Chris Ellis @intrbiz@bergamot.social

Went to see Aussie Floyd on Monday at Symphony Hall in Birmingham. Excellent gig, great music and amazing light show and animation. Would really recommend for any Pink Floyd fan out there.

@bigcalm the middle?

@SimonB what needs?

@breinbaas yeh. I think 'to connect to' the words that do the heavy lifting.

I've always considered applications using the 'postgres' default database not to be best practice, especially when they are authing as the 'postgres' user.

Do other #postgresql people agree with that?

@deavid

Yes, plus also sentiments echoed in "Humans".

@deavid

Interesting point. Which could well hinge on the definition of 'use'.

This seems to usually be tested in court by how similar the outputs are to other existing works, often siding with the rights holders of the existing works.

I don't think that people will accept the view that a machine could be as 'lossy' as a human.

@deavid

Should the developer of the algorithm be considered to have a right to the resultant work?

Should the rights holders of the training data set be considered to have a right to the resultant work?

Or should the 'artist' who combined them and generated the work?

I don't think there is an easy answer here.

But I do think it's too simplistic to say that the licences of the works used to train the AI model can be ignored, which seems to be Github's current stance.

@deavid could the model the AI generated from the training data not be considered a derived work? And thus the output of the AI a derived work?

I also don't see an explicit grant in the GPL v2 or v3 for ' learning', what clause gives you this impression?

I genuinely think there will be some interesting test cases over AI and copyright. It won't be a short or pretty road.

On-site with a client doing PostgreSQL stuff for the first time in far too long. It felt good and looking forward to helping them.

@davidallengreen it's always amused me that the UK is the only Country Code Top Level Domain (CCTLD) which does not (actively) use it's ISO 2 letter country code.