While I hope nVidia won't place restrictions on existing open source/open weight models, I am wary of the control they might exercise on hf...

Well, training Gen AI, including LLMs, *is* machine learning. I understand that you're annoyed that the "AI" label is put on everything and their mother, but it seems the current transformer-based deep "neural" networks are stuck with that label, so we might as well go along. A very small (parameter-wise) such model is still "AI" in that sense. So let's not get hung up too much on names.

Overall, I think it is a very positive trend for people to not simply use the big models for everything but to come up with smaller variants which, depending on the use case, work just as well, consume way fewer resources, and (and this might be the most important thing) are under YOUR control.

Obviously a small model (fewer parameters). Come on, it's not that hard to understand. They got Qwen down to 4b and it still works, so I am not surprised that it works for small application areas such as this.

They took a cloud-dependent model and shrank it to an Android-size phone in 2 hours?

Em... "brief storm"? If the "AI companies" profit both from the generation of slop, and from the defense against slop? I think they own both sides.

"stubborness" is Godot in a nutshell. They might prevail with this in the future at some point. I do hope they will. We do need more options. If they do, we'll see changes. Unless this happens - stay clear.

That was my point. We *did* try to contribute. We thought our contributions were reasonable. We were rebuffed. So, yeah, sure, two sides to a story.

You are quite correct in that copy and pasting LLM responses to humans is disrespectful.

In this particular instance though, the Godot maintainers have been disrespectful to humans attempting to contribute for several years.

In other words - yes, we should decry honest devs getting swamped with AI crap. No, the Godot devs had it coming and do not deserve our pity, despite being OSS.

Godot is ...not a good game engine. It is in a very tiny niche of devs who attempt to avoid costs at all ... costs and still get stuff done. Almost no games made with Godot have ever amounted to anything. I am sorry, but it is true. We seriously considered Godot after the Unity runtime debacle a few years back, but we were put off by the Godot attitude, which seems to be... for lack of a better expression... "fuck you". The quip about the "already tedious" work of reviewing pull requests fits perfectly. They are not interested in what other people want, or in problems in their own code. They do their thing.

Does anyone know if the prosecutor from that documentary have anything to say about that fallout later? I.e. that she won the case but the result was more piracy?

I find it hard to believe that the web is becoming "less verbose" with the use of AI content. In my experience, it is very hard to get the AI to provide to-the-point answers. It goes on an on.

Now as for cheery, this might in fact be the case - after all, the AI is trained on human output, which, on the web, is about 99% marketing material (kidding, but you get the idea) - probably leaving out the haters...

Also, it seems most commenters here fail to realize this is about content, not about the technical implementation of the web site.

Anyone know how this is playing out on Apple devices? Does Apple have its own AI too?

While I consider myself to be "left" I think that the idea that 90% of "the media" was bought by "the right" is outright paranoia.

Up to a couple of years ago the main complaint was that "the left" controlled the media - and now it's turned around completely?

I am based in Europe though, where "the left" still pretty much owns the field - to the great annoyance of our own "right" parties. So YMMV.

Unless I am mistaken, Linux, in Steam terms, includes, and in fact is mostly made up by their own Proton impl.

But, say: PornHub says 22% of their users is Linux? Weird. I'd say on Desktop, this would be important; but on mobile, I'd say the numbers are way too low. So... where did you get that number from?