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A private contract (terms of service) can't redefine federal copyright law, perhaps you're thinking of something else like "authorized access?" Ex:

1. I sneak into a movie theater without paying. Unauthorized access to the movie.

2. I write a review of the movie in the newspaper. Protected by fair-use, even if I sneaked into the theater.

Right, it's not just that they saw the thing but also how they use the knowledge later.

To demonstrate this "what you do next matters" part, assume I get a book from the library and I read it, and I have perfect memory. So far, no problem, even with my fantastical memory. However what I do next matters:

A. I quote several short pieces of the book in a written critique. Fair use.

B. I use what I know to create a statistical breakdown of the author's favorite words and phrases. That's fine too.

C. I retype my own book which is 90% identical to the original and I publish it for money. Nuh-uh. Legal problems abound.

We can debate whether or not these companies are crossing the line, but the line does depend on what they do with the information, not just how they got it.

While I can't rule out megalomania, I think it can be adequately explained as enshittification from corporate incentives. They corporation has trapped enough users/advertisers that now they want to put the squeeze on and extract some rents.

> Microsoft has lost their moat

I think it's a little more complicated than that, there was a submission about it earlier [0], where the author argued:

> EACv2 can't accept self-signed kernels and bootloaders, that would defeat the purpose. This means that, in order to play Fortnite on Linux, you will be forced to use a distribution that Epic approves of, with a bootloader that Epic approves of. This almost guarantees that anyone not running RedHat software is shit out of luck. But it gets worse. [...] Microsoft gets to decide what Linux distributions will run Fortnite. [...]

> Microsoft, the company that, has throughout its entire history, thrived on first controlling the competition to destroy them. They even coined a term for it: "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish". [...] You might as well install Windows at that point.

[0] news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50298563

I assume you mean the already-imposed login-wall for old.reddit.com? AFAIK the login-wall for everything hasn't started rolling out.

Or go to one of the more woo-woo chiropractors and "subluxation" will put light into your bones.

Over the years I've seen way way too many off-by-one errors when people reflect on who was "in charge" at the time.

P.S.: Looks like the lack of clear support for GPU stuff is decisively against it for me, I still want to play some Linux games, so I'll probably need to look into different ways to sandbox/limit things.

> uses LLMs to learn

I worry that--while they can be a strong fuzzy search tool-- their teaching ability falters because teaching involves possessing a theory-of-mind for the student and trying to figure out what will change how they think. A good teacher doesn't just present you with relevant facts, they try to figure out how you're reaching conclusions.

Note that I'm excluding propoganda-style "teaching" here, where a model just insists you're wrong and that all the cool kids are doing it etc.

It's interesting how often "not business-friendly" overlaps with "promotes a free market". Or at least, the meaning of the term when people are talking about economic efficiencies, where prices are public to encourage competition.

That said, anything opposing conflicts of interest and pseudo-bribery from the current administration is indeed uncharacteristic.

Sounds more like "the end" of LLM-training startups.