Just use Firefox!
Switch to Linux!
Why are you still on Twitter?
Only old people use Facebook!
[Silence about that site we don't talk about.]
Am I missing any?
lolcatnip
joined 2 years ago
BTW do you know anyone who's hiring buggy whip makers?
I'll get right on that because I hate having money. /s
What exactly do you think universal basic income is?
What's the one just under the M? It looks like the Microsoft Teams logo except the people date hugging.
plagiarism machine
This is called assuming the consequent. Either you're not trying to make a persuasive argument or you're doing it very, very badly.
Training is theft imo.
Then it appears we have nothing to discuss.
Christ this is a boring fucking debate. One side thinks companies like OpenAI are obviously stealing and feels no need to justify their position, instead painting anyone who disagrees as pro-theft.
But is it reasonable to have different standards for someone creating a picture with a paintbrush as opposed to someone creating the same picture with a machine learning model?
Copyright applies to reproduction of a work so if they build any machine that is capable of doing that (they did) then they are liable for it.
That is for sure not the case. The modern world is bursting with machines capable of reproducing copyrighted works, and their manufacturers are not liable for copyright violations carried out by users of those machines. You're using at least once of those machines to read this comment. This stuff was decided around the time VCRs were invented.
Every big company suffers from "not invented here" syndrome. It's not always just because of arrogance. For example, as an engineer at Google, it can be less hassle to use a first-party library than a third-party one.
Also your list of examples is pretty bad. Guava is one I remember filling a real need when I worked at a small Java shop, and as I recall there was no widely used alternative to Protobuf when it came out. Gradle isn't even from Google at all!