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At the very least the public should receive full open-weight open-source models in return for their transgressions. Failing that, may I suggest the guillotine?

Hey, if the bastards can use residential IPs to suck all information into their models with their crawlers, so can we!

Maybe these things should be utilities that can be swapped out at will and shouldn’t even be privately owned at all? Heresy, I know!

DIt disn’t even occur to me that I need voice control. Stop car. Enter destination. Drive. How hard is that?

Are you sure about that? Tech cuts both ways & asymmetric drone warfare has become cheaper than ever … how hard it is it to sink some yachts or down some jets?

But will you need overpriced Codex and Claude? Most business code is crappy SaaS and glorified CRUD apps & I can build those with Sonnet / DeepSeek just fine …

Besides the language barrier it’s actually also just simpler to do business with the Chinese. There are issues like censorship but they are known & can be routed around. It’s best to just ignore the US and move your business elsewhere.

Why microservices when small composable CLI tools seem a better fit for LLMs?

Good! Then a much-needed correction in behavior will follow.

How do I get a domain name? What is a VPS? What the hell is nginx? How do I write a plain text file in Word? I don't have time for this ...

No that’s the system working as intended: there’s good private money to be made on incarcerating the poor and uneducated!

Because Apple won’t give you access to what you need as a dev for this kind of thing on iPhone: always-on audio listening to multiple streams : ambient sound, my voice, whatever is playing in my headphones … think an AI assistant listens to audiobooks together with you and allows you to ask questions / lookup things etc …

Why? Europe is a collection of sovereign nations, not a federation of states like the US?

Arguably what they win in input training cost they may lose in output censorship cost? But then again the line between Western “Guardrails” and Eastern “Censorship” isn’t all that clear.

But what about “assisted by” AI? Plenty of people use LLMs to enhance their writing abilities, like, say, ‘90s era grammar & spell check. Plenty of AI users are sophisticated enough to understand that dumping pure AI-Gen content is a bad idea. And what’s wrong with AI-enhanced speach?

“Linked their identities to X” is the key behavior to understand here. A lot of creative people have linked their identities to activities that are low on the food chain for AI. The close-minded creatives will resist AI because it threatens the identities they built for themselves, the open-minded ones will embrace AI as a tool to increase their creativity.

I thought the explicit goal of AI was to create systems that can do tasks that typically require human intelligence. That includes beneficial things like finding cures for diseases, technology innovation, etc … Wouldn’t it be a shame to limit this growth potential to protect friggin’ YouTubers?

Maybe go after the application, not the technology? Someone uses AI to explicitly plagiarize an artist’s content? Sure, go ahead & sue! But limiting the growth potential of a whole class of technology seems like a bad idea, a really bad idea actually if your military enemy had made that same technology a top priority for the next years …

This is going onto be extremely unpopular, but I think an argument could be made that we need to give AI research an exemption from copyright enforcement until we have a significant lead on China in AI development. They sure as hell are not going to obey Western copyright law in training their models.

Maybe the energy demand of AI will finally get us to invest in nuclear at the scale it deserves?

… and this is how you lose an AI war to an enemy who has been ignoring copyright laws for decades. Unless it’s clear that “more data” does NOT produce faster progress it’s just safer to anllow indiscriminate scraping.

I sometimes worry that qualms about copyright & ethics will make us lose the machine learning arms race with China. If « The unreasonable effectiveness of data » still holds true then we are in big trouble.

Why would a Chinese vendor not be able to offer AI in Western makrkets. Qwen is pretty good in English too.

Airdrop just about never works for me. It’s slow to connect if it connects at all. And this is between my own devices connected to the same iCloud account.

Selling art as a way of making a living actually is a pretty recent thing. Up until not too long ago patronage was pretty much the only way to survive for artists. Maybe we will go back to that model?

In my view it’s ethical even if it’s just for taking revenge on the ad-driven model that has caused the enshittification of the web.

Not necessarily, that entirely depends on the reward function being used, but I get your point.

The platform talk had a bit more architectural details and it looks like they heavily optimize / compress the Foundation model to run for specific tasks on-device. I'm guessing that sticking to US English allows them to compress the foundation model further?

Me! I’m dumping text I write into an LLM all-day to help with editing. And I often start brainstorming / research by opening ChatGPT in voice mode, talk to it and keep a browser open at the same time to fact-check the output.

It’s all free

I asked up thread and people apparently have concerns about the IP and think that AI images often lack taste.