@dalias I think you are attributing way too much agency to them.
It's not high aspirations for AI's capabilities. It's fundamental disinterest in the subject matter that's the problem.
My bet is that they thought - gee, this looks like a hard problem. I bet that no one has thought about it before, so instead of me investing the effort to understand it, I'll just have AI solve it for me.
@drewdevault There is something about software licensing that draws the kind of people who because they understand one complex issue (software programming) think they understand _every_ complex issue.
@aral Watching Facebook vs Fediverse is like watching a teen slasher film, where the protagonists _know_ who the killer is and they still invite him in the house because he hasn't killed any of them yet.
And you're just standing there, yelling at the screen, because you saw them watching him murder everyone else in the neighborhood.
Computers boot directly into the browser. IDEs are just a web app now, running in the GPU. No one knows why. Or how.
All programs run in 4 nested containers on top of a hypervisor abstracting over the 5 major computational clouds. The last time a branch was predicted correctly, in any CPU anywhere, was 4 years ago.
Cloud costs are withdrawn directly from your retirement fund.
Ext7 just came out, it's written in Javascript and uses AI to guess what the file may contain.
I find it hilarious that the ToS update from #Zoom is assumed to be about training AI but it just as well could be about owning all of your stuff that goes through their service.
Mocking Google for their totally-not-an-attempt-to-DRM-the-Web is the right thing to do.
Open issues on the proposal repo and let them know what you think.
Politely.
But, don't be fooled. Even if they take this back, it doesn't change how they think. This is their intention. They just failed to slip it by this time.
The answer is to take power away from Google. Stop using their stuff. Build alternatives. It's not easy, but it's the only way.
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