@V_ Thanks! Took a bit of brainstorming to settle on this one but I like it.
@mbkriegh Currently I'm only selling it directly here as a PDF and EPUB bundle illusion.baldurbjarnason.com
I plan on making it available on the Kindle once I manage to wrap up some of my current projects, but I don't exactly know when.
@martinfeld Thanks! Much appreciated. 🙂
@jack I think you at the very least need to be able to set up files at an arbitrary URL. So, it depends, I guess?
@Denny That’s useful. Thanks!
@Denny It’s the downgrade of the sharing widget that affects me the most
@baldur And when you have a hardware keyboard, the character count is all but invisible 🙁
@JoeHoffman Yeah, the deterioration of our software ecosystem is an ongoing bugbear of mine.
@chriskrycho It really is. Shows you what sort of attitudes dominate at Microsoft.
@odd It is, isn’t it?
@vincent It’ll be all “make this AI output passable” churn and the notion that companies cared about making their workers more productive will turn out to be a fantasy.
But, I have been accused of pessimism in the past 🙂
@vincent Yeah, I honestly think it’s more likely that AI will be used to replace services, goods, and media with degraded versions of themselves that have a marginally higher profit margin, and that the productivity angle will slowly fade away.
@vincent Glad you find the links useful!
@bkryer Ah, yeah. Hitchen’s Razor is a really good one. Thanks for the pointer. 🙂
@bkryer hah! 😄
@fgtech Yeah, if there isn’t some sharing then the social contract for publishing creative works online is broken. And that could have far-reaching consequences that won’t benefit anybody.
@gregmoore I love two-column approaches like this. Great use of layout. And yeah, generative AI is all about outcomes without understanding
@fgtech Not sure they’ve thought further ahead than “the singularity will solve everything” 😝
@petebrown That’s a good point. Definitely might have something to do with it.
@odd Doesn't look like it. They don't mention copyright or trademarks at all. Seems to be mostly fraud, consumer protection, and discrimination stuff that they're investigating. Must mean there's a lot of AI grift, fraud, and nonsense going on for them make a statement like this.
@fgtech Does robots.txt let you block by use case? Otherwise you’d have to preemptively block a potentially infinite list of user agents
Also inclusion in an ML training data set should be opt-in, especially if the download utility in question wants to comply with the GDPR.
@fgtech The problem is that having your site indexed by a search engine and having it pulled by a dozen outfits a day collecting training data for their ML models are qualitatively different things, but are both affected by robots.txt.
@lmika Yeah. Indeed. 🫤
@fgtech Yeah, agree with you completely.
@odd That’s quite different from a random newspaper using it to create an outright fake interview without permission.