Not that SCOTUS (nor any high court in the EU or other countries) has concluded this determination, but so far the general claim is that AI-generated content (images, movies, writing), while it may (or rather, does) contain copyright violations for stealing from others, it itself can't be copyright protected because no human was involved in making the final product. It is automatically public domain.

So that leaves the question - at what point does a vibe-code project be considered public domain and thus not protected by a license?

Straczynski shared his experiences working with Koenig on his FB page. A good read.

First, many knowledgeable techies can't write for the general public. I'd say most can't. The general public doesn't need "intelligent technical articles" by the techies. It needs it explained in their terms.

Second, it is absolutely insulting to judge someone solely by their degree after 25 years of professional experience in the field of tech reporting for the general populace.

you're missing a point about the AI bots. There are thousands working in parallel scanning your stuff compared to, well, just one person (or even just one visit from google's spiders). The big sites are one thing, but the small sites can't take their internet traffic costs going from $800 to $3500, with all of that traffic being AI bots scraping your pages over and over, and of course none of those pages seeing the advertising that's supposed to pay for that traffic.

The AI bots are not playing 'nice'. They're costing websites a fortune to basically replace the front ends already there.

Some time in the middle of the year in the 90s, I looked back at his January predictions for that year, and tallied up which ones I thought had come to pass by that point (I came up with 6 so far, with 1 a total not happening, and the other 3 still had time). Bob responded privately thinking it was more like 7, but regardless, at the end of the year, he did his first recap of last year's predictions before moving on to the next's.

He made that a column and blog tradition for at least 15 years until his writing output reduced.

Except there is a public history of the "idea" of AI. Yeah, we know when we used terms like that for how our programs behave, we're just using metaphor.

But the general public, and the media, and politicians, don't know that. Instead, they have been fed more than 60 years of the idea that AI means 'sentience' or whatever other term you use for 'life'. We talk of programs like that, and they see Tron's programs and the "Master Control Program". They think of HAL. They think of NOMAD and the many other corrupt 'reasoning' and self-acting AIs from the first Star Trek series. They think of Joshua from WARGAMES.

They do not think it is a metaphor. They think when those who speak for technology companies (including their CEOs) use those terms, they mean what they say, literally. Because that is how AI has been presented in the media for the past 3 generations.

but in theory, the human can explain the code they wrote, even if it is 'wrong'. i find there are times the human who submitted the AI code didn't understand it, meaning we have code proposed that truly NOBODY understands. That should be considered unacceptable, because when the inevitable bug happens...

it also presumes YOUR device is the most important device around, as opposed to, say, air traffic and flight scheduling systems, train systems, electricity control systems, stoplight control systems (they adjust their 'rush hour' times each switch), cruise and shipping departure and arrival times.

All of those systems need independent testing time to confirm that they have the switch, they can exchange information with other computers and be accurate about the switch, and all handle the fact that there would be no 'extra hour' on Nov 1st that would have already been accounted for in their schedules for that day...and note they'd be dealing with computers in other countries that would likely be even slower in getting the upgrades needed to test on their end.

But that's not what Trump is asking for. He is asking for "effective immediately", just like the British Columbia bill was.

Yeah, you're suggesting Congress could set it for next year (giving next year's Congress a chance to revoke it), but that's not what is being proposed by the Administration nor the bill that already passed the House but the Senate seems to be never picking up.

that is a very naive way of looking at how computers work, especially computers that have to share future scheduling information with other computers. NO computer has what you are talking about that would just magically solve everything - especially in THIS case where the DST would be 365. Yeah, you could tell your computer to 'lie' about its location and say it was in, say, Brazil rather than Chicago in order to stick to whatever TZ you want your device to think it is in...but that is not something that scales up to all of the hundreds of data centers on the east coast with the millions of computers involved. They need to be absolutely and automatically accurate to where they are and 'when' they are, and no 'flip of a switch' will be adequate for that purpose.

Hell, about half the computers and software systems (like databases) in the public right now still aren't ready to hold Americas/Vancouver time on DST-365 (my own macbook didn't get the upgrade until about a month ago) when the flip happens. Not all the upgrades have rolled out or people are still intentionally using older systems because they "just work" (e.g., sticking with Java 8 and not having any time or inclination to try to get to Java 25 which changes so many network related libraries one might as well just rebuild the enter system from scratch).

A calendar-clock change like this needs at least a year of time to prepare it and get all the software systems tested and ready for the change when it happens. Yeah, it is easier to actually code the changes now for some systems than it was when we had the big change in 2005-2006 (in fact, because of dealing with that change), but that doesn't simplify the testing required for something on this scale.

https://threadreaderapp.com/th... yeah - the mass-buying started back in June, months before any announce or post was ever made on the matter. And yes, several are now selling for millions.

per a twitter post, someone did some searching and found that .si (Slovenia, yes where Melania's from) domains were being bought at an average of about 400 / month, usually with words in their own language.

But starting in *JUNE* (months before this announcement or any other like it), scalpers started buying up .si domains with common and corporate english words by the thousands...and now those domains are selling for millions.

Somebody knew it was coming, months ago. This was very well planned out to make some people very rich, possibly including Trump O itself, or those who buy his NFTs/Coins. That whole paying to get private access? This is what they're told to do in those back-door meetings.

https://threadreaderapp.com/th...

not for me. i still see AI in that first large text content: "America.gov

  uses AI
to get simple answers only
from

  official
government sources."

because i note - you aren't hearing this from Bezos, Ellison, nor Alphabet.