wuarchive.wustl.edu, ftp.funet.fi!

There are some showstoppers here, though. You have to either:

A) Change the laws in all countries (a non-starter), or B) Restrict access to only countries that obey those laws

And Option B is a non-starter to the freedom crowd.

Not to mention all the other issues with labeling, such as:

A) How to label in an internationally-agreeable way B) How to prevent abusive mislabeling

It's fraught, this path.

V-Chip all over again. Now with mandatory browser extensions which hook into the OS' parental controls.

It's no better.

I love PWAs. I just hope they never get too popular, or Google will kill them.

As much as I don't want it to be, this is a misrepresentation of what the Nvidia exec was likely saying. "Humans are cheaper than AI!" vs "We have one engineer spending $2 million annually on compute".

You can think of one engineer as manager. Question is whether that $2 million spend is more or less than spend on employees doing the work the AI has delivered under direction of one engineer.

If the same work would have been cheaper if done by people, then yes AI is more expensive.

I don't understand how a company can have IP copyright rights on code that is inherently uncopyrightable (in the unlikely event scotus rules that way).

Worst case, meta will sue the programmer who produced infringing code.

I mean if the code is not copyrighteable that does not mean anything; it's just public domain code except that meta will just use good old security by obscurity to protect it. If somehow a meta programmer vibes code, say, VVVVVV, and Terry Cavanagh recognizes it on his facebook feed and sues meta, and wins, all that will happen is that meta will take down the copy of VVVVVV, will fire and sue the engineer that vibe coded it and call it a day.

I love that genAI art will not be copyrightable and genAI code will be. The power of the Almighty Dollar at work.

IANAL but this sounds more like trademark territory.

You can also trademark a character if it’s used as a brand identifier in commerce.

There are far more characters protected by copyright than trademark.

One of my friends argues that we've reached maximum CS knowledge. We'll just use AI and neither it nor us will learn anything new.

The irony is that writing the best code possible is now a recipe for unemployment.

I spent 20 years in industry before moving to academia, and this resonates for me. I'm not naive enough to think that we'll do the right thing here, but I can dream.

Interesting.

I spent 8 years in academia (2004 - 2012) before moving to Industry. But as I've aged I've thinking of going back. I made it good in Industry so I have enough to jump to Academia without worrying about money... but I just hated the "publish or perish" mentality, and writing papers (I wonder what's the state of that now with LLMs... back in the day I was reviewer for some journals and most papers were pretty bad).