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Factbook, not Facebook.

Does this indicate that they're training it on the users' words, and they don't want it to learn bad habits?

The article is from September 17th. Who knows what happens to this policy now. But it's still quite possible the USA will sanction other countries for buying Russian oil, because they want the oil for themselves.

That license suggests these people don't know what they're doing, or don't care. Maybe they think they're geographically out of reach of Adobe's lawyers. In any case, it's hardly striking a blow for open-source software when its provenance and legal status are so dubious. FOSS should be done honestly and with pride.

You could argue that "vibe coded" and "clean room reimplementation" are by nature incompatible with one another, since you can't prove the AI didn't ingest the original code. But you could also question whether the AI could possibly be trained on Adobe's code when Adobe keeps that under wraps. It could be trained on leaked code, but that would be hard to prove.

If they used decompilation as a guide for the AI, that might be easier to establish regardless of what the LLM was trained on. There could be telltale implementation details that Adobe could cite.

In any case, Adobe has a huge number of patents on its software, so I imagine there could be grounds for legal action just because these applications faithfully copy the look and feel and functionality of Adobe products. That might be easier for them to prove in court than anything about the code's provenance.

You don't use these in your code? // 💙

Why do you say that? The news stories don't specify. The Guardian says he was well connected in Russia and China, though it's a bit odd how they just throw that in.

Some people are smart enough to be a lawyer yet still really fucking stupid.

How like your wife does she need to be?

And I, too, am embarrassed on behalf of the tech industry — by our collective failure.

It's not usually failure though: it's success in something that's deliberately hostile, abusive and exploitative towards users. Failure world be to try to serve the user and get it wrong. But modern tech is designed to serve capital, not users, and on those terms it is succeeding.

Pelkey's sister, Stacey Wales, told the BBC last year the family had used voice recordings, videos and pictures to recreate him for the AI video.

"To Gabriel Horcasitas, the man who shot me, it is a shame we encountered each other that day in those circumstances," said the AI version of Pelkey in court in 2025. "In another life, we probably could have been friends."

"I believe in forgiveness, and a God who forgives. I always have and I still do," the AI version of Pelkey - wearing a grey baseball cap - continued.

What a weird thing to do.

Should it technically be called WSG and not WSL?