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Comment Re:Why trust? (Score 1) 41

Sometimes countries send their people into other countries to do certain things, like spying on industrial competitors or assassinating people deemed unworthy of a trial. In such cases, the people who are sent necessarily use the IT systems of the host country to blend in and not cause suspicions.

Comment Re:So the Chinese government (Score 1) 74

Nonsense. Censorship is neither evil nor good. It's a tool. In the west, we call it "filtering". Meta does it. Google does it. Twitter does it. Your spam filter does it. Filtering can take the form of hiding things you don't want to see. It can take the form of deprioritizing it, so it's still there but you're not likely to see it. It can take the form of having special rules in place in an office to prohibit saying certain things that could cause offense. It can take the form of changing the TV channel when there's adult content because the kids are watching. It can also take the form of kicking people out of a room if they don't support the troops. It can take the form of cutting off democrats when they open their mouths. It can take the form of defunding NASA climate programs just to hide the public statistics on natural disasters. It can also take the form of fining people who say things in public that cause harm to the government's policy goals. I could go on. Censorship is merely a tool, it's neither good nor evil. The world is a complicated place, step away from the blue pill.

Comment GPL (Score 1) 47

The GPL requires software systems that 1) make use of GPL licensed code and 2) distribute such code as part of a larger commingled software project, to 3) publish their own full source code whenever a distributee asks for it.

AI training on GPL code == commingling through weights and model evaluation architecture

AI outputting code to a user == distributing code which is part of the AI project's internal architecture (weights + model architecture)

AI outputting actual GPL snippets == AI is making essential use of GPL code, in a legally provable way

AI source code == all source code, training scripts, data files, lists of unprocessed raw input files, that constitute the *preferred* way of recreating the AI system from scratch by the AI company.

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