I'd honestly be a little surprised if there's much protective effect.

It's possible that having to go through the setup process yourself is a little too much seeing how the sausage is made vs. interacting with a pleasant frontend cynically put together by someone who knows how 'engagement' works; but it's not like the nerd reputation for skewing socially awkward or the AI bro reputation for reaching a bit too quickly for slightly mystical anthropomorphisms are entirely unearned(the 'soul.md' is a frankly somewhat depressing genre).

At least for now; there might be some confounding demographic effects if you are talking one of the chunkier local models; in a country with a per-capita GDP of ~$14k being able to comfortably afford, or willing to uncomfortably afford, the necessary hardware would make you either at least modestly wealthier than average or significantly more interested than average; but as you slouch toward stuff that runs on more typical hardware the demographic differences presumably decrease.

Because around half the country either doesn't believe that's happening or is in favor of it happening, and "their" side is in control.

Read the 13th and tell us which one we are

A lot of people seem to think that if someone's telling them they love them, it must be true. I don't think they were raised to think.

Speaking from personal experience of both the good and bad kind, you only have successful relationships when they do make sense, and you're not participating out of desperation.

You inserted that into the conversation. Have fun with your mobile goalposts.

people are paying too much for the subscriptions then.
Right now I am using Tidal. was considering Apple music since I have so much Apple stuff and my car supports Apple Music too. The Apple Music interface seemed a little clunky, not that the Tidal app is fantastic either, it seems to be a bit defective sometimes.

I taught Gemini how nose-picking works. They owe me!

You can't stop the LLM if it's published... but you can sue the company that scraped data it was not legally entitled to scrape, and the legal sanctions should involve destruction of the collected archive of training data and all copies of the resulting LLM as well as a financial penalty that is sufficiently large to dissuade future repetitions of the offense.

"But that would harm our bottom line" is not an acceptable defense against this. Don't steal. It's easy.

Of course, stealing's easier if you're a megacorp who can buy politicians and pay settlements out of the corporate equivalent of pocket change.

Yep. And this just means that F-Droid has to have one person sign up and submit all of the apps for signature, as I said.

Besides using fingerprinting for networked devices, mostly the information on what's being used is out there anyway. BSDs used to be massively popular because they were what ran on what you had when you had pretty much anything. Now that's Linux, some version of it anyway. And if anyone really cares, they can dust off those old architectures on some kernel version.

The BSD license was favorable enough in its time, and it led BSD to significant success. But it didn't protect the people and corporations willing to give away the most code, which is why Linux dominated. Now it enjoys network effects. Why would I not want things to work as much the same as possible on everything I need to work with? Especially since it runs on everything.

Yes, there is still BSD out there, but there's very little reason for someone to use it as the basis of a product except wanting the option to abuse their user base. Apple went with NeXTStep not just because of The Jobs, but also because of the appeal of the license. It matches walled gardens.

Because the dictionary publishers didn't copy all those works into their training corpus

They didn't write the ad copy that way on purpose.

When Bill Clinton signed the CDA in 1996, he chortled that it would increase competition. Of course it did the exact opposite, and led to the dominance of Fox News and Sinclair Media and the death of factual reporting. It's not quite ded yet, but this is the move that will lead to our having ONLY full-on state media allowed in our supposedly free country.

Play some songs I haven't heard before, when it cannot know what I have heard, is the perfect example of something AI cannot do. The AI company claiming it can do so is indistinguishable from when AI claims it has done something it cannot do because there is not enough information, but it will give you its fabricated horseshit answer with full confidence.