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ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

the takeaway people should have is that all the megacorps have always reserved the right to plagiarize any research you use them for. it's always been super fucking shitty and none of us should ever have accepted it.

only two things have changed.

1. LLMs make it feasible for megacorps to actually find the stuff worth stealing
2. companies whose focus is LLMs are desperate for good PR, which makes stealing attractive

ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

again, we're not a lawyer. we have not sought legal advice on the OpenAI ToU. we have worked alongside lawyers on enforcement of contractual provisions almost exactly like this, and on that basis we're in a position to attest that it really says that.

ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

we'll be blunt: "improve our Services" means they can train their model on your stuff.

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MeiLin@tech.lgbt ("Mei Lin :v_ace: :v_gqueer: :xenia_blahaj: :tux: :arch:") wrote:

@soatok
A few years ago, Eurofurance happened at the same time as an IT conference. Both happened in the same conference center.

Jokes went around that the people at the IT conference used it to get their workplace to pay for going to EF.

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mathias@rhizospherelabs.com wrote:

Who else on fedi is working on #robotics either professionally or as a hobby interest? I follow a few folks but would love to find more.

#robots #makers

ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

Our use of content. We may use Content to provide, maintain, develop, and improve our Services, comply with applicable law, enforce our terms and policies, and keep our Services safe.

from https://openai.com/policies/row-terms-of-use/ retrieved 2026-09-08 14:04 UTC-7

ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

we just went and checked a detail in OpenAI's terms of use, because we want to be able to say for sure that it's what we think. as context on this, we're not a lawyer but we're a privacy expert and are highly familiar with the enforcement of clauses in the form we're about to show. every major online service has one like this, and it's always been a very serious problem.

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edboythinks@beige.party ("Socko :bc:") wrote:

the older i get, the heller the no

cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

OpenAI: Here's a presentation about how we committed felonies against a competitor. We are bragging about it. You should give us money

*Weeks pass*

*New controversy where OpenAI is accused of doing something nefarious and snooping on data they already had access to*

HN commenters: What are you implying? OpenAI wouldn't commit crimes. This is unfounded. They are above this

ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

context https://cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/statement.pdf

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

sadly our graphic design wasn't as good back when you could get it on a floppy

ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

so the math plagiarism thing casts doubt on all the other "discoveries" these things have supposedly made, yeah?

at least, that's our takeaway...

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

anybody remember ordering Twisted on CD-ROM

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Would you like to be able to install just the bits of Twisted that you like? Maybe you want to use Deferred for better async testability but you don't feel the need for a whole DNS server just for that? Well, good news, I have an excellent volunteer opportunity for you:

https://github.com/twisted/twisted/issues/12842

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

at least in WSL

oh right yeah, for that OS that's so good now they convinced people it's easier to run linux on the desktop than use it.

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davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

Students who don’t use AI are ahead on every measure

‘equivalent to being around one year of schooling ahead of their peers’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcRY6M5%5Fmvo&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260908-students-who-dont-use-ai-are-ahead-on-every-measure - podcast

time: 4 min 14 sec

cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

Posting hole

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aud@spectre.asta.lgbt (":: Asta :: [New Server]") wrote:

look, Sam Altman's new headshot just dropped

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
suricrasia@lethargic.talkative.fish ("blackle mori") wrote:

I gotta be real, there is no economic benefit to this magical horny milk that makes you lactate. you have to drink way more milk than you end up producing. it's a net negative

cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

Oh, OpenAI has responded now:

> On Tuesday, September 1, we heard rumors that two Millennium Prize problems had been resolved. Inspired by these rumors and by the step change in performance of our internal model, we launched an effort to evaluate it on all open Millennium Prize problems and a few other high-impact problems.

https://openai.com/index/navier-stokes-solution/

"heard rumors" 🤔

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nightjar@twoot.site wrote:

@EveOfTheFuture @cwebber Link's Hole Training

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aparrish@friend.camp ("allison") wrote:

@cwebber Ocarina Holes is my roller derby name

firepoet@tech.lgbt ("Stephen 🌈 (he/him)") wrote:

Now that I know that the mastodon project accepts LLM contributions I will be migrating away from servers that run on mastodon. More to come soon as I figure out where to host my activitypub presence!

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jalefkowit@hachyderm.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

Totally normal guy

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/sep/08/elon-musk-ashley-st-clair-documentary-venice

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place wrote:

@cwebber ok i'll hand them that, they did a decent job with the holes on that ocarina

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annika@xoxo.zone ("Annika Backstrom") wrote:

@cwebber they know what the people want

cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

The holes on the Ocarina have never looked this good before

Boosted by ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)"):
aud@spectre.asta.lgbt (":: Asta :: [New Server]") wrote:

anyway if your software development tool will notably increase cancer rates and air pollution I think you should stop using it.

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
FediThing@chinwag.org ("FediThing :progress_pride:") wrote:

RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/117236126658335889

OpenAI talking like gangsters while threatening an academic's career if he doesn't play along with their lies.

Boosted by ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)"):
Edmonds_Scanner@universeodon.com wrote:

Remember.
The only way to become a terrifying legend of the old forest is to wander into the old forest and do terrifying and legendary things.