you can't really understand how so many people got so much money. Or back in the times when I would go on vacations to nice places and I would think to myself, you know, I'm the Dilbert guy. I got super lucky, made more money than most people. So I get to go to this resort, some five-star resort somewhere, but then it would be full. And I would think to myself, how could there be so many people who are so lucky? Did they inherit it? Are they criminals? And I don't know what the percentage is, but I just think that there's some shocking number of people who are rich who literally stole it from the government because the government has so much money that you can steal a lot for yourself and nobody notices. So I mean, it's just speculation, but I've got a feeling that not everybody's earning their money the hard way like I did.

Well, there's a big trial going on with Meta's AI. There's some authors, mostly authors, who are trying to say that the AI, in this case Meta, used their copyrighted work and they believe that their copyright should protect them from having the AI suck it up and be able to do stuff with it. Now the good news is I was just reading a little bit about the questions that were being asked by the judge, and you know, it's hard to know for sure from a distance, but the judge seems to be really, really sharp because I looked at the questions and how he framed stuff and I thought, "Wow, you really get this topic." So Ars Technica is writing about this, but the judge downplayed Meta's what he called messed up torrenting. And whatever he rules, this could be an important ruling in the world of AI, because if the judge decides that AI can't do this sort of thing because it's a copyright violation, then the United States will fall behind in AI because we won't be able to train it the way China would, which is stealing anything it can steal and don't care about copyrights. So it's really a big deal. On the other hand, it's really bad for authors. So the judge is going to end up making a decision even though it's really just a legal decision. It's going to be a decision about which industry dies.

So if the judge says you can't train your model on copyrighted material, well then AI as an industry will just die or it'll get sued out of existence. But if he says, "Well, you know, it's too important or it looks like it's fair use," then I would argue that the book authoring business would be completely dead in just a few years. So you're going to have to decide which one is going to die, the literary world or the AI world. Unfortunately, as someone w