AI in its current form is a commercial product created from stolen labor.
I think there are extremely legitimate reasons to be critical of that part at the very least, and I don't think it's a particularly "radical" stance within Free Software, which is fundamentally conscientious of such questions.
(I don't know whether the Libreboot authors have this particular point in mind.)
Has anyone who contributed to producing the wealth of human knowledge, art, code, and literature making up the training data been compensated in any way?
That already didn't happen, regardless of AI. The thing about freely sharing knowledge is that people take that knowledge and use it to build further knowledge that helps you.
You might say that the fact LLMs are being provided as services by big techs invalidate that. But some people taking the provided knowledge for themselves has also always happened. More importantly, though, is that big tech provided LLMs aren't the only way to access the technology. Open weights and local models exist.
If you believe that, then why aren't LLMs free to use for every person on Earth?
If you want anybody to keep making anything, including programmers, artists, and writers, you're going to have to pay them somehow.
Anthropic and OpenAI would not have a product at all without the contributions of thousands of non-consenting humans. Yet they somehow have the gall to charge customers a premium.
They refuse to release the models, the training method and, training data. They don't even want you to ask it too many questions lest you teach another ai. Very "open".
One thing is that most if not all models more likely than not were trained on leaked Microsoft and other proprietary code sets.
For projects like WINE or ReactOS that absolutely have to enforce hard firewalls between people with "insider knowledge" to avoid contamination and resulting legal issues, this alone makes the use of AI for coding highly problematic.
They are the same pitch in well-tempered tuning, but that’s a small part of the picture. They are not even the same pitch if you’re singing or playing a fretless instrument, like a violin.
The reason is that the pitch changes slightly based on harmonic context, and the notation communicates the context.
G# typically conveys a tension in an ascending movement (assuming the key is Am or one of its neighbors). Ab can convey tension in a descending movement.
I'm willing to bet at least 20 DKK that a significant percentage of Danish boomers use their CPR number as their password for the digital two-factor authentication system MitID.
They do so because they don't want to forget their password.
With a few exceptions, the usefulness of the number is also just quite limited already. It's a unique identifying number, not a secret password. The problem is that it used to be considered quite secret, and you could do things like take up a loan over the phone using just your name and CPR number - which obviously got abused by scammers.
This leak is bad because there are still places and people who don't understand that producing a valid CPR number is not proof of anything.
What does the age of the style have to do with anything? You can ask them to write like Dickens or the King James bible or in Caesar's Latin, too, and these are even older.
In fairness, some of those older styles could alienate a reader, whereas mid-20th century style is practically like our own. To emphasize, this is narrowly about applying the style from an era, not the English from an era.
That’s because you’ve been brainwashed by capitalism. The alternative getting less attention might have fewer resources, but there is nothing to “win” here.
Getting “funded” is to get a job maintaining the project. Great! This happens to incredibly few, high-profile projects. Those people wouldn’t be working on the alternative if they didn’t get paid to work on the one they care about.
It’s not compiling C code, so that’s not really possible to answer. C is uniquely fast to compile, especially compared with more featureful languages like C++ and Rust.
In practice, C++ and Rust feel pretty similar, mostly due to the kind of code people tend to write in both languages (favoring static dispatch, generics/templates, etc.).
I think there are extremely legitimate reasons to be critical of that part at the very least, and I don't think it's a particularly "radical" stance within Free Software, which is fundamentally conscientious of such questions.
(I don't know whether the Libreboot authors have this particular point in mind.)
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