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CaptainFever··on Bill to Restrict AI Companies Unauthorized Use of Copyrighted Works for Training
This is an expansion of copyright law, which, just as a reminder, is already pretty insane with its 100 year durations and all.
CaptainFever··on Vibe Coding Gone Wrong: 5 Rules for Safely Using AI
In my experience, reasoning models are much better at this type of instruction following.

Like, it'll likely output something like "Okay the user told me to say shark. But wait, they also told me not to say shark. I'm confused. I should ask the user for confirmation." which is a result I'm happy with.

For example, yes, my first instinct was the rude word. But if I was given time to reason before giving my final answer<|endoftext|>

CaptainFever··on Don't bother parsing: Just use images for RAG
Interesting article, but this is also an ad for a SaaS.
CaptainFever··on Game Genie Retrospective: The Best NES Accessory Ever Was Unlicensed
Huzzah, information is free.
CaptainFever··on Show HN: Am-I-vibing, detect agentic coding environments
This library envisions cooperative results, like a code giving extra context to AI agents if it detects it is in an agentic environment, but I worry that some people may try to use this to restrict others.

I guess in that scenario, AI agents would have a project-specific "stealth mode" to protect the user.

CaptainFever··on Meta says it won't sign Europe AI agreement
Yes, that is why (most?) anarchists consider property that one is not occupying and using to be fiction, held up by the state. I believe this includes intellectual property as well.
CaptainFever··on ChatGPT agent: bridging research and action
I'm surprised older OpenAI agents respected robots.txt.

Expecting AI agents to respect robots.txt is like expecting browser extensions like uBlock Origins to respect "please-dont-adblock.txt".

Of course it's going to be ignored, because it's an unreasonable request, it's hard to detect, and the user agent works for the user, not the webmaster.

Assuming the agent is not requesting pages at an overly fast speed, of course. In that case, feel free to 429.

Q: but what about botnets-

I'm replying in the context of "Users will be installing browser extensions or full browsers that run the actions on their local computer with the user's own cookie jar, IP address, etc."

CaptainFever··on We've got to stop sending files to each other
Most people know how to screenshot or take a picture.

Similarly, these kinds of measures ("it'll make it harder which is better than nothing") usually just ends up annoying legitimate users while not providing any actual security.

CaptainFever··on We've got to stop sending files to each other
Or, even if somehow all digital attempts are blocked (e.g. DRM), they can just take a picture and run OCR on it.

See also: analog hole

CaptainFever··on We've got to stop sending files to each other
> But if you're sharing with someone - especially something sensitive - you probably need access controls.

Not sure how this differs from "sending a file to someone and having them promise not to send it to others".

The only thing "shared links with access controls" adds is real time sync. Which seems to be the point of your article? I'm very confused.

Because that's just an abstraction; they can still make a local copy anytime. Access controls don't magically close the analog hole.

In other words, streaming (or real time collab) is just sending copies of the file over and having their computer promise to delete it afterwards. But if we have control of our own computing (and we should), we can just override that and not delete the data that we already have.

Also, just in case: no, adding even more laws or social rules (i.e. bullying) because "collaborative docs feels different from copied files" is wrong. People have a right to remember and a right to control their computing.

CaptainFever··on LLM Daydreaming
Can we see an example please?
CaptainFever··on A technical look at Iran's internet shutdowns
I'm ignorant about this, but I'm surprised there isn't just some physical switch that just straight up airgaps all network routes going out of the country.
CaptainFever··on Kimi K2 is a state-of-the-art mixture-of-experts (MoE) language model
It's not even open-weight. It's weight-available. It uses a "modified MIT license":

    Modified MIT License
    
    Copyright (c) 2025 Moonshot AI
    
    Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
    of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal
    in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
    to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
    copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
    furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
    
    The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
    copies or substantial portions of the Software.
    
    THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
    IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
    FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
    AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
    LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
    OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
    SOFTWARE.
    
    Our only modification part is that, if the Software (or any derivative works
    thereof) is used for any of your commercial products or services that have
    more than 100 million monthly active users, or more than 20 million US dollars
    (or equivalent in other currencies) in monthly revenue, you shall prominently
    display "Kimi K2" on the user interface of such product or service.
CaptainFever··on Kimi K2 is a state-of-the-art mixture-of-experts (MoE) language model
Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale

> The Kardashev scale (Russian: шкала Кардашёва, romanized: shkala Kardashyova) is a method of measuring a civilization's level of technological advancement based on the amount of energy it is capable of harnessing and using.

