They say the best defense is a good offense.

program I was never able to find an adequate OSS replacement for!

Well, aside from Windows. What are the odds MS every open-sources it? :P

Take all this with a grain of salt as I'm not super-informed and going off memory.

To my understanding the capital is relatively high-tech. The country's leadership has an interest in keeping up with technology so that it continues to pose a threat and thus stays alive. It would stand to reason that there are a lot of tech-y North Koreans there available for this kind of work.

You also may not have heard of the relatively large amount of cyberwarfare that North Korea is conducting, which also implies quite a large amount of tech and tech employment.

Probably reduces to near zero outside the capital city, into our usual view of NK being 50 years behind the rest of the world.

The problem of course is that the pressures of capitalism reward the teacher for getting more done in less time, and thus they won't use AI an assistant but rather take everything verbatim.

for enterprising hackers. Though I suppose there's probably not a large overlap in the demographics.

I'm not sure selling the same game on later gen consoles is a real thing.

When games are re-released in later generations they are typically either remasters or remakes. Which would entail a new ROM.

I.e. selling you a given ROM doesn't stop them from making money on the future versions of the same game.

Under such a system detecting and labelling detected content as AI-generated needs to have repercussions for not having listed the content as AI-generated.

Otherwise there is no incentive to correctly label the content to begin with. You just try and fly under the radar undetected, see what gets detected. Oh well, cost of doing business.

This is the future that the MS/Amazon/Google cloud oligopoly will build if left to their own devices.

I don't disagree with most of what you say here. What I find interesting is that github took it down, where they are known to be pretty lenient with what they keep up, or revert takedowns pretty liberally.

Mid-range, maybe.

Isn't this how the entire scientific paper/academic/post-doc research industry works? The money has to come from somewhere. Corporations fund academics, research, and science. It's corporations all the way down.

Not saying I like it, far from it.

Isn't part of all these Terms of Service that they can change them at any time? Absurd, of course. Just never give anyone any real data when you can help it.

> private by law ... health, banking, etc.

That doesn't seem to protect you from db hacks/leaks as we've seen. Haven't heard of any in the banking sector, but it's already started happening in the health sector.

Why does AT&T have and need customer SSNs in the first place?

Be the ignore you want to see in the world.