Proprietary projects and clean room implementation is often done without having the source code first though, and a clean room implementation assumes its actually clean. meanwhile, most of llms nowadays cant be verifiably do clean room because the source code is probably there too.

When Linus does clean room to make Linux, does he have access to the source code, or does he need to figure out things by himself and only match the interface later on?

I’m sure both of us aren’t good enough to solve this billion dollar problem, but saying its not a problem to steal someone’s work, disregarding their license (even MIT requires attributions!), and releasing their mangled copy as a new product, is dystopian.

The problem isnt the fact snippets exist in a codebase. The problem is, the entire fucking website is scraped clean of every codebase that has ever existed without paying a dime to their owner, notifying of their usage, and being transparent of their datasets.

How can it be verifiably responsible if their activity is handwaved under the guise of “business secret”? Its literally people using other peoples work without fair compensation, which means stealing, which means someone has to pay.

how about making an effort in the first place? to at least make an effort to list all repository thats being used as training data.

Responsible use of llms can’t be achieved. Can you verify that all of your training data are square with its creators? If not, how is that responsible?

BUT AI IS THE FUTURE PLEASE BRO JUST ONE MORE GPU JUST ONE MORE BOOK JUST ONE MORE RESEARCH ITS GOING TO BE GOOD IT WILL REPLACE EVERYONE PLEASE BRO

Maybe I thought about this too far and missed freenet’s author points, maybe I’m just pissed off with people playing by the rules that wants to remove other people’s privacy and increase the privacy of people in power.

Maybe I’m just lame and this is the coolest thing ever.

robust safeguards against illegal usage

So it’s not truly anonymous? Isn’t the entire point of anonymity is to be against people snooping on your private business? Also, since when illegal a catch-all term for all bad things?

Owning slave was legal, and that is certainly bad. Apartheid is still legal in places and that is certainly bad. Criticizing the govt are illegal in MANY countries, but that is certainly bad. Jaywalking is illegal, but does that warrants it being bad?

Does the author of Freenet appoints his moral to a law other human made, god(s?) made, or he himself made?

Can they ramp up their distribution for south east asia? There’s just too many slop hardware in Indonesia, too many AI, too little rightly built laptops. Can’t believe I said this, but the only sane buy for new laptops are old gens thinkpads and apple devices.

I don’t even like using macs, but it’s true, their build quality is better than your run of the mill asus/acer (the predominant brand here) laptops.