[So now outfits that collect and search internet content want to start charging AI companies that make chatbots for the data they use to train their LLMs. Companies like Google and Amazon get this data for ‘free’ – actually, what it costs them to scrape it from the web – as it is provided also for free by billions of online consumers. The conundrum is that the very large data repositories don’t want to drive away the AI-based search engines by making their training datasets too expensive. Until now the whole purpose of those freely accessible datasets has been to have third-party search results point to the data that the Googles and Amazons make available. And since it costs tens of millions of dollars in power and processing time to make a functioning LLM, everyone involved already has skin in the game. If it ain’t broke, … . gjr]

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222 responses to “Sandbox – 30apr23”
Posted by: Paul Emery | 10 May 2023 at 10:08 AM
I’m a Green Libertarian fishmouth.
No such thing psul.
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The dam is breaking on Trumps perversions. Here’s another example from his one-time White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham:
“There was one specific staffer that worked for me, and [Trump] would request for her to be on constant trips when it wasn’t her turn — I would rotate the staffers to go on foreign trips, especially,” said Grisham. “He one time had one of my other deputies bring her back ‘so that they could look at her ass’ is what he said to him … I sat down and talked to her at one point, asked her if she was uncomfortable. I tried everything I could to ensure she was never alone with him.”
https://spoutible.com/search/posts?echo=6751298
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Posted by: psul Emery | 10 May 2023 at 10:23 AM
Going to be your next president psul!
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And you’re all for Trump right fish? That’s why you’re ashamed to use your real name. You would be a disgrace to your family if you have any.
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Posted by: psul Emery | 10 May 2023 at 11:01 AM
I wasn’t before……but I kind of have to be now psul! I mean we’ve come full circle….Trump the first time to keep Hillary out. Trump the second time to displace President Brainstem. There’s a certain beauty to it.
All Biden had to do was resist the temptation to go nuts….a caretaker presidency capping off a career of towering mediocrity and Joey Fingers couldn’t even pull that off.
Rest assured that he’ll deliver the Tangerine Tornado unto America once again! Nice work moron!
PS: this endless “disgrace to your family” thing….projection huh? I get it…wandering off to do the whole “dirty hippy thing” in 64….I’m sure it sounded like a great idea at the time didn’t it? But you know what they say…once a Dirty Hippy always a Dirty Hippy!
No undoing it!
I’m sure mom went to her grave with a frowny face. Nice work psul your unbroken streak continues!
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Never was a hippy fish. I was a Goldwater conservative in the AF Reserves.
Why can’t you explain to our readers why you’re ashamed to use your real name?
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Posted by: psul Emery | 10 May 2023 at 11:35 AM
Not buying it psul…try again.
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“I was a Goldwater conservative in the AF Reserves”
So, given his current progressivism, he’s heartless and brainless.
No “Green Libertarian(tm)” was ever on the ballot. A convenient fiction? Like Br’er Ben claiming br’erhood with Libertarians because he knew his preferred labels guaranteed derision.
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“No “Green Libertarian(tm)” was ever on the ballot.”
It’s a peculiar non-existent thing. There’s a paper by some cat named ‘Garvan Walshe’ explaining a thing he calls ‘green libertarian’ism. Mostly handwaving about shared ownership of resources and the like.
Normally I would tend to give a schlub calling themselves a green libertarian a break since they’ll be like most people, claiming affiliation with a thing they really don’t understand but like the sound of. Green? check. Liberty? check. Thank God that the component parts of ‘coprophagist’ don’t sound enticing.
All you really need in this world is a banner, a bullhorn, and the occasional slogan in any case.
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fish the fake
Once again, why can’t you explain to our readers why you’re ashamed to use your real name? Could be your family, friends, occupation religion? I don’t know why you are not proud to attach your real name to the opinions your express on this blog.
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Why aren’t you more skittish about using your real name, punch?
Oh, that’s right… the center and right don’t cancel folks.
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Gregory 4:51 – Give it up. This is an ongoing game of Paul’s that he plays because he can’t counter anything fish says with a reasoned argument. Plenty of lefties show up here with a nom de plume and Paul never slags any of them for it. Like most all lefties, the only standards Paul have are double standards.
I stopped posting with my last name because I started getting some rather “odd” emails that I can’t prove in court came from someone who had been reading my comments on this blog, but I believe there was a connection.
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Posted by: psul Emery | 10 May 2023 at 03:56 PM
Once again, why can’t you explain to our readers why you’re ashamed to use your real name?
Asked and answered on multiple occasions. You should have those memory issues checked psul! Either that or it’s time for assisted living!
