Considering that overwhelming majority of tech workers is already using AI, this is going to go places.

Not good places mind you.

I don't know. Those licenses always had terms, fine print, and EULAs. Many of which I an confident had clauses that allowed the vendor to terminate your write to use the software at least under certain conditions.

Just because they had not effective detection and enforcement mechanism does not mean the legal condition never existed.

Honestly that gets us into other odd questions like what is a sold license is it an authorized/authenticated copy, the split of paper the license terms are printed on? If you did continue to use the software after an action that should have triggered revocation but the company did nothing to stop you from continuing would that take us into "adverse possession" territory?

Honestly if the lawyers really want to have fun the whole world around selling boxed copies of software with 'enter your license key' from the disk sleeve could have become really strange had it continued.

This is the problem. The practical uses cases as I understand them pretty much fall into the same buckets we use NLP for now. If you don't want to use LLM or GenAI technology we already have a lot of really great ML/NLP tools that do a really really good job.

In fact a lot of these tools would do a better (or at least more reliable) job of about 70% of what I see companies deploying in the customer service chat bot space, they'd be much cheaper and faster too. I have tried to explain to several clients, "You know you could do all this with Google DialogFlow" but no they'd rather wank around building MCP/SEE/Agenic replacements for the REST services they already have, futz around with prompt design, and then figure out how to test for abuse cases all so they can pay for tokens..

By they time you chain down Gemini/CoPilot/GTP down to respond in corporate approved ways half of customers could not tell the difference anyway and most would probably enjoy an experience that is consistent focused and quick.

And so it seems to go with 2Brains here, seems like an expensive and complicated way to do things we have been able to do well with NLP for 15 years now. Using LLM at scale means an expensive and complicated pile of machinery, but what is attractive about using them places where they are not really needed is "Its what all the cool kids are doing" not the expensive and complex part... Good luck 2brains...

The reason why a lot of European cities still have mass transit that functions is because these are still mostly homogenous, high trust societies when it was deployed. That means things like accosting passengers, random violence, theft and other antisocial behaviors that normal passengers can't escape (because you're in a metal/plastic/glass box trapped with the murderer/thief/etc).

In US, a lot of public transit is useless because of cases like Irina Zarutska. You can have the busses, the metro, etc, and it's used only if utterly necessary because the risk of "another crazy freak will just stab you in the neck" is relevant.

Essentially, successful build out of mass transit is a marker of high trust society that has purged lowest 1-2% of its people from commons.

This sort of "show how you're winning" advertising has been a thing with gambling since before mass media.

You'd have card sharks doing things like fake players who win a lot to entice actual targets to play and lose.

Buy indie games.

It's only the big players who have these delusions.

"Sorry, this content is not available in your region."

Very useful.

I'm not saying the right answer is to get a refund. The right answer is to not make the license revokable.

For the theater comparison: If the theatre would invalidate my ticket and throw me out mid-movie, you can be sure that I'd ask for a refund. And in any sane jurisdiction, I'd get it.

Yes, but once you sell copies with atringa attached, you cannot change the strings after the fact.

Once you give out a license with a Windows CD that allows the user to run it, you cannot change yohr mind and say "wait, you can't run it anymore, I changed my mind, but I WILL keep your money" -- which is what Sony does.

Licensed for how long? And how do you obtain a copy of the software to exercise your licensed rights?

Mostly, the difference is some legales, but the kicker is: "revocable". That is an insane difference. I'm quite sure it doesn't say you get a refund if they revoke your license.

Demeanor...yes. Policy? Mixed bag at best. Some things obviously good like telling NASA to go full private sector for launch services. Some things obviously awful like incentivising mass illegal migration by de-facto legalizing a large swathe of illegals through very tenuous legal authority and/or prosecutorial discretion.

If congressional Republicans hadn't had their heads firmly up their asses at the time (but I repeat myself) they should have impeached and convicted Obama for exceeding his authority on daca.

But again: people lose elections for being meanies, and they win elections by giving away free stuff, so there we are.

There's a Futurama joke from 25 years ago encoded somewhere in that comment. Oy I'm old.

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Digitized voice signals and used an OTP distributed as matching phonograph records. Operational in 1942.