Yes Trump is very rapidly turning America into a mirror of China.

That's not really Microsoft's business.

They sell picks and shovels. If they just stole someone's mine everyone would stop buying their picks and shovels.

I think all the things that we accused China of doing was more or less an admission that we where just jealous that we couldn’t do that.

For AI it's even worse, like with the Chinese open weight models it's easier to get zero data-retention agreements than with the closed US models.

If your idea is so easy to execute that the only reason other people haven't done it before you is because they haven't thought of it, it's not a great business plan.

Also vibe coding can, almost by definition, only produce code that is similar to code Microsoft already owns, plus given the copyright rules and obvious philosophical questions surrounding generative AI, it could easily be argued that stealing your idea and building it better than you could is what Microsoft has done when you type your idea into Copilot and it builds an app for you.

Also if AI is so good, why pay for the tax preparer at all? Just let AI do it.

To be fair, I did at one point reconciliate a few issues in my general ledger using claude code. Gave it all the ledger entries for the period and the other data that would be necessary. Showed me exactly where the issue was and gave me an entry to make to correct it after the fact without going back and editing past data which could get messy. Still wouldn't trust it with my taxes though, that was just to get the end of year account balance to where I already knew it would have to be. Highly unlikely I'd end up being audited for accidentally showing 300 euros more profit than I actually made that year

GenAI would likely be very supportive of your idea

That'd go great with my puffed clams breakfast cereal! Working slogan "Whole puffed clams in the shell. No bullshit, but some clamshit!"

Smart Sharon, but Poor Towelie. I never thought I could feel bad for a fictional towel until that episode.

These are just chili cheese fries you eat with a fork right?

Honeyblow

Yea most ideas have already been had. But just in case, the creativity stealing machine is here to "help" on the off chance you have an original good idea that it can steal.

Local models are even more dogshit than the remote ones.

Ah yes, the fully local, offline confirmation bias machine, which is orders of magnitude less complex than the commercial one. That will really help you flesh out your ideas.

Yeah I'm very surprised all of these giant companies are using Claude and open ai and giving it access to all of their code and proprietary info. But I had to sign an NDA to work there lol

Well, they gotta make money on something, because that sure aren't makin' it on AI...

You're not wrong, but it's really American-software companies. Google would not allow a non-American business to be listed on Google maps without providing restricted-data that included: a) a video demonstrating how to access the business, b) passwords for logins to the software they used, c) & codes to physical safes that resided at the business's location. Ostensibly this was to prove that the entity requesting a business addition to Google maps was the proprietor. They refused. I mean, it is the sort of information a thief would want.

I have to state that the above was told to me by the store manager and even I felt it could not be true, but I could not discern a reason why they'd lie about this particular thing whilst I could see why Google would want such information. It would help with credibility: that the individual really did have a link to the business in question, but then if Google used that information to verify it was correct they're hacking other businesses to do so.

It also has to be mentioned that Google (and any major American-software company) embeds itself into the United State's surveillance operations and apparatuses.

If anyone has more information about how businesses register on Google maps I'd be interested in reading. I'm specifically interested in foreign businesses outside America, not domestic American listings inside America.

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Remember ChatGPT by default will train on whatever you tell it

One one hand yes, on the other hand copyright and trademark can absolutely be used to stop you if a company is convinced there's money to be made.

I feel like advertising companies have realized that one day they will be able to get away with literal genocide IF and ONLY IF it makes them a profit . And I mean like actual genocide.......Like the Bosnian Genocide ...and like whats happening in Palesrine right now. Hecl, there are companies in dubai that are making a killing by slaughtering Sudanese people and the uae government aint doing shit but turning a blind eye.... If by you telling these companies your secrets or your idea for a machine makes it easier for them to kill you and your family AND for them to make a profit? I actially see the government of MANY regions allowing them to do all those things .... eventually ...

Thats what makes them sinister in my opinion. Im not expert oof course.... but....

Yes, still being shown on YouTube