* First UN human rights investigator allowed to visit since [Guantanamo prison] was set up says men subjected to "inhuman and degrading" treatment.*

Tasmania, under a right-wing government, is continuing to cut down the trees where the endangered swift parrot lives.

* First UN human rights investigator allowed to visit [Guantanamo prison] was set up says men subjected to "inhuman and degrading" treatment.*

*UN says Russian forces have tortured and executed civilians in Ukraine.*

The EU's proposed law to regulate AI and nonintelligent "AI" takes mostly the right approach: to regulate by laws the uses of these systems.

The attempt to control these uses by releasing trained neural networks under nonfree licenses is misguided: it is nondemocratic, unjust, and probably ineffective, just as it is for other software.

For the directive as described here, I am concerned that a fine of 6% of global gross revenue could be an acceptable business expense for very large companies. I think that individuals crucially responsible for flagrantly illegal decisions should be prosecuted and face possible prison sentences.

I am concerned that the proposal may enact a bad assumption about the breadth of copyright. When ChatGPT or something like it copies a small snippet of text that appeared in some unidentified work, or perhaps in many otherwise different unidentified works, that should not be copyright infringement on those works. it would not be copyright infringement if you did the same thing in your head. Therefore, the requirement to list the copyright of all the works used for training is excessive.

*If [the corrupter] wins, he’ll turn the justice department into a vendetta machine.*