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To be honest, as much as people complain about EU regulations and bureaucracy, at least they are highly predictable. Every relevant piece of regulation, like the GDPR and the AI Act, was probably more than five years in the making and then added another year or two to take effect.

If I were a frontier lab with a billion-dollar investment under my belt, I wouldn't want to operate in a regulatory environment with the same prediction horizon as the weather.

I do not disagree that there is a political aspect to this article. Todays news on Fable and Mythos are political too. HN has plenty of political articles, yet some are more flagged than others.

I claim there might be a pattern of supression. Are arguing against my main point that it would be good to have more transparency so I can support or refute my claim?

I hate the tendency to make things up and I dont mean hallucinations.

I once had claude code write a python script that emulated the output of my training script, including pretending that loss is decreasing. Why? Because it was unable to install a python dependency.

Everytime I use a coding agent, I need to double check that it's not cutting corners, hard coding things that shouldn't be or straight up rewriting failing test cases.

What I need more is honesty.

Doesn't YC have some code of conduct or legal/ethical guidelines? I would assume a legal and compliance department would have some major headache if documented cases of misconduct jeopardize later due diligence. I would not fund or aquire a company on the radar of national regulatory bodies for something as stupid as this.

Isn't search engine results a product that Google offers? [1] I find the argument quite strange that website owners agreed to Google being able to do anything with that data beyond displaying them in their search results when they wrote that robots.txt maybe ten years ago, but others shall not access those results programatically.

I certainly did not and find using the content google scraped from my website for money or AI (which they also sell on a token basis) more questionable than some third party offering API access to it.

[1] https://docs.cloud.google.com/generative-ai-app-builder/docs...

I'm afraid this will soon be abused by spammers & criminals around the world. I think having a free plan in the space of sending mail is a bad idea and puts paying customers at risk of being disrupted because your IP (-block) landed on someones blacklist.

Simple, by defining the price for customers they have insufficient data on as max(price). Private mode and VPN are actually super easy to detect for someone willing to extract the maximum value out of you.

If it were any good I would assume there would be no need to hype it up.

My theory is that LLMs will get commoditized within the next year. The edge that OpenAI had over the competition is arguably lost. If the trend continues we will be looking at inference like commodity prices, where the most efficient like cerebras and groq will be the only ones actually making money at the end.

Impersonation is a mean, which can often but does not always necessitate fraud. One might impersonate Arnold Schwarzenegger for comedic effect, one might also impersonate a daughter to steal money from a grandma. Stealing the money is the crime here, one does not impersonate without purpose, the purpose defines the severity (or lack of) crime...

AI 2027 1 year ago

This is absurd, like taking any trend and drawing a straight line to interpolate the future. If I would do this with my tech stock portfolio, we would probably cross the zero line somewhere late 2025...

If this article were a AI model, it would be catastrophically overfit.

1/3 seems underpaid. Good senior level devs in the DACH (Germany, Austria, Swiss) region can easily earn 85-100k€. Though you might need to get good networking, finding seniors is hard here, people stay at a job longer so most senior positions are not via application but referal or getting offered a job directly by someone in upper managment.

Generally quality of life and especially food is better in europe. Also people tend to get better work-life balance.

Blaming "High living costs" is like blaming the victim of a theft for carrying something of value in the first place.

Come on use the words that are actually plaguing PhD programs, exploitation of cheap labor and minimum pay for working endless hours

I think you are better off listening to lawyers instead of taking advice from strangers.

That being said that fact that there is no shareholder agreement might work in you favour here, since you can walk away and keep your 49% shares. Usually there are provisions that would prevent large stakes if an individual leaves the company early (vesting schedule/cliff).