Leftovers

• Thorsten Ball ☛ Second's an Eternity

  That means turning the curves into pixels, as best as you can because no one likes blurry text, and maybe doing that with the CPU or maybe doing that with the GPU but ultimately ending up with pixels on the GPU and then the GPU positions the pixels according to all the calculations you did for positioning, line-breaks, character spacing, line spacing, font weight, and every other damn thing you can apparently do with fonts.

• Analog Office ☛ Index card system to track daily, weekly, and monthly routines

  This system is a mini tickler file system. But rather than tracking things through a year, this one is based on a weekly rhythm.

• Lou Plummer ☛ The Random Joy Blogging Brings

  I'm committed to blogging. It's something I do every day. i don't wait for a good mood. I don't wait for inspiration. I just sit down and make it happen. That might not sound joyful, but it truly is. Each night i go to bed with the satisfaction of completing an important daily goal, but there's more joy in blogging than just checking something off a to do list. Here are a few other elements of the experience that make me happy.

• Hardware

  • Jeff Geerling ☛ Radxa X4 SBC Unites Intel N100 and Raspberry Pi RP2040

    First: is the Intel CPU too hot for a board this small? After running my SBC benchmarks, the answer is 'yes'.

    There's almost no way you could run this thing without active cooling, and Radxa's own heatsink enclosure is just not adequate. In fact, at least in the first production batch, the thermal pad was crumbly and didn't make great contact for most testers.

• Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

  • Better late than never, the ABIM finally revokes two board certifications

    Once again, I find myself not having posted new content in a while after having said that I had hoped to get back to regular posting soon. The reasons are numerous and boil down to some bad things having happened in my life over the last few weeks that have taken up a lot of my time to deal with, but you don’t need to know all that. Ironically, though, sometimes when I see something happen relevant to my blogging, particularly when it’s an update to a story that I’ve been writing about for something like two years now, it shakes me out of my torpor. Who knows? It might even be enough to prod me to get back to regular life (and maybe even blogging), especially now that things appear to have stabilized again. So it was when, last week, I noticed that the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) had finally reached the end of a process that had been to this point pathetically slow and revoked the board certifications of two of the biggest quacks to have emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic, Drs. Pierre Kory and Paul Marik. It’s even shown up in articles in medical news outlets like Medscape:

  • Brandon ☛ On Working Out

    It works for me. I'm feeling healthy. My clothes aren't fitting again (in the good they-are-too-big way). And it seems to be working. If my family decides to join me I'll probably give up the massage chairs at Planet Fitness in favor of the YMCA and their aquatic aerobics classes but for now this works for me.

  • The Independent UK ☛ Pakistan admits it cannot find mpox patient as tighter screening to be introduced at airports

    Pakistan says it is introducing new screening at airports after confirming at least one case of mpox infection, days after the World Health Organisation declared a global emergency over the virus.

  • Futurism ☛ New AI Can Accurately Detect Health Conditions By Just Looking At Your Tongue

    The proposed research system automates the ancient medical practice of tongue diagnosis with the help of modern machine learning.

    As detailed in a new paper published in the journal Technologies, teaching hospitals in the Middle East supplied the researchers with 60 photos of tongues to feed into their algorithm, each from patients with various health conditions ranging from gastrointestinal issues to COVID-19.

• Proprietary/Artificial Intelligence (AI)

  • New Statesman ☛ I, for one, will mourn Twitter

    To those who never made their home on the network, this may sound a little sad; and I’m aware, too, that I’m white, cis, male, and in possession of almost every other characteristic that makes life on the internet more bearable. (The worst abuse I tend to encounter is the suggestion I could stand to lose some weight… which, yes.) Nonetheless: it’s no exaggeration to say that Twitter changed my life. After nearly a decade working for trade mags that were worthy and even interesting, but whose names tended to make people’s eyes glaze over, it allowed me to get to know editors at more mainstream titles. That led me to a job at the New Statesman, and that led to everything I do now. From podcasts to books to the fact there are those who’ll pay directly for my writing on Substack: for all of those things, I have Twitter to thank.

  • Security Week ☛ Cloud Misconfigurations Expose 110,000 Domains to Extortion in Widespread Campaign

    As part of the large-scale extortion campaign, Palo Alto Networks warned that the attackers targeted 110,000 domains through exposed .env files containing sensitive information, which were stored on unsecured web applications and misconfigured servers.

