sly010

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Comment · 1 month ago
Comment · 1 month ago
That would require effort (to sort, acquire copyright, etc) which they wouldn't put in. Because they don't care.

People obviously feel bad about companies doing this. People reading these stories don't care what's legal, they care what's ethical. Heck, re-publishing long lost material would make AI companies heroes instead of bad guys.

Comment · 1 month ago
Well, they could turn the bad faith story into a good faith story by making them available for everyone to download perhaps. (AI companies "saving" old books!) But that would require giving a s*t which they don't and that is the real problem imho.
Comment · 1 month ago
Came here to say the same. I closed the window on the spot. I don't even care if I miss out on something.
Comment · 1 month ago
I like how the article contains 0 useful information about the problem beyond the title.
Comment · 1 month ago
I think the turing test is still very much load-bearing — if you know what I mean.
Comment · 2 months ago
This whole thing reminds me of the "I am writing to inform you that a fire has broken out..." scene from IT crowd. It's ridiculously inefficient.
Comment · 2 months ago
I hate to be pedantic, but if you are the _reviewer_ you do not control the authors claude skills. Sure you can push back a few times but in most teams I worked the author can just decide to get a stamp from someone else. Then as a reviewer you loose all remaining influence. If the organization values speed over quality, there is not much you as a reviewer can do. This seems like a leadership/culture issue not a technical issue.
Comment · 2 months ago
"Recovery" would be a more apt (although less catchy name). The stealing is on the provider side for not giving you access to tokens you already paid for.
Comment · 3 months ago
> Deterministic AI.

Aka, a computer program.

Comment · 3 months ago
Beware, there are versions of go where sendfile is broken and only sends the first 4k of a file on macos.
Comment · 4 months ago
> people over-rate how much software/IP is useful in running a successful business

Indeed, by a couple trillions...

Comment · 5 months ago
I don't think people doubt what AI _could_ do, they just have been through enough enshitification cycles to know this is not any different. Right now AI is better than Google but only because Google regressed so much. Market forces always prevail. The operating costs are just too high to offer AI for free for everyone but people will refuse to pay, so AI (at least for the masses) will become just an other marketing funnel companies can buy out. I also don't see how AI will change the fact that clothing companies target average users and don't serve the long tail.
Comment · 5 months ago
No batteries!? Go has a huge stable standard library no other language even comes close to. Built in tooling for unit testing, performance testing, debugging, code formatting, package management, etc. And most go binaries can be compiled statically so libc is not even a dependency. Golang is the definition of batteries included.
Comment · 7 months ago
Then of course there is the whole fractal nature of software. As you add more detail, the arrows can flip flop around. Polling in a lower level of a stack can very much be used as a push mechanism. (e.g. USB interrupts are in fact the host polling the device)

This is why communicating architecture is often as hard if not harder than implementing it.

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