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Glyph

Until there is a definitive adjudication of the copyright status of LLM training data, it is *deeply irresponsible* to use Github Copilot for open source. I will refuse contributions created with it on any project I'm involved with, as well as permanently ban any user caught sneaking in Copilot-generated code in defiance of this rule. I would strongly encourage all maintainers to take this stand as well. License headaches are already bad enough without secret poison pills being injected.

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Chris Johnson

@glyph Thank you for taking the correct moral stand. While as far as I know, virtually zero people use my open source projects, I will implement a similar policy.

Jet Balsa

@glyph I want to see the fall out of it from the closed source world as well, What happens when half your game is pieces of copilot code?!

Marcin 🍔:pocket:

@glyph Makes sense. Our lawyers told us to stay away from LLM generated code as well.

Glyph

Today I discovered this: mastodon.cloud/@stacksmith

I don't see any commits on the main branch since March of 2020 (😬) but it is amazing that someone has put this much effort into a recreation that is both faithful (it has a literal hypercard stack importer) and modern (it doesn't visually look like a retrocomputing exercise).

TTimo

@glyph this is pretty awesome. Is there something that fills that niche right now? For all the "nocode" stuff I've heard about I don't think I've seen anything very compelling.

Scott Small

@glyph @feoh This is written by @uliwitness who is very active here on Mastodon!

Uli Kusterer (Not a kitten)

@glyph I basically did a rewrite, which is in a different repository, but still very much working on it.

Glyph

Every article about AI this week is like "Today, there's not yet a human who has eaten hot wings so hot that they spontaneously burst into flame. But, as we develop hotter and hotter sauces, we must confront the fact that one day — and that day may come very soon — one of the guests on Hot Ones will become The Inhuman Torch from Marvel Comics and annihilate the eastern seaboard in an all-consuming flame. We must prepare for that inevitable future."

Glyph

An intern at MIRI furiously scribbles equations on a blackboard, slowly at first, then faster and faster. He steps back, trembling, hand over his mouth, eyes wide. He runs down the hall, in to his superior's office, voice quavering, and says "Sir… sir, I think we may have made a mistake. I think that… I think…" — he puts a hand on a nearby wall to steady himself, then looks straight ahead — "I think that 'thought experiments' might not actually be experiments"

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