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Stack Overflow deals with that issue by having a license agreement.
GitHub, Bitbucket, GCE, AWS…all have licensing agreements for user contributions which the user flagged as “public” so I’m not exactly clear of your point if you are holding SO up as a bastion of intellectual property rights different from the other places LLM training sets were scraped from.
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We can solve that question in an intuitive way: if human input is not what is driving the output then it would be sufficient to present it with a fraction of the current inputs, say everything up to 1970 and have it generate all of the input data from 1970 onwards as output. If that does not work then the moment you introduce AI you cap their capabilities unless humans continue to create original works to feed the AI…
This is known as the data processing inequality. Non-invertible functions can not create more information than what is available in their inputs: https://blog.blackhc.net/2023/08/sdpi_fsvi/ . Whatever arithmetic operations are involved in laundering the inputs by stripping original sources & references can not lead to novelty that wasn't already available in some combination of the inputs. Neural networks can at best…
If so, I'm not sure it's a useful framing.
For novel writing, sure, I would not expect much truly interesting progress from LLMs without human input because fundamentally they are unable to have human experiences, and novels are a shadow or projection of that.
But in math – and a lot of programming – the "world" is chiefly symbolic. The whole game is searching the space for new and useful arrangements. You don’t need to create new information in an information-theoretic sense for that. Even for the non-symbolic side (say diagnosing a network issue) of computing, AIs can interact with things almost as directly as we can by running commands so they are not fundamentally disadvantaged in terms of "closing the loop" with reality or conducting experiments.
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Ah, those days, where you would slice your designs and export them to tables.
I remember building really complex layouts w nested tables, and learning the hard way that going beyond 6 levels of nesting caused serious rendering performance problems in Netscape.
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And this is just the stuff you notice. 1) Verbatin copy is first-order plagiarism. 2a) Second-order plagiarism of written text would be replacing words with synonyms. Or taking a book paragraph by paragraph and for each one of them, rephrasing it in your own words. Yes, it might fool automated checkers but the structure would still be a copy of the original book. And most importantly, it would not contain any new inf…
If a human did 2a or 2b we would think that a larger infraction than (1) because it shows intent to obfuscate the origins. As for your free software is dead argument: I think it is worse than that: it takes away the one payment that free software authors get: recognition. If a commercial entity can take the code, obfuscate it and pass it off as their own copyrighted work to then embrace and extend it then that is the…
Good point. Reminds me of how if you poison one person, you go to prison, but when a company poisons thousands, it gets a fine... sometimes.
> it takes away the one payment that free software authors get: recognition
I keep flip-flopping on this. I did most of my open source work not caring about recognition but about the principles of GPL and later AGPL. However, I came to realize it was a mistake - people don't judge you by the work you actually do but by the work you appear to do. I have zero respect for people who do something just for the approval of others but I am aware of the necessity of making sure people know your value.
One thing is certain: credit/recognition affect all open source code, user rights (e.g. to inspect and modify) affect only the subset under (A)GPL.
Both are bad in their own right.
Context is king. The problem is that you are the one currently telling Claude how close it is and what to do next. But if you give it the tools to do that itself, it will make a world of difference. Give Claude a way to iteratively poke at what it created (such as a playwright harness), and screenshot of what you want, and maybe a way to take a screenshot in Playwright and I think you will get much closer. You might…
I'd be curious to see how Antigravity compares for the same task with its automatic browser agentic validation logic.
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Ah, those days, where you would slice your designs and export them to tables.
Gosh, there was a website, where you submit a PSD + payment, and they spit out a sliced design. Initially tables, later, CSS. Life saver.
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What do you mean? Raw html is the original website source code. Modern web development completely poisoned young generation
I'm using source code like it's used when referring to source code vs executables. React doesn't simply spit out HTML, nor the JSX used to write said React code, it outputs a mixture of things that's the optimized HTML/CSS/JS version of the React you wrote. This is akin to source code and the optimized binaries we actually use. Perhaps the wrong usage of "source code". I probably should've been more precise. Forgive…
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Claude could probably have written a script to do it. I'm hunting assets to confirm. Edit: yup very easy for claude. Most of the wall time was spent installing cv2 in a venv (uv dropped python 3.14 on claude, which seemed to get stuck compiling numpy or something so I interrupted and told claude to just use python 3.13 instead). ME: In this directory there are two images: @p-pressbox.gif and @screenshot.png. @p-press…
Oh what the heck. That worked really well for you. Would you be willing to recreate all the html and push it up to github? I'll drop the repo at the top of the blog post. It would be really cool for me to see this completely done and a great way to finish out the blog post. I obviously couldn't do it.
spacejam-1996.png is a full screenshot of the Space Jam 1996
landing page. We want to recreate this landing page as faithfully
as possible, matching the screenshot exactly.
The asset directory contains images extracted from the original
site. One of the images is tiled as the background of the landing
page. The other images should appear once in the screenshot. Use
these images as assets.
Precise positioning is very important for this project, so you
should writing a script that finds the precise location of each
asset image in screenshots. Use the tool to detect precise
positions in the target and fine tune the generated webpage. Be
sure to generate diagnostic images that can be easily reviewed by
a human reviewer.
Use python 3.13 and uv to create a venv while working.
At this point all the image assets are pixel perfect but the footer is in the wrong place and I had to hold Claude's hand a bit to get the footer into the approximately correct spot:
I noticed you were struggling to find the position of the footer
text. You could try rendering two versions of the generated page, the
second time with the footer text black. Subtracting those two images
should give you a clean view of the footer text.
You are getting confused with the site map when analyzing the
original screenshot. You could blank out the positions of assets
so that they are not interfering with your analysis.
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Oh what the heck. That worked really well for you. Would you be willing to recreate all the html and push it up to github? I'll drop the repo at the top of the blog post. It would be really cool for me to see this completely done and a great way to finish out the blog post. I obviously couldn't do it.
I got pretty far with this initial prompt: spacejam-1996.png is a full screenshot of the Space Jam 1996 landing page. We want to recreate this landing page as faithfully as possible, matching the screenshot exactly. The asset directory contains images extracted from the original site. One of the images is tiled as the background of the landing page. The other images should appear once in the screenshot. Use these ima…
Classic.
This is awesome. Great work. Please follow up again if you happen to nail it.
Claude is surprisingly bad at visual understanding. I did a similar thing to OP where I wanted Claude to visually iterate on Storybook components. I found outsourcing the visual check to Playwright in vision mode (as opposed to using the default a11y tree) and Codex for understanding worked best. But overall the idea of a visual inspection loop went nowhere. I blogged about it here: https://solbach.xyz/ai-agent-acces…