Like many authors, all of my books were stolen by Meta. Honestly, book piracy never really bothered me all that much--if someone really wanted to learn Python, why not learn it from me? That's cool. Come by and say "hi" to me at a conference maybe. Having my hard efforts anonymized and regurgitated by some LLM? Not cool.
I sometimes think about updating my book, but then I see the royalty statement and realize I'd do better working one weekend a month serving fast food. Shrug.
@dabeaz Just wait until you are old and lonely… Over a business conference dinner earlier this week we were breathlessly told about how AI bots could make daily phone calls to lonely pensioners to keep them company. I must have been one of the only people womdering how talking to a machine is going to help someone feel less cut-off from people.
Fuck the future.
@simon @dabeaz > we were breathlessly told about how AI bots could make daily phone calls to lonely pensioners
It already happening - but for scams - no one care about "person" - money is only value - there insane scale of "Ai generated scams" happening.
But AI future is:
- AI-girlfriend
- AI-kids
(yes its real - especially for Europe population - they already normalizing AI-kids while saying typical - "real kids are too expensive")
(and AI-girlfriend will be insanely huge trend)
@dabeaz Book piracy is coo--wait, not like THAT! [1]
[1] https://www.citationneeded.news/free-and-open-access-in-the-age-of-generative-ai/
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