knowing the small number of companies that have access to the computer power to actually do a training with that data

the 70,717 AI startups worldwide

https://edgedelta.com/company/blog/ai-startup-statistics

Not every company will be training a model as big as the big names, but combined that’s a hell of a lot.

Does it matter what the purpose was? It was still causing them issues hosting their site.

The wording on ofcom is “should not” not" must not". It’s not illegal, they just don’t want people to do it and want people to think that it is illegal.

So what’s Europe getting out of this? Or have they just rolled over and let the bully win?

They’d have to keep it for businesses. So I guess next headline: number of uk sole traders jumps by 1400%.

I can’t see why that would be the case. The UK users using the UK instance would still have had their ages checked. As far as I understand it doesn’t matter where the adult material on the site has come from. It’s not a law to try to protect against the creation of material by people who aren’t verified, but rather try to reduce the amount of under 18s accessing material.

They’ll get blocked in the UK. Which, to be honest for a non profit fediverse instance isn’t going to be a bad thing as they’ll loose traffic alongside any donations. Expect UK based instances to start doing something for their users. But there’s lots of other verification options they could use.

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/protecting-children/age-checks-for-online-safety--what-you-need-to-know-as-a-user

If this law says in place and is actually enforced all fediverse instances will need to start verifying age for UK users too.

It gets you to turn your head. It’s not just a selfi.

Op even put it as a quote so you didn’t even need go to the article. Its compared to sales last year (last may against this may)

Dementia must be really bad if he thinks he can

The line must be drawn here!

They are (which is the point) the countries are in orange USA (as an overall average) and el Salvador are the only countries that make it on to the list.

This hit the news a few years ago. Basically, if it says “blend of EU and non EU honey” it’s for Chinese sugar water in it.

Sorry I mispoke on sausages. The vast majority contain pork. Also, no, must sausages are at least 52% “meat” https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/how-much-pork-is-in-your-sausage-agh7z1h30Aj5

Strips are clearly bacon. The vast majority of sausages are pork.

Oh and there’s a full ham hanging up (with the star on it)

On a side note, I’m pretty sure the way that this site does the accept cookies thing is how whoever in the EU came up with the idea imagined it would be implemented.

Opera had it before they dropped presto back in like 2013.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power_by_country#/media/File:World_wind_generation_2021.png

But old though.

It’s not the best weather for solar here so I’m very surprised we rank to be honest. Especially given the amount we’ve been ploughing into wind.

By 2023, the UK had over 11 thousand wind turbines with a total installed capacity of 30 gigawatts (GW): 16 GW onshore and 15 GW offshore,[5] the sixth largest capacity of any country.[6]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power_in_the_United_Kingdom