It is the tragedy of the commons as you say. If I was Meta, for example, I would sue as heck adopt or contribute more heavily to the likes of php. But even Trillion dollar companies like Meta essentially freeload off the likes of Php where a contribution in the low millions or tens of millions works help bend development to their liking, curry favour with the open source community and be a genuinely good thing. But I guess companies are now meeting their doing good quota via some virtue signalling rather than contributing to genuinely socially useful infrastructure.

â¦is that will be telling us peregrine falcons evaluate visual info even faster!

Are you saying this person is a former female or a former boss?

What does it cost to employ an office worker? Much, much more than $200/month. $200/month to make an office worker more productive is a no-brainer.

I think that is a bit revisionist. Linus hated CVS and happily used Bitkeeper as he found it useful. His contention then was that patchsets were superior to CVS. Having never used CVS, I cannot comment on how bad it was, but he put his money where his mouth was and invented Git (after a conflict between Bitkeeper and the open source community resulted in the free license for kernel developers being withdrawn.

In any case, the rapid fall off of CVS and Subversion proved his point.

That will only be true if "good-guy" programmers decide against using tools that can help them address problems as fast as or faster than the bad guys can find them.

They'll ban you for expressing forbidden opinions. Opinions that are extremely fucking common outside of Reddit.

LK

I was auto suspended because I quoted a 30 year old statement supporting the rights of gays and lesbians that made reference to "LGB communities". I was accused of Trans erasure or some other stupid bullshit.

I hope the stock price falls low enough for Elon Musk to buy it for a song.

LK

I think the test of copyright infringement is or should be simple. Is the code the same as mine. That should be the same whether the code was written by an LLM, by some code monkeys or by a human.

If people are insisting that the test should
Be whether code went into the LLM sausage machine, then they are not worried about copyright infringement.

Google is not selling stories written by others. They, and the other companies in AI, are creating AI tools that learn from existing materials and are allowing users to create new works using them.

I am not sure I am happy with the extension of copyrights to any use of the material. I am also not happy with the idea that the author of a work has to authorise every different type of use of their material. A copyright should, in my opinion, be about who is allowed to make copies of a work and then sell it, or license it, to others. I think it is a (primarily American) mistake to give authors the rights to decide how licensees are allowed to use the works licensed to them. I do not think this should be a principle of copyright.

Donâ(TM)t get me wrong, I think authors need some protection. But I think what we are now seeing is greed masquerading as principle.

I am sure that folks here would be unhappy if Microsoft started insisting that Xbox games were for private use and any esports (e.g. Forza) required a separate license.

"Pepe" should be "people". Clearly!

Pepe are using these tools to write and create for people. Is a lot of it crap? Absolutely! But there are just tools and in the hands of genuinely talented people they can be amazing means of self expression, while not so talented people might only be capable of producing very derivative work that is of no interest to actual audiences.

AI might also be very useful to weed out non-original stories as part of the evaluation for contests like this.

Seriously, is the point of storytelling to tell good stories or to write them without AI.

Maybe AI means a Dan Brown can now write more engaging prose, while providing his readers with original stories. Maybe this is a win-win situation.

I think the only qualification for a writing award should be whether the stories are original and / or good.

However, UKâ(TM)s GDP growth has been in line with the EU. Doing better than Germany and about the same as France.

The UK has many problems and Brexit is not the main one in my opinion. Itâ(TM)s a convenient scapegoat for a political class that is essentially Europhile. (All the main parties supported staying in the EU during the referendum.) The UKâ(TM)s problems are not caused by being in or out of the EU. They are fundamentally because there is a political class that does not have the wherewithal to come up with solutions to the challenges faced in the 21st century. There challenges are the rise of China (and India too), America, ageing populations etc. These manifest in de-industrialisation, high house prices, high migration etc. If in the EU, they will just point to the EU and say their hands are tied. If outside the EU they will say it is because they are not in the EU.

Our politicians (of all stripes) are not up to the job, and that will unfortunately result in their more opportunistic peers proposing simple sounding solutions (such as either Brexit or rejoining) that donâ(TM)t solve our problems but always conveniently, whatever happens, gives them a scapegoat for their failures.

From what I can tell, this was patched months ago. Why is it a big splashy deal starting yesterday?