There doesn't seem to be much to this story. As far as I can tell, they haven't done any scientific or even casual tests to clone open source or closed source. It's vapor ware.

Then why is the Kim family still in power in North Korea?

The types of neural networks used in these classifiers are not LLMs. The expense and difficulty of collecting an image set is going to far outweigh the compute time used to train them.

We are questioning whether the AI is creating something new, or whether it's just copying the original.

It's a question because the AI was trained on the original. Clean Room Design is a well-known engineering technique. It's not a problem when cloning closed source if the AI wasn't trained on that closed source code.

It's relatively easy to setup VPN over SSH, that might work if you need it at some time in the future.

OK, so your viewpoint is a little more clear now. You don't have a problem creating and killing animal life.

What about stem cell embryo research? Or sperm research? Does that bother you?

That's what you do every time you eat. Are you monstrous?

Only Jainism opposes it.

That just moves the question - you're in what is (at least through TNG-era eyes) a post-scarcity society. Why are you signing up for the military, to go get sent off random places and get eaten by negative space wedgies, when you could just replicate another bag of Cheetos?

Obviously - look at the laws in the 80s and 90s to prevent teenagers from getting access to tobacco, alcohol, dirty magazines and movies... we all know that parents and grandparents of today's teens didn't do any of those things growing up, right?

I would be very surprised if someone had that argument when the car was invented. You're really stretching for this one.

Waymo might have done the right thing here. If the car had sped away and accidentally run over the person, that would be a very different story.

The guy in the car was annoyed for six minutes and then it was over. I have some sympathy but not really.

From the article:

There is no world where linear programmed Cable TV can compete with a la carte.

Streaming is just better.

Knowing the exact location of a carrier makes it easier to target. Iran shot missiles at an aircraft carrier, but they missed it because they didn't know where the carrier was (or because the missiles got jammed).

"Don't be Detected" is the second layer of the survivability onion.

I got skills you don't know about, man. I could fix it.