Jeff AtwoodFeb 4
It's been a year, indeed. We've launched the second, longer term project to address systemic problems in this country. https://blog.codinghorror.com/launching-the-rural-guaranteed-minimum-income-initiative/
Launching The Rural Guaranteed Minimum Income Initiative

It's been a year since I invited Americans to join us in a pledge to Share the American Dream: 1. Support organizations you feel are effectively helping those most in need across America right now. 2. Within the next five years, also contribute public dedications of time or funds towards

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Show threadCarlos Solís
@codinghorror There is one single complaint I have about your "Share the American Dream" donation recipients: The Common Crawl Foundation shouldn't have received that million dollars, as the information it indiscriminately fetches without regard to licensing is part of the reason why #GenAI is a copyright landmine. If you're to insist with AI (if we disregard the economic and ethical costs), I'd rather see that money spent into building an open-source, replicatable corpus of data instead, such as the Common Pile: huggingface.co/papers/2506.052…
Paper page - The Common Pile v0.1: An 8TB Dataset of Public Domain and Openly Licensed Text

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Show threadJeff AtwoodFeb 6
@csolisr not sure this is a fair characterization of Common Crawl. I know Rich Skrenta personally and I am extremely, EXTREMELY sensitive to bad actors and have called them out far before anyone else. I could name names but I'm not gonna.