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Trying to legislate the world to go back to the way it was in 2023 probably isn’t going to work any better than DRM does.

Guess we’ll see, then. I suspect the result is going to be a bunch of websites going “huh? Where did all our traffic suddenly disappear to?”

Also Moonshot, Alibaba, Baidu. Can they also be reined in?

It doesn’t matter who invented DRM. My point is that DRM fundamentally doesn’t work. If you pubish a web page in a manner that allows humans to read it then it’s also readable by AIs. A pinkie-promise not to is the best you can get.

And they may also want a magical unicorn for a pet. Simply wanting a thing doesn’t conjure it into existence.

They want the same thing that people who want DRM want - a way to show their content to a viewer without that viewer being able to copy what they’re seeing. It’s just as impossible either way. As with DRM there may be tricks one can come up with to hinder it temporarily under some circumstances, but fundamentally data is data. If someone can see it then someone can copy it.

“We’ve been clear about what we want,” said Cloudflare chief strategy officer Stephanie Cohen. “We want a technical solution that allows you to be discoverable without having to give your content away for free.”

Sounds like they want DRM,

He said it was for a long-term power outage, not the literal apocalypse.

But even in the case of the literal apocalypse, with the grid permanently down, solar panels can last decades. I see no reason not to have something like this.

Unfortunately we live in a world where people often have the right to do things that we personally disapprove of.

Well, don’t use it then.

There are lots of non-proprietary AI models out there, some of them comparable in quality to ChatGPT. Wikipedia could run it themselves if they wanted, no “corpo involvement.”

They want to handle lots of prompts.

What about any of this remotely connects to “rewriting history and eliminating freedom of speech?”

That being said, it still wreaks of “CEO Speak.” And trying to find a place to shove AI in.

I don’t see how this is “shoved in.” Wales identified a situation where Wikipedia’s existing non-AI process doesn’t work well and then realized that adding AI assistance could improve it.

“Editors” are not a unified block. I would be fine with it, depending on how it’s used.

Whenever something on my computer tries to tell me I can’t do something with it.

I think ego is an underestimated source for a lot of the anti-AI rage. It’s like a sort of culture-wide narcissism, IMO. We’ve spent millennia patting ourselves on the back about how special and unique human creativity is, and now a commodity graphics card can come up with better ideas than most people.