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HeralFacker

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    Comment #41825814

    No, ending proprietary software does not end copyright. Even after reading your arguments, I'm not sure how you got to that conclusion. You argued quite the opposite, in fact, by c…

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    Comment #41825781

    Yes, it's called functional programming and it's been around for a while

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    Comment #41824795

    Where is the transparency statement about whether or not this is farming flight data for one of the for-profit rocket companies?

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    Comment #41815824

    Exactly. Proprietary software and software patents need to end. In the case of medical devices, such restrictions violate the ADA by blocking access to reasonable accomodations.

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    Comment #41756613

    Blackhole Bytedance's ASNs. Cobalt is an end-user tool, so there's not much legitimacy to a cloud service accessing it.

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    Comment #41735970

    I wonder if the inherent public domain nature of genAI output will lead to licensing issues and forced code releases in the future. Someone would have to prove slop code was used; …

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    Comment #41728552

    I've had WhatsApp for years and while it does ask for contacts, it works just fine if you deny that permission.

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    Comment #41694600

    They didn't automate it away, they did the same old practice of hiding it in sweatshops.

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    Comment #41656935

    Converting to a for-profit changes the tax status of donations. It also voids plausibility for Fair Use exemptions. I can see large copyright holders lining up with takedowns deman…

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    Comment #41656915

    None of that is external verification. You're using the generating tool to do the verification, leaving the door open for opaque errors.

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    Comment #41597383

    What external checks are included to verify the chatbot output?

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    Comment #41539732

    Facial recognition systems are generally utterly broken. Other examples of this: - user-presence detection systems that can't see you if you have dark skin (Apple FaceID has/had th…

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    Comment #41403399

    Do you have a link to a copy of the video with captions? YouTube autogen doesn't cut it unfortunately. Or perhaps a written-form version (slide deck + transcript)? What's in the 8%…