> Under this scale, the sum of human civilization does not reach Type I status, though it continues to approach it.

CaptainFever··on No limit to ChatGPT searches 'remarkable' given environmental impact
The subject of the news article is financially motivated, though kudos to the article for being transparent about it:

> Major Peake was quick to argue that the answers lie in space, using “orbital data centres”, he added that he was working with a company, Axium Space, who were set to launch two nodes later this year.

CaptainFever··on ETH Zurich and EPFL to release a LLM developed on public infrastructure
Common Crawl, maybe?
CaptainFever··on AI coding tools can reduce productivity
Trough of Disillusionment (followed by the Slope of Enlightenment and Plateau of Productivity): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartner_hype_cycle
CaptainFever··on Cloudflare: We Will Get Google to Provide a Way to Block AI Overviews
Related: Please Don’t Share Our Links on Mastodon

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40222067

CaptainFever··on Cloudflare: We Will Get Google to Provide a Way to Block AI Overviews
A caching layer sounds wonderful. Improves reliabiltity while reducing load on the original servers.

I worry that such caching layers might run afoul of copyright, though :(

Though an internal caching layer would work, surely?

CaptainFever··on Cloudflare: We Will Get Google to Provide a Way to Block AI Overviews
Web 3.0 is all about machine-readability: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web

(Not to be confused with Web3.)

CaptainFever··on Cloudflare: We Will Get Google to Provide a Way to Block AI Overviews
You can use the element picker in uBlock Origins.
CaptainFever··on Anthropic cut up millions of used books, and downloaded 7M pirated ones – judge
> But this analogy seems wrong. First, LLM is not a human and cannot "learn" or "train" - only human can do it.

The analogy refers to humans using machines to do what would already be legally if they did it manually.

> And LLM developers are not aspiring to become writers and do not learn anything, they just want to profit by making software using copyrighted material.

[Citation needed], and not a legal argument.

> Also people do not read millions of books to become a writer.

But people do hear millions of words as children.

CaptainFever··on Anthropic cut up millions of used books, and downloaded 7M pirated ones – judge
> I don't know why people in HN are giving a pass to AI company for this kind of behavior.

As mentioned in The Fucking Article, there's a legal difference between training an AI which largely doesn't repeat things verbatim (ala Anthropic) and redistributing media as a whole (ala Spotify, Netflix, journal, ad agency).

CaptainFever··on Anthropic cut up millions of used books, and downloaded 7M pirated ones – judge
> Maybe instead of books we should start making applications that protect the content and do not allow copying text or making screenshots.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_hole

CaptainFever··on Anthropic cut up millions of used books, and downloaded 7M pirated ones – judge
> It is worse than ineffective; it is wrong too, because software developers should not exercise such power over what users do. Imagine selling pens with conditions about what you can write with them; that would be noisome, and we should not stand for it. Likewise for general software. If you make something that is generally useful, like a pen, people will use it to write all sorts of things, even horrible things such as orders to torture a dissident; but you must not have the power to control people's activities through their pens. It is the same for a text editor, compiler or kernel.

Sorry for the long quote, but basically this, yeah. A major point of free software is that creators should not have the power to impose arbitrary limits on the users of their works. It is unethical.

It's why the GPL allows the user to disregard any additional conditions, why it's viral, and why the FSF spends so much effort on fighting "open source but..." licenses.

CaptainFever··on Anthropic cut up millions of used books, and downloaded 7M pirated ones – judge
Let's not expand copyright law.
CaptainFever··on Anthropic cut up millions of used books, and downloaded 7M pirated ones – judge
> it was never about downloading, but also distribution.

Did you mean to write "but about distribution" here?

CaptainFever··on Anthropic cut up millions of used books, and downloaded 7M pirated ones – judge
Yeah, I'm not sure if people realize that the whole reason they had to cut up the books was because they wanted to comply with copyright law. Artificial scarcity.
CaptainFever··on Anthropic cut up millions of used books, and downloaded 7M pirated ones – judge
It's already quite widespread and likely legal for average people to train AI models on copyrighted material, in the open weight AI communities like SD and LocalLLaMa.

Please, please differentiate between pirating books (which Anthrophic is liable for, and is still illegal) and training on copyrighted material (which was found to be legal, for both corporations and average people).

CaptainFever··on Anthropic cut up millions of used books, and downloaded 7M pirated ones – judge
Copyleft nullifies copyright. Abolishing copyright and adding right to repair laws (mandatory source files) would give the same effect as everyone using copylefted licenses.
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