Those issues existed well before LLMs. Everyone who reads needs a BS detector. It's unfortunate, though, that many such detectors have been replaced with AI detectors.

Part of the problem is that there’s far more BS now.

That's true. I don't know how to solve it, other than booking a long vacation until https://xkcd.com/810/.

If you build a device that can help build devices, you shouldn't be too surprised when people use it to build devices.

This is a popular misreading of the state of the law.

Someone tried, as a bit of a stunt, to register a work for copyright with generative AI as the sole creator/author. That registration was rejected. This is quite different from a person using generative AI as a tool to create a work.

People have copyright in photos and videos they create, even if they used a camera. Same with images and code, even if they used an LLM.

I'm not your lawyer, but to the extent you have copyright in works you create, the fact that you used a tool doesn't diminish the copyright.

This isn't quite true: https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/LSB10922

The clearest part from the page:

> Before the proliferation of generative AI, U.S. courts did not extend copyright protection to various nonhuman authors, holding that a monkey who took photos of himself lacked standing to sue under the Copyright Act; that human authorship was required to copyright a book purportedly inspired by celestial beings; and that a living garden could not be copyrighted. The U.S. Copyright Office has also long maintained that copyrighted works must be "created by a human being" and therefore refused to register works that are "produced by a machine or mere mechanical process that operates randomly or automatically without any creative input or intervention from a human author."

I think the long story short is if you're incorporting LLM generated content into your own work, then your own work is copyrighted but if it's purely AI created and you never put any of your own work into it, it's not (so: think the slop cannons people are pointing at social media for example -- probably not copyrighted (although I don't know why you'd want to put your name on it anyway)). Granted, I don't know how you'd ever prove that something was purely LLM generated so it's kind of a technicality for coding, but for image and music I think it applies pretty clearly.

As an aside, I think socially maintaining that copyrights are for humans only is extremely important. It might be the most important legal matter around this. I see nothing good of allowing AI labs that have strip-mined the internet to claim a copyright on the things they regurgitate, and I don't think spammers deserve copyright protection either. The human-only requirement is a very good one.

Right, but the AI isn’t the one who would actually claim copyright here. It would be the human using AI to accelerate the coding. And the human does have standing.

So if I write one line of code in a 1M line LLM codebase, is it mine?

It’s owned by whoever directed the AI to write it.

Ten thousand books in an 80-year lifetime would mean finishing one book every three days. That's aggressive, but entirely achievable.

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Then today's your lucky day! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48829312

It's a paraphrasing of the popular 2024 Joanna Maciejewska quote: "I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes."

Sometimes it's fun to mod something that other people can also easily buy and follow your mod recipe. It's more of a network effect than publishing Gerbers and a BOM.

For example, there are (or maybe were) lots of cheap LED controllers that use proprietary phone apps, but if you crack them open, you find that they're ESP-8266-based, and if you can find the right locations on the PCB, you can reflash them with WLED.

Probably a good way to become a millionaire, in the Branson sense of the word.

By the way, if you haven't tried 滷肉飯 (lǔròu fàn, or braised pork with rice), you should. You can't walk more than a block in Taipei without finding it, but I've seen it only once in the US.

You will find restaurants with it in LA, SF, and NY for sure. In SF there is an award winning restaurant named Lu Rou Fan, which should give you an idea of the food they serve.

I imagine any region with a large Taiwanese or Chinese population will have a restaurant that serves it (or the chinese version gai fan).

You need to come to NYC. They are quite common.