    These .env files allow organizations to define configuration variables for their web applications, and often include hard-coded access keys for cloud services, SaaS API keys, and database login information.

  • Futurism ☛ Google's AI Traffic Light Project May Have Been a Mistake

    Google claims that its quietly rolled-out AI traffic signal project streamlines the process and reduces stoplight wait times — but it's unclear exactly how helpful it really is.

    Initially piloted in 2021, Google's Project Greenlight is, as Scientific American explains, built on an algorithmic model that is supposed to be an alternative to the other two major systems of traffic signal control in use today.

    While relying on either manually adjusted and fixed light changes or belowground sensors that let the systems know how many cars are at a given intersection, traffic design and control have long been a headache for urban planners.

• Security

  • Integrity/Availability/Authenticity

    • The Guardian UK ☛ ‘It could disappear for ever’: Anger over sale of George Orwell archive

      Crucial correspondence involving the Nineteen Eighty-Four author and Observer correspondent is being offered for sale on the open market, following a decision in 2018 by the publisher’s parent company to sell the archive because the warehouse was closing.

  • Privacy/Surveillance

    • TechCrunch ☛ US appeals court rules geofence warrants are unconstitutional

      Geofence warrants, also known as “reverse” search warrants, allow police to draw a shape on a map, such as over a crime scene, and demand that Google (or any other company that collects user locations) search its entire banks of location data for any phone or device that was in that area at a specific point in time.

      But critics have long argued that geofence warrants are unconstitutional because they can be overbroad and include information on entirely innocent people.

    • New York Times ☛ Palantir’s Alex Karp Talks About War, AI and America’s Future

      In a rare in-depth interview, this billionaire man of mystery, the head of Palantir Technologies, talks about war, A.I. and America’s future.

• Defence/Aggression

  • India Times ☛ social media limits: Gen Z users oppose social media limits: poll

    According to a study designed by the Stanford Deliberative Democracy Lab, more than 60% of newly registered voters in the US oppose requiring kids under age 16 to seek parental consent to use social media. More than 85% of young people think there should be no time limits on when they can receive social media notifications.

  • VOA News ☛ Safety at Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant deteriorating after strike, says IAEA

    Russia has been in control of the Zaporizhzhia site, the largest nuclear power plant in Europe, since soon after it launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

  • Pro Publica ☛ Inside the Turbulent, Secret World of the AP3 Militia

    Organized Vigilantism: AP3 has already sought to shape American life through armed vigilante operations — at the Texas border, outside ballot boxes and during Black Lives Matter protests. Close Ties With Police: AP3 leaders have forged alliances with law enforcement around the U.S. Internal files reveal their strategies for building these ties and where they’ve claimed success.

  • Futurism ☛ Ukraine Is Getting Ready to Unleash a Swarm of Robot Dogs

    The robot dog has a battery run time of two hours, an onboard thermal imaging system, and a kill switch that erases all of its data if the robot would fall in the hands of the Russians.

    It just goes to show how military forces will use and push technology to their limit in order to gain a battlefield advantage, even if the results look like they came out of the "Terminator" movies.

  • VOA News ☛ Venezuela attacks UN with 'propaganda' accusation for reporting election transparency issues

    A panel of experts from the United Nations bolstered allegations that Venezuela’s July 28 presidential election result was deeply flawed.

    The government-aligned National Electoral Council, or CNE, of Venezuela certified the vote for incumbent President Nicolas Maduro on July 29 without releasing tabulated precinct-level official results, sparking nationwide protests.

    The four-member U.N. team, which spent a month on the ground in the run-up to the poll, said the CNE “fell short of the basic transparency and integrity measures” that are essential to holding credible elections.

  • ABC ☛ 16 killed, 20 abducted in Congo in attacks blamed on Islamic State-linked rebels

    At least 16 villagers were killed and 20 others were abducted in northeastern Congo during attacks by militants with ties to the Islamic State group, a local civil society group said Friday.

  • Christian Daily International ☛ Nigeria continues to tolerate terrorism, USCIRF states

    “Islamist and some Fulani militant groups have expressed a goal of overthrowing secular governance with the intention of enforcing a singular interpretation of Islam,” states the report, released on Friday (Aug. 9).

