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Alien Fossils: Bacteria Hitchhiking Rides to Earth on Meteorites

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  2. Previous comments removed from this post were off topic, concerning blogs and copyrights.

    FOR TRANSPARENCY, HERE IS SOME DETAIL ON WHAT WAS REMOVED
    Over 5 years ago, before April 22, 2020, some comments pointed out that I was using too many quotes in my articles and this could be seen as infringement. This article was one example. This article above is now completely rewritten. You can’t copyright ideas or facts so I believe this site has made a good recovery from the previous methodology, wherein I just posted whatever quote I found interesting and linked to the original. Having something you publish on line for public consumption be unable to be shared was a difficult concept for me to accept, because once you put something out for free, it’s out! You don’t get to stop people from sharing news paper articles or even books in the physical world, so the idea of stopping me from quoting you seemed absurd. Back then, I had a lot of traffic and always linked back to the original source, so anything I quoted sent more traffic to the original sites. I saw myself as benefiting authors and sometimes artists by helping to promote them. Remember, I started doing this before there was a commercial Internet, when EVERYTHING on the Internet, all content, was free and educational.

    Now here we are in 2024 when Large Language Models (LLMs) have injested most everything ever published online. ChatGPT and other AI tools can rewrite any article many different ways quickly such that the output no longer violates copyright laws. This is what I’ve been doing for a few years now with this site now, working to ensure that the entire News i8 site is original text. This includes the images. My goal is to have all new, all fresh, A.I. works of art, except in a few rare cases where the news story would make no sense unless you saw the image. In that case, I think I am covered under the Fair Use provision of US copyright law because I sell no ads on this site and because the purpose is educational. Nevertheless, email me or leave a comment if you feel any image or text quoted is not covered by the Fair Use provision and I will quickly remove the images if you show that you are the artist or author who produced them. Despite the large number of visitors showing up on some posts, there is no market usurpation because my traffic in 2024 is almost entirely web crawling bots, such as those AI uses to produce its replies which are in the process of replacing web search engines.

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