Comment by sillysaurusx
7 months ago
The reason I made books3 was to help force a decision on this issue. I’m happy to see that it’s settled, and that it’s legal for robots to read books.
It’s also proof that an individual scientist can still change the world, in some small way. Believe in yourself and just focus on your work, even if the work is controversial.
(I’m late to the thread, so ~nobody will see this. But it’s the culmination of about five years of work for me, so I wanted to post a small celebratory comment anyway. Thank you to everyone who was supportive, and who kept an open mind. Lots of people chose to throw verbal harassment my way, even offline, but the HN community has always been nice.)
FWIW, I see your comment. Also late to the thread though. This ruling is being watched at my office. I want to be a bit anonymous, but we've been doing a much more analogue version of some of these things for 75 years. With academics being our primary market. We've only had two legal issues in that time. Both settled out of court. But we walk a fine line.
Thank you for your work!
I think you have indirectly done a disservice to the artistic community.