Quartz sync: Nov 4, 2023, 12:23 PM

content/Essays/ai-training.md

@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+---
+title: Why Training Generative AI Constitutes Copyright Infringement
+tags:
+  - essay
+  - seedling
+  - ai
+date: 2023-11-04
+draft: true
+---
+Quick reiteration: **This site contains my own opinion in a personal capacity, and is not legal advice, nor is it representative of anyone else's opinion.**
+
+I've seen a few news articles and opinion pieces recently that support training generative AI and LLMs on the broader internet as well as more traditional copyrighted works, without respect to the copyright holders for all of the above.

quartz/plugins/transformers/remark42.ts

@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+// Remark42 comments for Quartz
+// v1.1
+
 import { QuartzTransformerPlugin } from "../types"
 
 // Configuration documented at https://remark42.com/docs/configuration/frontend/
@@ -21,8 +24,7 @@ export const Remark42: QuartzTransformerPlugin<Options> = (opts?: Options) => {
 
   // Put the config into window scope
   var configAsString: string = "var remark_config={"
-  for(const key in opts)
-  {
+  for (const key in opts) {
     let value = opts[key as keyof Options] // Fucked
     configAsString += key + ":" + "'" + value + "'," // Turbo fucked
   }
@@ -35,8 +37,7 @@ export const Remark42: QuartzTransformerPlugin<Options> = (opts?: Options) => {
 
   // Put the embeddable components into window scope
   function getComment(e: Array<String>) {
-    for (var o = 0; o < e.length; o++)
-    {
+    for (var o = 0; o < e.length; o++) {
       var src = opts?.host + '/web/' + e[o] + '.js'
       scripts.push({ src: src, loadTime: "afterDOMReady", contentType: "external", })
     }
@@ -50,7 +51,7 @@ export const Remark42: QuartzTransformerPlugin<Options> = (opts?: Options) => {
       if (this.remark42Instance) {
         this.remark42Instance.destroy()
       }
-
+      remark_config['url'] = window.location.origin + window.location.pathname
       this.remark42Instance = window.REMARK42.createInstance(remark_config)
     }
   }