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Signal is the No. 1 downloaded app in the Netherlands. But why? (techcrunch.com)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Don't let perfect be the enemy of good. Getting people off of proprietary stuff is the first step. Whatever else is the next step.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Why are you licensing your comment?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

https://lemmy.world/comment/9850401

https://lemmy.world/comment/9805932

[+] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Hmm, did you read the links I posted?

Sure, what meta did is fucked up, but they are being sued. Just because someone ignores the law, does that mean that we should just stop doing something?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I should probably write a blog post about it. Basically it's there to possibly get commercial LLMs in trouble for scraping licensed stuff. LLMs have been tricked into revealing their training data and gotten in trouble for that. There are also ongoing lawsuits due to those revelations. Maybe the most notable is the one against ~~Github's~~ Microsoft's CoPilot for spitting out licensed (GPL and also copyrighted from private repos) code.

Whether the lawsuits will be successful or not is yet to be determined (Japan already considers nearly everything fair game for training AIs and machine learning). Whether they will have an impact if they are successful is also unknown. It just costs me a key-stroke (and the occasional response to a friendly question like yours), so I do it 🤷 Once all my hope is lost, I might stop.

From another answer. I highlighted the important part, which explains why the explicit link to the license text instead of it being implicit.

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