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And Michael Scott declares bankruptcy. Newsworthy?

Block domain, report spam. It’s a tiny yet satisfying action each day.

I don’t use YouTube at all but I can still answer - Because $16 will become $20, $30, $50 … and then they will begin to show ads again anyway.

I don't get this commonplace logic. Why make the decision on the possible distant future? You can always just cancel when that happens.

The moment the cost went from free to more-than-free is “when that happened.” I’m not willing to participate.

You expect Google to serve thousands of petabytes per month (costing hundreds of thousands of dollars in raw bandwidth) for absolutely nothing in return?

I have zero expectations of any business. If they have an expectation to be paid then they need to offer something of value. Their costs to operate are not my concern.

If they're not offering something of value why are you using the thing that you say doesn't have value?

I don’t. Please see original comment.

Do you think it's that low? I would have assumed 7 figures in bandwidth.

> I’m not willing to participate

Nah, you're participating by watching. You'd have 100% of my respect and 100% moral high ground with your stance just by avoiding youtube.com.


Your assumption I’m watching is invalid.

You won't pay for something because of inflation? How do you survive, since everything's affected by inflation? Ever buy gasoline for a car or a transit pass? rent? food? What else can't you pay for because they price will go up in the future?

Inflation helped me kick my junk food and fast food habits. I still buy groceries of course but when prices rise, luxuries are almost always the first items to go.

Corporate greed ≠ inflation

Is this a typo? 20 min ad?! I don’t use YouTube.

Sometimes they put one at the start then again 1.5 min into a video and again around 4 minutes. If I don't skip them I may not even remember what the video was about.

I’ve seen the intro to an audiobook be used as an ad.

Reddit may be the most manipulated social media there is.

Yep, it's mostly bots, shills, and children and it's nothing new.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jaymcgregor/2017/02/20/reddit-i...


Well, open it…

> If your entire product is LLM generated you sure as hell have no right to place any license on there

Something you’ve created from nothing because of the tool you’ve used to create it should not be allowed to be licensed?


By that very definition you did not create it.

Yes it’s the same as using a stock drum pattern in a drum machine, it is not copyrightable because no human was involved in any part of it.

If you have an idea and want rights to it then do it the old fashion way and pay a developer to do a commissioned work and you can have your copyright, heres the catch, that will cost a hell of a lot more than 100usd a month


And when that developer copies and pastes useful code snippets from the internet into this product you’ve commissioned them to create? Also not copyrightable?

If you allowed that in your contract when doing the commissioning that's on you.

I wouldn't be surprised that if you asked an AI to weite said contract it would add a clause regarding copyright ownership of all codr and will put the onus on the developer to prove ownership of all of it.

Effectively you could sue them if you ever get sued.

When it comes to copyright and licensing it's complicated and it's best to write the code by hand.


Do you imagine China may one day claim they own all the rights to all the objects labeled with “Made in China” on them? Could Anthropic possibly do this?

I would say the answer is "obviously not," to the degree that it's hard totake your question in good faith.

The China-made goods have been sold. Ownership transfers at sale. It would be ludicrous for some Chinese agency to say, "Well, we made it, so even though you bought it from us, it's actually still ours. Surprise!"


It’s just a question meant for discussion. It’s already been decided AI generated art can not be copyrighted. Curious about the future of AI generated software, code, etc… and what having an Anthropic watermark on it will mean at that time.

The difference is that US SaaS has the pattern of not seeing sales as ownership transfer, they are in the rental model and cut off access if you stop paying

People cared. Anyone who did and could do so turned it off immediately as with every service that appends any of that nonsense.

> Anyone who did and could do so turned it off immediately

I know I’m not alone as someone who’s bothered by the postscript, but too lazy to do anything but delete it every time. There’s even an entire (well part of) song about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbdeVhPAbms


Out of curiosity, do these Claude commit messages fall into the same category of "it's annoying but not worth the effort to turn it off"? If yes/no, why?

Odd move on Twitter’s part. This will only hasten their demise. It’s like a restaurant that isn’t getting enough customers raising their prices to make more money.


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