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Don't worry, like with every revolutionary technology before this, it takes 5-10 years for people to find new and creative ways to use it. It will be considered its own medium in many spaces (e.g. film is now different to theatre)

I'm a musician who has been releasing my work under CC0 / Public Domain for the last few years for these very reasons.

While I do agree in principal, it is important this is a consensual choice made by the artists themselves. That is the only way to have healthy cultural change.

At the moment, we have e.g. Suno's CEO, who has publicly stated "people never really liked making music in the first place" - this is the kind of detached and exploitative person that we are seeing trying to force copyright changes on the rest of us.

Yeah where I've been previously skeptical for using AI in creative ways, basically when these tools get to the point where you have a tight iteration loop, it enables a great creative flow.

You still need the technical proficiency to be able to make edits beyond that, but I think studios would be foolish to let go of their experts in the first place.

I once worked at a school where someone tried stealing our security cameras.

Unfortunately for them, they had both of their kids' names tattooed to their neck, which helped reduce the number of possible suspects.

Wild watching back that footage the next morning.

One thing I really like about Claude Code, Hermes, and other harnesses, is how much feedback they give about what they are doing. They take you along for the ride, which builds trust.

I tried OpenClaw for about 10 minutes, and the feedback I got (even using Claude under the hood) felt very "trust me bro, I've got this" - which made me trust it less.

I'm sure there's a way to get more verbose feedback? But I did feel too out of the loop to feel comfortable.

That wasn't that long ago was it..?

/looks longingly out the window, and catch my aging face in the reflection

I briefly worked as a Uni lecturer, and I completely agree.

Universities have made the mistake of competing with YouTube (video lectures), whereas what they can actually offer is direct access to domain experts.

I am skeptical that any other solution has much of a moat. So if the creators of this are after any feedback, I would offer that their best bet is to be competitive on User Experience, rather than underlying technology.

Totally. The combination of "we're taking your work to build your replacement and we can't stop" from Dario and Sam, to AI being non-consentually shoved into every app surface by Microsoft and Google - I was anti-AI for a long time.

What changed it? Actually spending a weekend with Claude Code building personal projects I had wanted to for the last 2 years, which also makes it obvious that we can solve sustainability issues using this tech.

Also seeing the open models reach the frontier and knowing the above ass-hats aren't going to end up with a monopoly helps a lot too.

Very unclear what the value proposition is, when there are already other great open harnesses evolving at increasing speeds.

There is a lot of conflicting information out there, partly because the resources / environmental consequences of the current rollouts are incredibly multi-dimensional, and most articles only focus on a subset of them - and there seems to be rapid innovation happening in some of the infrastructure that can void an article from a year ago.

The "panic" is also largely connected to a strong communal feeling (for legitimate reasons) that democratic processes are being skipped for big money and backroom deals.

I suspect - like with a lot of AI issues - if the companies building these took more time to have proper conversation with the impacted parties, there wouldn't be nearly the same backlash.

"Humanities" is literally on the list. As in, do not fund any Humanities research.

Also not allowed to use "solar energy", "Geothermal energy", "EV infrastructure", "electrification", "Hydrogen energy".

Welp, America, you either gotta kick this administration out, or enjoy cosplaying the 1800s.

Yeap, all Oauth sessions got kicked and can't get back in. Welp, switching to Deepseek V4 Flash 0731 via OpenRouter.

Stoked that AI is in a place we have legitimate options available!

Yeap, all Oauth sessions got kicked and can't get back in. Welp, switching to Deepseek V4 Flash 0731 via OpenRouter.

Stoked that AI is in a place we have legitimate options available!

As a hobby coder, not a professional programmer, I have recently found one of the biggest advantages is being able to very quickly prototype ideas in HTML/CSS/JS and iterate on the UI/UX upfront. This way I get "tangible" feedback and can get a better feel of whether an idea is worth pursuing before investing big time on proper implementation.

Just wondering if the professional programmers here are finding the same thing? Or different?

I am not a fan of OpenAI, but I believe the long-view for many AI companies is that AI will replace the phone and all of its functions, essentially being voice activated, summarizing version.

Though this doesn't work in public settings, so I am also not totally sure what the long-view is..

Love that AI companies are now naming their models like Pokemon games

Also just a shout out to the author - you're getting a lot of flak here, but your article hit me at the right time in the right way. I trust you're telling the truth about writing it yourself, and thank you.

I'm not disagreeing with you at all, but I have personally found most philosophy "classics" painfully hard to get into. That doesn't mean they shouldn't be respected, but the truth is that sections of society (like myself) do rely on the people specializing in philosophy parsing it into current language and metaphor.

We have the Power of gods. Now we need the Wisdom of gods.

For countries outside the EU, Claude was turned on by default as a subprocessor. It appears that choosing Claude may be sending your prompts outside the M365 tenancy to Anthropic in the US.

Here's the tricky part: It is not clear from any of Microsoft's documentation whether leaving chats on "Auto" may be funneling to the Claude subprocessor when it chooses to.

Does this mean that non-US Microsoft business environments may have started sending user prompts to Anthropic in the US by default?

There seem to be people working at OpenAI and Anthropic who are surprised to hear that many people don't trust them.

If this is you, I would recommend talking to people outside of the AI industry - we've seen OpenAI and Anthropic continuously lying, abusing lobbying, training on pirated IP, trying to scare politicians into blocking actually open AI from abroad, etc etc

Why the hell would we trust these companies to be impartial regulators now?

I suppose I have personally lost faith in centralized institutions that would be implementing said regulation, partly because they let OpenAI and Anthropic (along with Suno, Audio, etc etc) get this far uninhibited. Centralized regulation simply can't keep up.

My hopes now lay with a decentralized approach of open models, trusting people to adapt them to local needs and security, rather than a nationwide paternalism.

It really comes down to this: Sam and Dario are leading companies that who made the reckless decision to train on everyone's IP without proper process or consent. It has been proven they trained on pirated content. There is no question about this.

Then, as soon as there are open models who threaten their businesses, they cry "distillation and IP theft".

It's the last 3 years of pure hypocrisy and fear-baiting for investment.

To be honest, I think people would now prefer the risk of misused open models, when the alternative is giving these guys more power.

While it's great to have alternatives, I suspect a lot us are really only interested in forkable open alternatives (like Matrix / Element), as most concerns about Discord are tied with it being a private company.

As far as I can tell, Echoed is also closed the same way Discord is?

What Dario misses time and time again, is that people don't trust the US to create aligned AI anymore. His entire strategy rests on the assumption that the US (and their government) are exceptional.

This is clearly false to the rest of the world.

Reminds me of the System of a Down - Legend of Zelda song that was popular around Limewire, etc

Years later it was uncovered that it was never System of a Down, but one Joe Pleiman

https://kotaku.com/no-system-of-a-down-did-not-make-a-zelda-...

AllenAI is also one to keep your eye on. Founded by Paul Allen of Microsoft, they are one of the best teams working towards truly transparent / open AI (including training data)

It's less of a bet against him. It's more of a bet for the future of humanity. And contrary to what Elon believes about himself, his work has been toxic for humanity for the last 5 years and is getting worse.

So Microsoft will support Israel in killing Palestinians, but pull the accounts of International Criminal Court Prosecutors? Jesus

Ethics commitments brushed away under pressure are just Marketing.