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Creepy grampa joe reads whatever the 20somethings write for him and probably thinks its true –
President Joe Biden falsely claimed again on Tuesday that Republicans’ legislation to raise the debt ceiling and curb spending cuts “$22 billion in veterans’ healthcare.”
Speaking at SUNY Westchester Community College in Valhalla, New York, Biden falsely asserted that the Limit, Save, Grow Act takes aim at veterans’ benefits.
However, the Limit, Save, and Grow Act makes no mention of veterans or their health benefits but caps discretionary spending at $1.47 trillion with one percent annual increases, as Breitbart News reported when he tweeted the claim earlier this month:
The bill would also take back all unobligated COVID relief money, rescind nearly $71 billion to the IRS to hire new workers and upgrade technology, block Biden from waiving $10,000 to $20,000 in student loan debts and reduce monthly payments for undergraduate loans, repeal most of the tax breaks Democrats passed to promote their clean energy agenda, and impose work requirements for federal cash and food assistance.
Republicans said that veteran health benefits would not be touched ahead of the vote a few weeks back, and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) reiterated this while speaking with CNN in Israel last week
VoteVets even launched an advertisement claiming that veterans could die as a result of the legislation, a claim Kessler said warranted four Pinocchio’s.
“The VoteVets ad, using the White House numbers as a source, takes the spin to a Four-Pinocchio extreme, suggesting veterans may die when in fact no vote on the fiscal 2024 Veterans Affairs budget has yet been cast,” he wrote.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/05/10/biden-falsely-claims-gops-debt-ceiling-bill-would-cut-veterans-healthcare/
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Looks like the desperation for ratings caused the clinton news network to bite off more than they can chew –
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/05/10/trump-hijacks-cnn-steamrolls-kaitlan-collins-in-new-hampshire-townhall-you-are-a-nasty-person/
https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2023/05/10/fact-check-cnn-kaitlan-collins-claims-more-200-mass-shootings-2023/
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People flee from the groomers at the mouse house that used to be family friendly –
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2023/05/10/disney-subscriptions-plummet-by-4-million-as-studio-keeps-pushing-transgender-drag-queen-content/
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OMG!! Good to see Dylan Mulvaney taking another run at stardom after the whole Bud Light thing went so wrong!!
https://nypost.com/2023/05/10/cnn-to-offer-don-lemons-former-co-host-kaitlan-collins-networks-primtetime-9-p-m-slot-report/
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So much for going all electric –
Ford Introduces a New Gas-Powered Truck Aimed at Global Dominance
The all-new Ranger pickup shows that Ford F +0.25% ‘s truck leadership extends beyond the U.S. It also shows that gasoline-powered trucks will be on roads, making money for the company, for a long time to come.
https://www.barrons.com/articles/ford-new-gas-powered-truck-stock-6885a215?siteid=yhoof2
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HAHA they got punked –
CNN should be ashamed of themselves,” lamented socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). “They have lost total control of this ‘town hall’ to again be manipulated into platforming election disinformation, defenses of Jan 6th, and a public attack on a sexual abuse victim. The audience is cheering him on and laughing at the host.”
“This is a Trump infomercial,” lamented Meghan McCain.
“This is an irresponsible disaster of journalism. We have absolutely learned nothing,” said Matt Fuller of the Daily Beast.
“This is really not going how CNN must have thought or hoped it would go,” said Yahoo News senior correspondent Michael Weiss. “He is steamrolling, getting laughs for his crassest comments, and seems far more self-assured and confident than someone this deep in the soup should be.”
He’s got total control of this interview and Kaitlin Collins is getting utterly incinerated.
Trump calls Collns a “nasty person” on stage.
The crowd, made up of GOP voters in New Hampshire, cheers.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/05/10/trump-infomercial-backlash-erupts-cnn-hosting-former-president/
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Bidens Made Millions Exchanging Political Favors For Foreign Money, Then Tried To Cover It Up: Oversight Report
https://thefederalist.com/2023/05/10/bidens-made-millions-exchanging-political-favors-for-foreign-money-then-tried-to-cover-it-up-oversight-report/
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Remember just last week when we had that banner jobs report…..
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/job-market-cracks-initial-claims-unexpectedly-soar-highest-october-2021
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One has to wonder if this is how the criminal idiot savant (Joey Fingers) is going to make his escape……
I mean they must know the end is near…..why not pick an end at your preferred time and of your own making?
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/us-default-would-lead-clearinghouse-collapse-and-shockwave-catastrophic-treasury-margin
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