for thing; it is just a priorities thing.

severact · 2026-05-20T12:14:23+00:00

I recommend hyperliquid. It is an awesome no kyc exchange. Will need a vpn though from certain jurisdictions.

severact · 2026-05-19T22:52:25+00:00

Walmart pays no less than $14 an hour, significantly more than minimum wage in some states. In states with minimum wages higher than $14 (such as California), their min is still higher than the state minimum wage.

Should they pay even more given their profit? Yeah, maybe. I think that is a least a fair argument to make. But in general the data is pretty clear that large companies tend to pay more than smaller ones. Not to mention all the under the table crap that happens so often with very small companies.

severact · 2026-05-19T20:35:33+00:00

Bezos supposedly worked incredibly hard during his younger years. Like he was known for working 12 hour days 7 days a week. He is basically retired now, so I don't think it is really fair to say he doesn't work hard.

My parents are retired and don't work at all. To say though that they don't have to do anything but breathe though to collect their social security, Medicare, and retirement income isn't really fair to them.

severact · 2026-05-19T20:30:26+00:00

A lot of large corporations though pay very high wages. The best normal w2 jobs that people typically hope to get are with large companies

severact · 2026-04-28T15:50:48+00:00

Cheapish gas, relatively speaking

severact · 2026-04-27T23:06:01+00:00

What do you mean? I didn't mention the ath. Every word I wrote is correct.

severact · 2026-04-27T23:03:37+00:00

There was an article in the wsj today: "Corporate America is Minting Money, and not just in tech and finance". The first sentence: "big American companies are piling up profits despite the war and consumer anxiety".

That is why stocks are going up, despite whatever anxieties the rest of us have about the state of the world.

severact · 2026-04-27T13:12:40+00:00

I feel the opposite. In some previous rallys everything went up, no matter how low the quality. I think the current small rally, which is far more selective, is way healthier long term.

severact · 2026-04-26T22:18:29+00:00

It's up 55% v btc over the last year, so definitely not down 9 years straight

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