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Hello fellow WoT fans! The new season is nearly here, so I'm going to repost this request.

Please use #wot book spoilers if your (original) post includes anything from the books!

Many of us have not read the books, and just want to enjoy seeing plots play out on the show. If you include any generic wot tags, including ships and character names, then those will show up in the site-wide search for that tag. Show-only fans deserve access to the site-wide search without encountering spoilers.

If you use the #wot book spoilers tag then you can post all the book spoilers you want, because we can mute the tag! (Just using #wot spoilers or #spoilers isn't enough because they're often used for show posts too.)

Thanks everyone who did this for season 1, and thanks in advance for helping all of us enjoy the new season together <3

*Mat and Rand sitting in jail together*

Rand: So... Who should we call?

Mat: I'd call Nynaeve but I feel safer in jail

Moiraine when Mat and Perrin make fun of Rand’s fancy clothes:

Moiraine when she finds out Rand slept with one of the Forsaken:

Alright US mutuals, if you are interested in, morbidly fascinated by, or anxiously doomscrolling through AI news, including Stable Diffusion, Llama, ChatGPT or Dalle, you need to be aware of this.

The US Copyright Office has submitted a request for comment from the general public. Guidelines can be found on their site, but the gist of it is that they are taking citizen statements on what your views on AI are, and how the Copyright Office should address the admittedly thorny issues in rulings.

Be polite, be succinct, and be honest. They have a list of questions or suggestions, but in truth are looking to get as much data from the general public as possible. If you have links to papers or studies examining the economic impacts of AI, they want them. If you have anecdotal stories of losing commissions, they want them. If you have legal opinions, experience using these tools, or even a layman's perspective of how much human input is required for a piece of work to gain copyright, they want it.

The deadline is Oct 18th and can be submitted via the link in the article. While the regulatory apparatus of the US is largely under sway by corporate interests, this is still the actual, official time for you to directly tell the government what you think and what they should do. Comments can be submitted by individuals or on behalf of organizations. So if you are a small business, say a print shop, you can comment on behalf of the print shop as well.

Ars Technica

Thorny AI copyright questions have Copyright Office seeking public input

Should AI-created works be copyrighted? US regulators want to know what you think.