Often times great ambition requires moral concessions that are untenable even in the face of the end result.
Politics is a helpful lens. Either you compromise and muddy the purity of the result, or you take the high risk path of being uncompromising and greatly reduce the odds of achieving any result at all.
When facing this, many individuals optimize for lower-risk self-fulfillment over great ambition.
John Medeski is a legendary jazz keyboardist who experimentally uses the tape speed to get extraordinary texture out of his OG mellotron.
He recently put out a great record called 'Mellotron Variations' with a few other artists that gives you a deep dive into its tonal qualities.
The modern digital mellotrons are so satisfying to play, especially with the instrument layering and mixing. Truly feels like like scoring an orchestra at your fingertips.
Certainly you can. You can audit Bill Header’s streaming history to see exactly what he watched and when.
But I think that’s immaterial as I think the answer is that it doesn’t matter if you train on copyrighted work. Or maybe better that you don’t need a special license.
If I steal books and train on them, then I think that’s copyright infringement not because of the training but because I made an infringing copy. However, if I have a license already to read those books (ie, I bought a copy at a book store) then it’s not infringement to train an AI, or loan it to a million people or whatever I like with it as I bought a copy.
Yes but you’re not allowed to copy and distribute so you’re never going to actually do that. Also you’ll pass away with the knowledge you gained unlike the AI you’re training it on which will contain remnants of the work in all copies of itself, however abstracted away you consider it.
primarily air command, leveraging the sensor suite to operate non air-to-air tasks. it's an advanced systems ship that can use information and agility to complete most missions that don't involve pushing peak gs, velocity and circle radius.
