- cross-posted to:
- technology@beehaw.org
- cross-posted to:
- technology@beehaw.org
You heard it here folks. Microsoft says if you find something online, it’s free.
Which is why I boycott as hard as I can every service this evil corporation provides (migrate your MS GitHub project away now so I can delete this account too)
Cool so we can just make up our own rules now. Well, all Microsoft products are freeware now because the same reason this guy
Windows XP code was leaked 2 years ago, so it’s freeware according to this idi… stable genius .
Ok… so from now on … when I see a “repackaged” Microsoft product that for some reason… which I don’t care to know… doesn’t ask for a payment… I can use it without restrictions ?!! that’s really nice of you Microsoft … thank you.
So Windows XP source code leak is now freeware?
Fair, then everything I can find on the Internet must be freeware too. Set the sails, matey!
No officer, this is not a pirated movie. It’s generated by an AI model I created and trained with data from the internet and the fact that it’s 99% identical to an existing movie is irrelevant.
my AI is so good, it generated one that’s 100% identical
plus my AI uses less than 99% of the electricity of Microsoft’s
Can I just call lossy compression AI and use this as a defense?
It is an algorithm… So yes.
Also, this ground breaking AI model I made to do this was umm accidentally erased and I also forgot how to do make it.
Jury: “seems reasonable”
As one person on Mastodon said, “AI is a toxic industry created by toxic people with toxic ideals”.
I wouldn’t go that far. As it turns out AI is a buzz word and buzz words have little meaning
Yea I thought about that too. But apparently some people find “AI” useful.
I find LLMs very useful
Too much of an environmental impact for the usefulness imo.
I don’t care. They are really helpful for a many different tasks. It doesn’t pull that much power to run locally on my machine.
Mister/miss, LLMs that can run locally are fine. It’s the infrastructure and the large scale of commercial cloud LLMs that create some issues. You have to read some researches on this topic.
If an LLM can save me 30 minutes writing nice emails and responses and help me brainstorm, debug, or elucidate my thoughts then it is very useful.
You really put 30 minutes of your own time above all of downsides this has for the rest of us who don’t have a use for it (most of the world)?
What downsides are there?
All of the resources and energy spent to get you this product you like. You can’t discount what it took to create something just because the final product is small and efficient. Take a look at the manufacturing footprint of nearly all complex hardware.
I’m not saying you created the AI but you are one of its supporters, without which there would be no AI.
If this was all just pitched as developing a new plain English coding language, I think the hype following it would be far more appropriate, but then the funding wouldn’t follow to support the massive development costs of AI.
Its become a circle of hype chasing money chasing hype.
Its not you that is the problem so to speak though, its the collective “you’s” who think the same way.
I’m not discounting it. Improving productivity for office workers by 1% across the world is a massive amount
The power used to train the AI is alot, but after that using the AI uses a lot less electricity, if an AI spikes my gpu by 10 seconds to type something that would have taken me 30 minutes, I’ve saved on electricity:
I look forward to the lawsuits that will ultimately cost this man his job.
From the article:
Also, in 2022, several unidentified developers sued OpenAI and GitHub based on claims that the organizations used publicly posted programming code to train generative models in violation of software licensing terms
They can argue about it not being a copy all they want. If there is a single GPL licenced line of code scraped then anything they produce is a derivative work & must be licenced GPL.
nice.
The only way I can see them weaseling out of this is by keeping the program running the model made in-house and proprietary while releasing the model in a format unusable without the base (proprietary) program. But maybe the GPL forbids such obfuscstion efforts (I don’t know, I haven’t studied it in detail)
Sure thing…now GPL/Creative Commons all your code involved in any way for your models, documentation, parameters, data sets, and allow full unlimited integration and modification by any parties to any portion of it.
It’s freeware until someone else take m$ content without paying them, then it’s copyright infringement.
The social contract? Tf. The social contract still required attribution in almost all cases for creative work unless explicitlf stated otherwise—especially in the case of comercial products like ChatGPT—so I don’t know where this joker is getting his ideas.
He seems to be confusing “freeware”, which is basically a license for copyrighted work, with “public domain”, which is the absence of a copyright.
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Yeah but anything you create automatically has a copyright, so for example this comment is not in the public domain. Its use is limited to the context I am using it in. That is, I expect it to be copied for federation purposes, but I wouldn’t say that AI is covered in this context.
At least that’s the EU stance afaik. Like if I saw this comment on a billboard somewhere I’d see that as a breach of copyright and even privacy.
Wow the head of AI for MS doesn’t know what the word freeware means.
The definition is being changed by Microsoft
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I’d like to see this “CEO of AI” stand on the same ground as the CEO of Sex