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I'm actually surprised to see this blog post coming from Discord. This was actually a good read.

* in the US.

You can't finance a massive project like that with donations. This isn't like Signal or some small project like that. Firefox is MASSIVE.

Breaking news. Learned something new today.

They are investing a lot in their core product. Problem is that you can't really monatize it. You want Firefox to be paywalled?

A desperate attempt of revenue diversification.

Dude Lemmy feels so much more alive. On Reddit I have like 100 comments and 0 Karma and 0 responses. No interaction at all. Every upvoted comment is just some random generic garbage farming for validation. Lemmy is SO much more live!

Reddit is full of Karma farmers.

I still use Reddit for the funny videos and nieche communities I don't get on Lemmy. But I have to constantly block accounts because they are blatantly farming. Super annoying.

I usually block every account that's reposting and has more than 100k Karma.

Anything new mentioned in this article?

I agree with your sentiment. But I think LLMs are different and something novel that we have never had before: LLMs do not directly encode any IP information directly. It's like our brain remembering a drawing but we don't actually own that drawing just because we remember what it looks like. So even if they use pirated data to train the LLM, the result is merely a derivative. Since they don't redistribute the pirated material, they might get fined for "leeching" here but not for "seeding", if you understand my anology.

IP in general is very important. It's the fundamental cornerstone of our society. Without any IP, our society would collapse. But it has limits: You can trademark a brand or a product or a patent. But a drawing style? I find that questionable.

You cannot evade country-wide bans. Federation doesn't help. That's not how this works.