    About 30,000 “Fulani bandits” operate in several groups in northwest Nigeria in groups of 10 to 1,000 members, engaging in “violence and banditry targeting predominantly Christian communities in Nigeria and generally pose the greatest security threat in northwest Nigeria,” the report states.

    Their crimes include kidnapping, rape, property and cattle theft, illegal possession of weapons and murder.

• Transparency/Investigative Reporting

  • The Dissenter ☛ Unauthorized Disclosure: Andy Thayer

  • R Scott Jones ☛ A visit to Cabinetlandia

    And I only learned about it when I started to type this post, five years after my visit

    After that visit, I did a quick google search hoping to find out a bit more, preferably from the official source: Cabinet Magazine. Instead, my results were littered with various travel blogs and such, who had apparently out-SEO’d the magazine company on its own project. And not too surprisingly, the results I clicked on just seemed to regurgitate the same info from Atlas Obscura. Perhaps that’s about all there was to the story? I didn’t investigate further.

    When I started writing this post, I did another quick google search to help remind me of some of the details. And this time, I found the project page on Cabinet. And boy oh boy, I fell down the Cabinetlandia rabbit hole.

    Man, what a fun project! I love how this all came together and I will definitely be back to investigate a bit further (I’ll make sure to provide an update here, preferably within five years this time).

• Environment

  • Wired ☛ Elon Musk Is No Climate Hero

    The siren song of the oil and gas industry! Literally: Drill, baby, drill! And Musk, he of the—I’m going to say it again—electric cars and “saving the world” schtick, didn’t pipe up until a full two minutes later, when he suggested that Trump set up a “government efficiency commission” to curb government spending. Later, he and Trump did have a brief exchange on the science of climate change. But Musk took pains to emphasize that the oil and gas industry isn’t the problem. “I’m pro-environment, but … I don’t think we should vilify the oil and gas industry, because they’re keeping civilization going right now,” he said.

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ Germany: Climate activists block four airports

    In Berlin and Stuttgart, police said that activists were arrested without disrupting traffic.

  • The Barents Observer ☛ Satellite images reveal worrying scale of Svalbard glaciers loss

    During this summer, the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard has been melting five times faster than normal. "Svalbard is a hotspot for Arctic warming", experts warn.

  • Energy/Transportation

    • India Times ☛ Ola’s plans around EVs, quick commerce, more out on Independence Day

      Listed electric scooter maker Ola Electric launched its first range of electric motorcycles called the Roadster at the group’s annual event ‘Sankalp’ while Ola Cabs rebranded itself to Ola Consumer and launched fully automated dark stores for sellers on the government-backed ONDC platform. Their sister firm, Krutrim AI said it would launch an in-house designed AI chip called Bodhi 1 by 2026, and a superior AI chip called Bodhi 2 by 2028.

  • Overpopulation

    • teleSUR ☛ Zambia: Nearly Half of the Population Lives in Extreme Drought-Affected Areas

      Almost half of the population of Zambia, 9.8 million people, has been affected by the devastating drought caused by the El Niño weather phenomenon, which has forced many families to eat only once a day and travel long distances to get water, Alerted this Thursday the organization CARE.

• Finance

  • Job Cut: This company will lay off more than 1,000 people – detailed here

    Mastercard Layoffs: Mastercard, a company that provides facilities related to debit and credit card transactions, is going to have layoffs. The company is preparing to lay off about 3 percent of its employees globally. This layoff is part of the company’s new restructuring process, which aims to streamline the company’s business and eliminate non-essential positions.

  • India Times ☛ RIP dream job: How the allure of a dream job is fading for Gen Z

    Gen Z professionals are moving away from the traditional notion of a 'dream job,' impacted by tech industry layoffs and a changing work culture. Young workers now prioritize roles that offer personal growth, work-life balance, and alignment with their values. Prestigious company names are less important compared to meaningful work and supportive environments. Companies have begun adjusting their recruitment strategies to appeal to these new preferences, emphasizing social impact and flexibility.

• AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

  • Hamilton Nolan ☛ Public Ownership of Public Goods

    Think bigger about what should be ours. We all pay taxes to create a democratically run government that provides vital goods and services in the name of the public good. That’s the goal. The hungry mouths of capitalism will never stop trying to nibble their way in to all of these goods and services. Public roads become toll roads. Public beaches become members-only. Cash-strapped state and local governments privatize public services in exchange for a quick cash infusion, due to either desperation or destructive free market ideology or plain old corruption. The federal government, at the center of everything, wielding a printing press for money, has the power to not only stop the constant assault of privatization, but to begin pushing the boundaries of public ownership outwards, further into the economy, covering more things for more people. Having this as a baseline goal will help us craft policies that don’t just stave off capitalism’s relentless tendency towards inequality momentarily, but stop it permanently. Public goods for the public. Keep it in mind.

  • The Washington Post ☛ X closes operations in Brazil, blames judge’s ‘censorship’ orders

    Social media platform X is shuttering its operations in Brazil “immediately” after the country’s top judge allegedly threatened to arrest the company’s legal representative in secret for not complying with orders to shut down certain accounts, the company posted Saturday.

  • India Times ☛ Not Microsoft, Google or ChatGPT-maker OpenAI: Eric Schmidt sees this company as ‘big AI winner’

    Schmidt said that big technology companies are planning for large investments into Nvidia-based AI data centres, which may cost as much as $300 billion to build.

  • Silicon Angle ☛ Texas Instruments wins $4.6B in CHIPS Act financing for three new fabs

    The new funds will enable the company to build three new semiconductor plants, or fabs, in Texas and Utah. Construction on the facilities has already begun. Chip production is expected to start as soon as next year.

  • New York Times ☛ Deploying on U.S. Soil: How Trump Would Use Soldiers Against Riots, Crime and Migrants

    While governors have latitude to use their states’ National Guards to respond to civil disorder or major disasters, a post-Civil War law called the Posse Comitatus Act generally makes it a crime to use regular federal troops for domestic policing purposes.

  • India Times ☛ After laying off 70% employees, AI startup CEO claims not able to go to the US to raise funding as employee stole passport with US visa

    A former employee, speaking anonymously, stated that the company has withheld salaries for over 50 employees for more than a year and has not responded to legal notices. The founder has reportedly been unresponsive and claimed he owes no explanations. Addressing allegations of deliberately delaying salaries, Jha denied the claims, suggesting they are attempts to defame the company. He mentioned plans to fill key positions as the company negotiates deals with several banks and NBFCs.

  • Variety ☛ The Onion Sold to Global Tetrahedron, Owned by Twilio's Jeff Lawson

    Financial terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. A G/O Media rep declined to identify the new owners of The Onion.

  • India Times ☛ EU presses Meta on plans after disinformation tracker axed

    Unavailable since August 14, CrowdTangle is to be replaced with Meta's Content Library -- a technology researchers say offers nowhere near the same functionality.

  • India Times ☛ Chipmaker Texas Instruments to receive up to $1.6 billion in funding from US

    The chipmaker also expects to receive about $6 billion to $8 billion in investment tax credit from the U.S. Treasury Department, and $10 million in funding for workforce development.

  • YLE ☛ Finnish government presses ahead with controversial three-month rule, despite near total opposition during consultation

    The public consultation period for the government’s proposed three-month unemployment rule ended on Friday, with around 120 responses submitted by the afternoon. With two exceptions, every submitted opinion rejected the government's proposal of a deadline of three or six months for foreign workers.

  • Scheerpost ☛ In These Five Social Media Speech Cases, Supreme Court Set Foundational Rules for the Future

    The U.S. Supreme Court addressed government’s various roles with respect to speech on social media in five cases reviewed in its recently completed term. The through-line of these cases is a critically important principle that sets limits on government’s ability to control the online speech of people who use social media, as well as the social media sites themselves: [Internet] users’ First Amendment rights to speak on social media—whether by posting or commenting—may be infringed by the government if it interferes with content moderation, but will not be infringed by the independent decisions of the platforms themselves.

  • Fortune ☛ Elon Musk may have to sell billions in Tesla stock to rescue X

    Musk’s repeated outbursts against advertisers have dried up the main source of revenue for the loss-making company formerly known as Twitter. A recent decision to sue them for heeding his own advice to not buy ads on the platform hasn’t helped. At some point, he will have to provide a fresh infusion of cash to salvage his $44 billion takeover. And that might mean Musk sells Tesla stock to raise the money—hurting anyone who holds the carmaker’s shares.

  • Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda

    • Maine Morning Star ☛ AI will play a role in election misinformation. Experts are trying to fight back

      The false video was part of a growing wave of election-related content created by artificial intelligence. At least some of that content, experts say, is false, misleading or simply designed to provoke viewers.

      AI-created likenesses, often called “deepfakes,” have increasingly become a point of concern for those battling misinformation during election seasons. Creating deepfakes used to take a team of skilled technologists with time and money, but recent advances and accessibility in AI technology have meant that nearly anyone can create convincing fake content.

    • The Nation ☛ Donald Trump Is Already Planting the Seeds of the Next Insurrection

      Last Sunday, Trump issued a typically dishonest Truth Social post claiming that a photo showing Kamala Harris being greeted by a large crowd in the Detroit airport was a fake image generated by artificial intelligence (AI): [...]

    • Alabama Reflector ☛ AI will play a role in election misinformation. Experts are trying to fight back

      “Now we can supercharge the speed and the frequency and the persuasiveness of existing misinformation and disinformation narratives,” Tim Harper, senior policy analyst for democracy and elections at the Center for Democracy and Technology, said.

• Censorship/Free Speech

  • The Hindu ☛ Udaipur school stabbing: Mobile [Internet] suspended for 24 hours; schools to remain shut until further orders

    Mobile [Internet] was suspended for 24 hours in several areas of Udaipur and all schools were ordered to remain closed after a Class X student stabbed another boy at a government school, triggering communal violence in the city.

• Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press

  • Kansas Reflector ☛ Marion prosecutor, wary of liability, wrote self-serving memos after raid on Kansas newspaper

    Bennett and Wilkerson attempted to redirect criticism from Ensey and others who were involved in the raid by placing much of the blame on Cody. But recent court filings highlight Ensey’s involvement in the investigation before the raid, his handling of the search warrants, his post-raid conversations with Bennett, and the self-serving claims he made in emails he sent to himself.

  • Kansas Reflector ☛ I'm celebrating three years at Kansas Reflector. Here's a guide to every one of my columns.

    On a whim and for reference, I documented my Reflector work in a massive spreadsheet. It lists a mountain of material, an orgy of opinions, some of which still make solid sense. Others seemed like a good idea at the time. Since August 2021, I’ve covered the Kansas Legislature (obviously), along with ghost towns (interesting) and the mossy leaf-tailed gecko (huh?).

    I started the project because I was curious to know how much I had focused on different subjects and when. Sure I had a general idea, but specifics eluded me. You can’t deny that 355 columns are a lot of opinions to keep straight.

  • BBC ☛ Why do billionaires want to own the news?

    So if making money is not the object, what is motivating the moguls?

    "The wealthy have always been attracted to news media, chiefly because influential media buys access and influence for owners," says Mr McCabe.

    While that may be the case for some, there are other impulses driving the new breed of billionaire media barons, according to Dan Kennedy, associate professor of journalism at Northeastern University in Boston and author of The Return of the Moguls: How Jeff Bezos and John Henry Are Remaking Newspapers for the Twenty-First Century.

  • RFERL ☛ The Azadi Briefing: Press Freedom Sharply Declining Under The Taliban

    Its government issued "new guidelines" to reign in the once vibrant Afghan press, which was already reeling from pressure to implement 14 detailed instructions the group had issued during the previous two years.

    The report said that during the past year of Taliban rule, it decreed what kind of language and terminologies the Afghan print and electronic media should use.

• Civil Rights/Policing

  • Jacobin Magazine ☛ CEOs Inflated Their Paychecks — and Our Prices

    Mainstream pundits continue to offer muddled explanations for the inflation crisis. The Kamala Harris campaign should focus voters’ anger on a cause that often flies under the radar: greedy CEOs and their record profits.

  • Privacy International ☛ Humans in the AI loop: the data labelers behind some of the most powerful LLMs' training datasets

    Who are the workers behind the training datasets powering the biggest LLMs on the market? In this explainer, we delve into data labeling as part of the AI supply chain, the labourers behind this data labeling, and how this exploitative labour ecosystem functions, aided by algorithms and larger systemic governance issues that exploit microworkers in the gig economy.

