I earnestly do not understand why anyone would subject themselves to this sort of abuse.

"Know it? We WROTE it!"

Also, if we're pretty sure the billionaires are going to leave when five percent of their wealth is taken, maybe the government should take a higher percentage to make up for it, like fifty percent.

I'm making merely an economic argument here, of course. If I were making a moral argument, I'd advocate for 115 percent.

It sounds like you said the billionaires left? Taking their corrupting influence with them?

Sounds like a good deal to me.

Wow, looking over these responses, and I had no idea how many billionaires post on Slashdot!

Oh, no, if this goes through, that sociopath providing increasingly fewer increasingly low-paying jobs that require a 200-acre migrant-worker camp to maintain staffing for might not be agree to knock down a children's hospital to install a new leaky poison factory in my neighborhood!

Well, sure it's banal to make that comment NOW. I've already done it!

Anyway, it may be banal, but it's important to keep pointing it out. Because they keep fucking reporting about "up to" this and "up to" that. It's like how nobody ever gets the maximum sentence for a crime, but that's what people think from the headlines.

Say what you want about the Trump Trillion-Dollar Coin, but it's been really convenient for all these AI companies to pass back and forth and pretend it's in all their bank accounts at once.

What did they think would happen?

...where's my Metaverse avatar's LEGS?

At this point in human history, if you need some plastic, don't drill an oil well: just ask your area sewage treatment plant. I heard they're even helpfully piping it back in via the residential water pipes in some jurisdictions.

The article is frustratingly hard to parse for me, but it does say that Malus is meant as satirical. In that light, I can see why they would make a claim meant to be outrageous ("Claude, despite having read the original source code, can nonetheless reproduce it without violating the clean-room principle,") in the hopes that it will spark a re-evaluation of that claim when it is made sincerely, or at least seriously.

The problem with that interpretation is that they're making real money ripping off real software via this process. So... are they supposedly willing to go to jail for the bit?

"Malus [...] is modeled after the IBM case and uses one AI agent to write the specifications and a different agent to produce the code, creating that 'clean room' effect. [...] Blanchard also conceded that Claude, which like all LLMs, was trained on vast amounts of data scraped indiscriminately from the internet and was exposed to the original chardet in its training, but maintains his version is not derivative."

So, it's not a clean room at all: they're just calling it that.

Lol, the 621-mile and the 7-minute charging battery are two different batteries.

Ah, Facebook! Its first generation of employees were quislings for stalking. Its second generation of employees were quislings for advertising. At last, the third generation of employees has arrived: quislings against humanity itself. This will probably be the final generation. Well, at least the final one we humans will be around to see.