Not just foreign students.. out of state students too.

Clearly you haven't been paying attention.

Not only are people being disappeared to unknown locations, they are also being prevented access to lawyers.

One guy that had a green card (was in the US legally, a legal resident) got picked up by ICE for a trumped up charge for a minor drug offense he had as a kid and that was resolved. Then put into a facility that was absolutely a violation of human rights (unhygienic, repressive, terrible food, etc..). Then when he eventually was able to get help from a lawyer they said "yeah, you can fight it, but in the meantime you're going to be locked up in that place" (a place that is more Guantanamo than US prison).

So he chose to get deported to a country he hadn't seen since he was 8. And where he barely speaks the language.

So yeah, you're not paying attention to the human rights abuses of the US.

But that's nothing new: internment camps for the Japanese, residential schools for native Americans, Jim Crow, lynchings, mass shootings, etc.. etc..
Americans never see the abuses that happen right under their nose.

Not even when masked people are violating the 4th Ammendment and unreasonably searching and seizing people on the streets because of their race.

American Exceptionalism = American Blindness.. Americans are exceptionally blind

Beyond that the US has a tendency to make some industries just scam their customers and get away with it. Some examples:

- Lawyers: ridiculous hourly fees
- Insurance: costs a lot, then doesn't pay up
- Hospitals: openly scam patients
- Pharma
- Universities: ridiculous tuition rates

The undergrad tuition that Universities want to charge cannot be justified. You're paying for everything except your own education. There's no way they need that much money to teach you in a class with 100 people. You could hire a tutor with a PhD and get one on one education for cheaper.

It's not stealing to read.
Memorize probably not either.

But to reproduce on demand, that could be copyright infringement.

Imagine if you asked the AI to generate a song like "Born in the USA" by Bruce Springsteen. And it did so verbatim or very very close to the original. Even with a video.

If it's too close to the original it's no longer fair use.

Producing plagiarism is a risk with AI tools.

For example, you could ask it to generate some code, and it could generate some copyrighted Windows source code that leaked on the internet at some point. Including some patented algorithm.

If you incorporated that into your code you could be found liable of copyright infringement. Not sure AI companies like OpenAI would indemnify you for that.

So yeah, this is an unsolved problem.

Note that this is a contradiction to an earlier ruling in the US that said that the output of an LLM is "highly transformative".

AI models need to find a way to know if they are plagiarizing or not and give proper attribution or suppress copyright infringement.
The issue here is that songs are short, and therefore easy to memorize.

If ffmpeg allows known and published vulnerabilities to languish, the risk here is that organizations that use their code will simply stop using it and will look for other solutions.

Orgs basically have a choice:

1. Suck it up and deal with the whims of people you are not paying a penny to
2. Cough up some cash and contribute
3. Develop their own completely in house/pay for a 3rd party one

2 is almost always way cheaper than 3. Option 4 of "whine incessantly that people you aren't paying aren't working for you fast enough" really needs to stop. I suspect a lot of companies would rather do 3 than 2, because they are not rational.

Or to bolster it, in 2024, the market share of Chinese made cars in BEV sales in the E.U. was 20%, and that of Chinese automakers 8%, with a total of 438,034 BEVs imported from China. Source

No, they are dumb. Because it is obvious that this approach cannot work.

While that's almost certainly true for the existing stock of vehicles, they have also overbuilt production capacity. So they could easily retool to deliver for another market while selling the existing inventory slowly to domestic buyers.

Irony or exceptionally naive statement? Difficult to say...

Simple: If it is slop and irrelevant, it still takes almost as much time to work on as a bug with high relevance. Google is overloading the projects engineering capabilities.

Like all other enterprises, Google is happy to take from the commons, but will not contribute unless publicly called out on it. As is happening here.

The problem is to discover whether it is AI slop or a real issue, you have to do 90% of the work anyways. Google is essentially doing a DoS attack on FFmpeg by delivering unvetted and often low-quality reports. Yes, that means the Google people behind this are _really_ dumb.

Very simple, although it is not a surprise YOU do, again, not get it: It requires most of the work, which is analysis, to find it is slop and slap that WONTFIX on it.

Yes, but half the people have below-average intelligence.

We won't have a stable society if they're constantly scammed.

And I know some High-IQ people with no street smarts who got scammed by "Raj from Microsoft Support".

Really some dude from a trailer park might have a better BS detector, having lived a less coddled existence.