Prompt and Circumstance - DTNS 4463
Daily Tech News Show
Tom Merritt
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
We analyze the US Copyright Office’s rationale for not copyrighting works created from the Midjourney text to image generator. Plus we examine Canada’s Bill C-18 that would enact legislation compelling big tech companies to pay news publishers for linking to their stories. And we discuss Towns, a protocol and a web-based chat app designed to facilitate self-owned, self-governed online communities from the person that brought us Meerkat.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
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| 0:00.0 | A tech demo shows off the usual tech things. |
| 0:04.0 | Then I'm going to jump to a link. |
| 0:05.0 | Using the usual tech devices. |
| 0:07.0 | We have a plane device called our mouse. |
| 0:09.0 | Doing the usual tech productivity tasks. |
| 0:11.0 | Now we're connected audio. |
| 0:13.0 | You can see my work. You can point at it. |
| 0:15.0 | And I can see your face and we can talk. |
| 0:17.0 | Except it's 1968 and it's going to set the computing agenda |
| 0:20.0 | for the next half century, then almost immediately be ignored. |
| 0:24.0 | The mother of all demos on no a little more. |
| 0:27.0 | Get it wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:30.0 | This 10th year of daily tech news show is made possible by you. |
| 0:34.0 | Give yourself a big ol' pat on the back. |
| 0:36.0 | Thanks to all of you, including Mark Gibson, |
| 0:38.0 | Reed Fishler, and Larry Bailey. |
| 0:41.0 | Coming up on DTN as the guy who made mere cat |
| 0:43.0 | wants to take down discord. |
| 0:45.0 | Google wants to stop Canadians from reading news. |
| 0:47.0 | Plus the US copyright office says you can't copyright AI generated works. |
| 0:52.0 | Folks, the AI copyright wars have begun. |
| 0:56.0 | This is the daily tech news for Thursday, February 23rd, |
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