The public aren't worthy of individual martyrdom.

Humanity are not, as a group, admirable. Humans sometimes are before the rest eat them.

Humanity is a hostile environment. Always has been.

Mastering what you own is educational fun so there's every reason to learn.

Thank you for this sensible comment.

Volume is not quality. Those who object can go elsewhere.

Only destructive attacks can coerce wise choices.

model weights already more or less "contain" several partial OS kernels,

No, they don't. They were trained on that data, but they are not that data. You can't extract it from weights, and I highly doubt you'd be able to reproduce it from weights, even on an exceedingly large model.

At best, it's a work inspired by the original, not even a derivative. There's no "substantial or material" replication.

Why is this modded insightful?

Is it "stolen work" to read a book and then recite it, or paraphrase it, or create a story with the same themes? No. Those are new forms of work. The actual work isn't being recreated. Is software not the same as free speech? Can I not use phrases from other speeches in my speeches, and still have them be original work?

Who owns the copyright on the Klingon translation of Mein Kampf? Does Hitler retain those copyrights? No.

This "AI is all theft" argument is as tired as the old Microsoft lie that compatibility with their shitware was the same as copyright infringement. It's a tired argument. Retire it.

Look, I get it - a lot of the anti-AI folks don't take the time to inform themselves of how AI works, and it's generally scary, because it's threatening your identity as a coder. It's unfortunate, and not that different than the stablemaster being threatened by the automobile. That's the way things work, and there's no putting this cat back in the bag. You've got to adapt or die, just like the COBOL and FORTRAN developers of yesteryear. Or you could become a Maytag repairman.

Are we really going to trust something security-oriented by a guy who conceived of systemd? Instead of creating something which improves security and isolation, he created something renowned for its architectural and management complexity, privilege boundaries (or frequent lackthereof), attack surface, and the frequent consequences of concentrating system management in a large privileged software stack.

I'm reminded of the SSH/Pulse Audio privilege escalation through systemd some years back... due to their obstinately poor security design.

Slopflooding is sabotage under guise of assistance.

Violence including war is an accepted therefore acceptable method of resolving various human problems, including social parasites like the people who sold adulterated infant formula with fatal results in China. Their public liquidation sent a healthy message some people are refuse to get when asserted by lesser means.

If some life is precious it follows other lives are the opposite.