Github got in trouble about this with early Copilot models spitting out GPL code verbatim. The argument I keep hearing (matching Anthropic's copyright lawsuit rulings) is that training is like humans looking/reading so source copyright doesn't matter.
It feels like such a cop-out.
At that point, it's worth looking for an actual CPA who has a license on the line if they do something wrong. Those "tax professionals" still put all of the liability on you.
Unfortunately, CPAs vary wildly in price depending on who and where they are … easily spread between $200 and $1000+.
That said … it's mostly about cutting down on the number of places that actually have your real number in case they get hacked or a shady employee steals it.
Good luck tracking down where it leaked from. And definitely work with your bank to get a new card/number … so much added hassle.
It's also great to use to create single-use cards for anywhere that might try to convert into a subscription, or set up spending limits so subscriptions get blocked if they raise rates without you noticing.
I highly recommend using a virtual card service to sit in between stores and your bank account. Free tier limits the number of cards to create per month but you can slowly replace your debit card with online vendors like Uber and set individual limits.
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This International Women's Day, please remember that trans women are women. Full stop. No qualifiers.
I hate the change but would definitely prefer that the House get around to actually passing the law and making the change permanent. Then we'd match BC, too.
"Kamala ran a PERFECT campaign!"
My sibling in Christ, she spent a million dollars putting her face on the Vegas sphere.
I like the "no bigotry/ableism/etc" clause, too.
How far they've fallen since that article came out … in 2015.
My packet of center cut seeds was 40 instead of 50. I emailed them about it and they sent me another packet … with 60 seeds. I only have room for 5 or so vines so I think I'll be good for a few more years (and lots to give away).
Thanks for the reminder to plant some of those purple/green peas now.
Hospitals are still trained based on 1970s era insulin practices. Regular cops kill/harm diabetics often enough by not believing we need insulin. This woman was literally tortured by ICE and it's amazing that she survived … but you just know others weren't so lucky.
A friend recommended plastic screws to me a couple years ago. Most of the stuff I make works fine with regular m3 screwed straight into the plastic but it's nice to have those bigger threads when you need more grip, and they often work better than embedded nuts for smaller m2 stuff. US source:
The issue also isn't the size of the "creative work" but that the existence of any small unattributed portion of uncopyrightable code leaves an opening for an argument to a non-technical jury that any/all code added after LLMs started being used is potentially unable to be protected by copyright.
Screenshot of my profile page with the ellipses on the top right and a blue dot on the top right corner of that
Ok if you want to make this fucking dot go away you have to enter this menu and then physically click Go Live even if you don’t currently intend to and never fucking intend to Go Live
Anyway, like I said … I'm not a lawyer but all of this just smells wrong and it's weird the lawyers don't seem to care.
P.S. Look up how small some of the individual code samples were in Google vs Oracle and how long it took Google to win (they also won on fair use not lack of copyright).
You're right … review should have no impact on copyright (but that seems to be the justification corporate lawyers use to allow AI-generated code to "pass muster").
And who said anything about this being limited to small inclusions. Have you missed all of the "my entire app is vibe coded" stories?
Like I said, IANAL, but it looks like "modification" is fine so the difference would still come down to whether or not the original work would be subject to copyright.
My original point was more about lack of an audit trail that a human was involved beyond writing a prompt and approving the code.
As a guy with Nordic tattoos … knowing the amount of care good tattoo artists go to in order to not be party to any of those symbols (originals and coopted ones like the valknut), I have a hard time believing none of Platner's later tattoo artists ever commented on his Totenkopf.
As for the rest, it's more that "copyrightability" is the mechanism that allows someone to sue over copyright. E.g. someone stole/leaked a bunch of code from MS in 2005. Without copyright, there would have been no theft/infringement, and no means to make anyone else delete leaked copies.
There _is_ precedent for that, IIRC a comic/book where the judge determined that page layout by the human "author" of the AI-generated story/images counted as transformative enough to grant copyright.
Definitely a law problem, but source code (as opposed to emails and other documents businesses generate with AI) is better suited to actually create an audit trail that could differentiate AI-generated originals from human changes required to nudge the creation into a shape that can be copyrighted.
This is all pretty pedantic (though lawyers usually are, too) and I'm sure it'll eventually get resolved because there's just too much money involved in AI. But as it stands, companies are relying on a lot of hopium that no one digs too deeply before that happens.
Open source code _is_ owned by its devs.
Look up the history of Tivo+GPL for some info … without copyright, there is no way to enforce the "you must share this code" part of copyleft licenses. Less important with open licenses like MIT/BSD but still nice to enforce those that require attribution.
From what I understand, companies are relying on the hope that pull requests and "human review" count as "transformative" enough input to allow the code, etc. to be copyrighted but (IANAL) "human gave 👍" doesn't seem to meet previous copyright infringement precedent for "transformative."
Open source licenses, including "copyleft" ones like the GPL, rely on the copyright system to be enforceable. Even public domain items must have at some point been eligible for copyright. USPTO ruling that AI-generated content is "uncopyrightable" makes it fundamentally incompatible with both.
That's good. Would hate for some uncopyrightable code to get mixed in with your open source code and completely invalidate those licenses…
(Seriously, I have no idea how anyone snuck AI coding tools past corporate lawyers, let alone how they can be so enthusiastic about them.)
My wife was watching a preview and I said "another one?" … Apparently I'm just enough older than her to remember the one from the 1980s. I recall it being a pretty good movie, though I _was_ a kid when I saw it.
That's why I've always loved hoyas … besides having some of the coolest/weirdest flowers, most species have succulent-like leaves and are incredibly difficult to kill.
I had a rather large one of those in a pot that was broken (both pot and plant) by a cat. It's still recovering months later, in about a dozen pieces. Thankfully some of them are finally starting to show signs of happy growth/rooting.
