Kevin Perjurer (not their real name)

Oh man I always wondered

The author is basically rationalizing and portraying sympathetically the way cops side with wealth and capital over the actual law.

It’s techdirt what else do you expect?

We distinguish between “Functional” and “Content” output.

I think we really shouldn’t have ceded this in the first place. An AI model isn’t “output” it’s a derivative work full of samples. It should follow the same rules that musicians have to. Only problem is there’s been a concerted effort to defang IP for decades led by tech giants and heavily affecting the terminally online software folks who might be expected to care about GPL violations. In this respect the horses have already left and I’m not sure closing the barn door matters.

There’s also the issue of enforceability. I could write a license that says ‘if you want to use my library in your vibe coded slop you must first submerge your hand in boiling water for no less than ten seconds.’ I don’t think I’m going to be able to convince a judge that their failure to perform this entitles me to damages. Likewise I suspect that now that the practice is there a license like this isn’t going to do anything to giants. The GPL came before anything worth stealing was licensed under it and helped shape the norms.

A more straightforward approach I’ve seen is a less ambiguous statement I see in books nowadays: this may not be used to train AI. I’d like to see versions of conventional licenses with this specific carveout.

I’ll finally note that we have seen an attempt to do something like this before in the form of the AGPL which almost nobody ever uses. Contemplate why.

I’m waiting for someone to try this then they get black bagged and dragged to whatever event by someone who bet they would attend.

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Yeah that’s the angle Cyberlibertarianism covers it from.

Cyberlibertarianism covers it.

Aaron Silverbook, ex MIRI, still lists himself as the President on LinkedIn. The site now links to a defunct shopify page.

Yeah an adversary like Google isn’t something you can easily block without really annoying legitimate users unfortunately. Nothing is stopping them from turning every chrome instance into a botnet node except for the angry article that would run in Ars Technica.

Women unreliable? GTFO

It owns the libs though, that’s usually enough

So he’s said the first batch of brainless clones would have to be carried by women paid to do the job. In the future, though, one brainless clone could give birth to another.

The

fuck?

Just like the famously well-adjusted and happy Rei Ayanami.

Not if Dawkins converts Claudia to Atheism first!

math pets

I’d forgotten this

and I refuse to engage with whatever the fuck lies beneath that racist qualifier

Oops all scientific racism

I think that’s a romantasy thing, it’s a compliment

My dominant MtG colors are blue and black.

Basically admitting to being evil

undergrad relationships course

🤔

Toto is also the world’s second-largest producer of electrostatic chucks, a critical component that holds NAND computer flash storage chips in place during manufacturing.

huh