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“You wouldn't reverse-engineer a car, would you?”

>Did you mean "making AI cloning illegal would be meaningingless"?

This.

My two cents, making AI cloning would be meaningless for two reasons:

1) First, AI models will eventually be able to do clean-room reverse engineering by just looking at how the program works at the user level ("Oh, if I click on X menu, it's supposed to happen", writing documentation, etc.).

2) From a practical point, the whole "you can't reverse engineer by looking at the code" was only held in court because back in the day, reverse engineering wasn't as easy or cheap as it is nowadays. You literally could prevent people (large companies) from doing it because it was expensive and hard, and companies that could do it were afraid of lawsuits. This is not the case anymore. So the sheer numbers and the scale will make any law preventing reverse engineering by looking at the source code meaningless from all practical standpoints; it was never so cheap to reverse enginer and to "launder" the code you decompiled from such proprietary software binaries.

As far as I understand: many people use Telegram channels as a sort of Twitter-like social media, since you can set the channel to publicly available and anyone with app can read what you wrote, and even interact with you through, like voting through giving your post an emoji or commenting on it (if you enabled comments).

The article is written in German, but with a Google Translate you can understand the just of it. Apparently Telegram added a new blocking system based on phone numbers, sorta a geo-blocking thing, and people with German phone numbers registered on their Telegram accounts aren't able to access those blocked channels.

Also, unlike the previous block this one applies even to the users who are using the app downloaded directly from Telegram site and not the iOS/Google Play version.

The blocking happens after German minister of interior had a meeting with Telegram directors a few days ago.