I'm a simple user so libreoffice (Calcs, in this case) suits my needs -but I'm also not using it for work, either.

This, right here, is the bottom line. Money gets what Money wants.

Alternate take; deliberately broken moderation systems and perverse incentives are the biggest source of social media manipulation.

Fix social media, and leave the consumers alone.

Also the firehose of spam will continue regardless of what you do on the consumer end.

Works a treat, I reckon -until the moment comes when you actually want to interact and/or post.

With AI posts and karma farming -not to mention good old-fashioned astroturfing ...how reliable is that, really?

and yet, it remains, in many subreddits.

>Back to old school forums

It's the year of Our Lord 2026. Good luck discovering forums that you don't already know about!

Honestly that seems kind of pointless and a waste of time. Might as well work it out by hand if you're going to go through all that effort

I missed that, link please?

sure, here you go https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49021006

Not a lawyer, but additionally there's also legal concern about the legality of the training source. How can you verify that the model you're using wasn't trained and therefore incorporates code that is not licensed for sharing. e.g. someone theoretically uploading the shared source windows kernel to github and it being added to copilot.

There's no reasonable belief that or similar scenarios cannot happen and does not happen.

That's my problem with Linus's announcement regarding AI in the kernel -since the announcement I'm counting the days until we see SCO II Electric Boogaloo.

There's a lot of people with deep pockets and a deeper hatred of FOSS, and AI gives them the backdoor to take FOSS out -legally, on the grounds of province.

(I'm not a lawyer, this is not legal advice, and this is only my speculation from a layperson's point of view)

> Not a lawyer, but additionally there's also legal concern about the legality of the training source

That's not how copyright works. If you use a pirated copy of photoshop the resulting image is not illegal.

That's apples and oranges; a better analogy would be if you post a video on youtube that you made yourself, with products you're allowed to use, but happen to overlook that copywritten music is on the radio in the background or on the tv.

How many youtube videos have gone dark over bogus copyright claims over the years? And you think people will overlook what's in AI -when there's over a trillion dollars on the table?

If the resulting image contains copyrighted content, such as a snippet of photoshop's proprietary code, then it most certainly might be infringing.

It's not as simple as your reductive analogy. It's for a court to decide.

Of course they are -it goes without saying.