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No more absurd than US card schemes dictating what I can and can't buy in another country.

As you say, network programs activating from a master network management is, of course, the history of Unix. It's ironic to see knee-jerk complaints about it.

This to me is interesting when it comes to free software projects; sure there are a lot of people contributing as their day job. But if you contribute or manage a project for the pleasure of it, things which undermine your enjoyment - cleaning up AI slop - are absolutely a thing to say "fuck off" over.

There are already companies promising to attack Wikipedia and product LLM-bait YouTube content. Ship's sailed.

Foxes live happily in urban areas all over Britain. The problem here is the Google employees.

> AI companies aren't seriously arguing that copyright shouldn't apply to them because "it's bad for business".

AI companies have, in fact, said that the law shouldn't apply to them or they won't make money. That is literally the argument Nick Clegg is using to ague that copyright protection should be removed from authors and musicians in the UK.

If you cared about your privacy, why are you handing all this stuff to Sam Altman? Did he represent that OpenAI would be privacy-preserving? Have they taken any technical steps to avoid this scenario?

> Designers hated Nielsen.

Several of the designers I worked with liked him, in as much as he gave them research to back them in their arguments with clients that the site should actually be usable.

It is still one of the high points of my career that I was part of a team that shipped an internet banking application that worked well in the then-current major browsers of IE 6 and Navigator 4, but also worked in Lynx and on a Palm Pilot browser.

We've now degenerated to the point that "engineers" demand Chrome everywhere.

I imagine Telegram-based training data will bias Grok to reflect Musk's own views more reliably than any other platform out there.

You're correct that Christian Zionists only care about Jews to the extent that the right number of them will be in Israel to be killed as part of the End Times prophecies based off of Revelations. But they are fanatical supporters of the state of Israel because they see it as necessary to bring about the rapture.

Man, I remember the absolute hysteria here over the non-profit trying to reign Altman in. You'd have thought they were murdering babies.

I agree with your analysis, but it's hilarious that it's now top-voted, when the sentiment was so negative when the board saw the same thing coming ages ago.

> South Korea

The West supported an brutal military dictatorship in South Korea for decades. South Korean democracy is the result of internal struggle by the South Korean people.

I mean it's true that there's a rule, but at this point in US history I think we have reason to be sceptical that it will be enforced.