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ Germany: Climate activists block four airports

    In Berlin and Stuttgart, police said that activists were arrested without disrupting traffic.

  • The Hill ☛ Kamala Harris's campaign accepts invitation to Teamsters roundtable

    The International Brotherhood of Teamsters said the Harris campaign has accepted an invitation to join a roundtable with members of one of the country’s largest unions.

Monopolies/Monopsonies

• The Register UK ☛ Epic Games brings Fortnite back to iOS in Europe

  Thanks to Europe's Digital Markets Act, Apple is obligated to provide access to third-party app stores on its mobile devices. Where once there was one Apple way – apologies to Microsoft's solipsistic street address – there are now at least five alternative iOS app stores in the EU.

  These include: AltStore PAL, Aptoide, Mobivention, and SetApp Mobile.

  The latest addition, the Epic Games Store, now offers iOS-using Euro-folk access to entertainment titles like Fortnite, Rocket League Sideswipe and Fall Guys. Epic is also making its iOS titles available in AltStore PAL and, soon, through Aptoide's iOS store.

• The Washington Post ☛ Fortnite’s mobile return shows the start of new app store revolution

  If you want to play Fortnite games on an iPhone … well, you need to live in the European Union. There, starting Friday, you can download Fortnite from several non-Apple mini app stores that exist under a new European law trying to spark more alternatives to Big Tech.

• New York Times ☛ Apple Changes App Store Rules

  In Europe, where a new law permits third-party app stores and app promotions, Apple has approved a competing app store from Epic Games, the maker of Fortnite, and permitted the streaming app Spotify to list its summer pricing discount inside its music streaming app, Epic and Spotify said on Wednesday.

• Silicon Angle ☛ Regulators tighten their fingers around Big Tech's neck, but they're not slowing down AI

  Regulators are circling ever closer to big tech companies — the latest being Google, which the Federal Trade Commission more than hinted this week should be broken up.

  It’s not at all certain that will happen, since it’s up to the judge in the Google v. Epic Games case, but it’s clear that Big Tech is headed for a reckoning at some point.

• [Repeat] Silicon Angle ☛ EU issues request for information to Meta in connection with DSA probe

  The European Commission, the EU’s executive branch, disclosed the request today. The move relates to a probe that officials launched earlier this year into Meta’s compliance with the EU’s Digital Services Act regulation. The DSA includes, among other things, transparency rules that require social media companies to make data about their platforms easily accessible to researchers.

• Techdirt ☛ And Just Like That, PC Emulator Apps Are Allowed On Apple’s App Store Afterall

  It was just a few weeks ago that we were discussing how an update Apple made to its rules for its App Store allowed for some retro-console game emulator apps, but not retro-PC game emulator apps for some reason. When Apple made the policy change, developer Chaoji Li submitted his app, iDOS, for consideration, only to have it rejected. Adding to the frustration were reps for the App Store suggesting that Li “make changes” to the app and resubmit it, but could not articulate what those changes should be. Elsewhere, Apple pointed that the policy change specifically allowed for “console” emulators and not PC emulators, though why that particular distinction made it into the policy at all was never explained.

• Pratik ☛ Separating Emotion From Your Consumerism | Nerve Endings Firing Away

  It’s no longer the upstart and the underdog; instead, it is a multi-trillion-dollar corporation. Of course, it is beholden to its shareholders and wants to make as much profit as possible. Without getting into the details of why even the Patreon news seems like a tempest in a teacup, I want to simply urge everyone to recalibrate their expectations from Apple. Everyone is nostalgic about the golden days when they bought their first Macintosh and fought against the big bad IBM and then Microsoft. But those days are gone. Apple is now just one of the big corporations. And it’s ok. Nothing lasts forever. But I at least consider this to be a better outcome than Apple going bankrupt and not existing at all.

• Copyrights

  • Torrent Freak ☛ NVIDIA: Copyrighted Books Are Just Statistical Correlations to Our AI Models

    NVIDIA sits front and center of the AI boom. The company provides the much-needed chips and offers its own AI models. NVIDIA admittedly used pirated books to train these models, which triggered a copyright infringement lawsuit. This week, the company informed the court that these claims fall flat, arguing that copyrighted books are nothing more than statistical correlations to its AI models.