They've also scraped HackerNews posts. Since I posted blog links to HackerNews, does that mean they stole all of my blog posts? That represents three years of work and the chapters of 3 books that I intend to publish. They just took it and will start delivering it to their users to help them write more interesting content? Not okay.
This still seems to be happening two years later. A person complained about seeing a book sold under their name for 550 USD. It contained gibberish and the sales were recorded as income to the IRS even though the owner of the account couldn't find out where the money went. Amazon wouldn't tell her who had opened a bank account in her name. I suppose they prefer to deal with such accounts behind the scenes.
It's not too confusing to me. It gets the IRS off the trail of the actual person getting the money - they don't care that the IRS still wants money - they are confident that it wont get traced. It's truely obfuscation.
Wire the funds offshore to a place more willing to look the other way for a small fee:do this a few times to other accounts in other countries, park the clean non-taxed cash offshore, get a cc or debit credit for the clean account...profit
Sure you spend sum cash on cleaning the funds, you're still not paying taxes on that cash win/win
For mass downloading, https://archive.org/details/gutenberg is probably better, but I like the presentation on the official Project Gutenberg website better.
You can use major plot details from other books, the issue is how many and how sequentially arranged they can be. This author is dealing with several people who sat down and sequntially copied 35-45 plot twists/details on a page by page basis.
If you take 45 sequential, critical, unique lines of code or equations from a patented, copyrighted project, you could be in a lot of trouble. I think it is okay to take less than 14 sequential, unique plot elements but I'm not sure about how this would apply to lines of code made up of proprietary equations.
Those sorts of attacks work on an author who has only been ripped off by one publisher, but when there are six or seven, the attacker ends up looking like the nut job. Just wait until next year. Somebody delivered this as a poison pill to the whole industry. When the same new story shows up in seven locations within two years, bad actors are easier to identify.
I've noticed that the AI generated texts in novels tend to lack narrative cohesion over more than a few paragraphs and that the people who use them often have a human write the beginning and the ending of the book and then the middle is just AI hash that looks perfectly okay if you only read a few pages, but if you actually read the whole book, you realize that the central portion is completely fragmented. If an AI read such a text and concluded that it was great based on stylistic elements and if an agent didn't actually read the book all of the way through, that tool could completely sink the publishing industry because the platforms woudl be saturated by books that are 90% unreadable by humans. You would end up engineering an illiterate population! Kids would pick up those books and not be able to follow the plot in the middle (because there isn't one) and then they would conclude that they don't like to read.
It implied that the temporal effect of the final deceleration was analogous to how when you throw a ball up in the air and catch it, it only momentarily feels heavier than before you threw it. The twin only momentarily looks younger because the clock has to speed back up during the final deceleration and a naive calculation neglects this step.
This isn't that bus that will explode if it gets slower than 60 mph.
According the the article, during the final deceleration, the space traveller will age 20 or so years. In other words, for the traveller, that deceleration phase is going to last 20 years.
Or they just burst into flames. It is like burning up on re-entry.
You are thinking of acceleration in the same way you were taught to think about velocity, but that doesn't work in this case.
The physics community is suffering from a skepticism deficit enforced by physics cops (referees) who promote groupthinkers. Minorities are naturally more skeptical due to their history of betrayal by the majority and they are needed to help re-ground a community that has lost its head in the clouds.
