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I’m totally with you on this.

C is a fantastic language for people who want to develop for existing C projects. But there are very few reasons to develop new software projects in C today. As such, for anyone learning C, the best first project would probably be whatever existing C project you want to work on.

Maybe the main exception to that is probably embedded systems stuff for microcontrollers and the like, but I don’t know enough about that space to say whether that is even still the case or whether you’d be better off with something else.

Oh, I’m “passionate” about AI, alright.

Some US States

None of the even remotely good ones. Why is Denmark trying to be Alabama, again?

Gotta give Denmark credit, they’re really going for the Shittiest Western European Country Award. Granted, I’m from the USA and we’re obviously an unmitigated disaster, but like, what the fuck are you guys doing? Competing for attention?

Bad take for two reasons:

1. Being consistently funny requires intellect and general cleverness. You can’t be quick witted if you’re stupid.

2. More importantly we are all mostly ignorant. You could have a PhD in 3 topics and have spent years in higher education, and you still know only a tiny speck of all that there is to know.

I’m not a fan of Jimmy Carr, especially after the Saudi shit, and I fucking hate AI. But the idea that we shouldn’t value the opinions of artists is pretty dumb. There are plenty of smart artists with interesting things to say and unique perspectives.

Yeah. I’m not sure why the AI clipart shit has to be everywhere these days. It’s all very low quality shit.

Well… I’d be curious to know how anyone would argue that AI generated code is GPL safe, especially considering they are often using black box, binary blob models trained on mystery code from all over the internet, with zero attribution or license information, and with some of it almost certainly being proprietary.

Are we going to start ignoring the very licenses that we created.

Having tried Cosmic, I’m not totally convinced it’s good enough to be ready for prime time, but that’s pretty subjective. Overall I think it’s good to have another DE in the scene and at the very least Cosmic is a good start.

Definitely not just a coincidence.

People are acting like this is a win for OpenAI and the AI industry, but I think this is potentially a major victory for IP holders like Disney.

Up until now, the core assumption from the industry around AI has been that it is all fair use, and thus no license (or even so much as basic consent) was needed to train on copyrighted works or produce output resembling specific trademarked IP.

Now Disney and OpenAI have come to an agreement that explicitly allows OpenAI to produce videos of their characters, but from what I can tell does not allow them to train on Disney’s works to do it.

This deal lasts only 3 years, and so what happens is they don’t renew it 3 years from now? What does it mean for the other AI companies that are producing Disney IP without this agreement? What about all the other character and person likenesses that Sora is producing without any such agreement?

Essentially, I think this has allowed Disney to put the ball back in their court. They are deciding who does and doesn’t use their characters. They have put value into the idea of licensing trademarks for AI use. And I think this sets a dangerous precedent for AI companies, because what does this mean for all of the IP holders who they aren’t in an agreement with?