Kornel

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I compress pixels (https://ImageOptim.com https://pngquant.org https://gif.ski).
Web Standards & #RustLang
my homepage last updated in 2003https://kornel.ski
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Kornel1d ago
Show threadAndreeaFeb 3

In 2025, Big Tech—just ten major companies—spent €49 million lobbying Brussels. That’s more than pharma, finance, and automotive combined.

Google funds all sixteen major European think tanks shaping EU policy. Not *some* of them. All of them. Amazon and Meta fund most of the rest.

This is no longer “poor old me, I need a bit of help,” this is full regulatory capture. With a view to becoming even more embedded into businesses and governments, and getting whatever favorable legislation passed or diluted to suit them.

https://corporateeurope.org/en/2025/10/big-tech-lobby-budgets-hit-record-levels

Kornel6d ago
Vagina Museum6d ago
Happy Sheelah's Day. This feast, largely no longer celebrated in Ireland, commemorates either St Patrick's wife or mother, who probably didn't exist. So let's celebrate a similarly-named mysterious figure today instead: the sheela na gig!
Show threadKornel6d ago
Visual Basic's `On Error Resume Next` can be galaxy-brained to `On Error LLM("rewrite the program to stop doing that")`
Kornel6d ago

In today's Coding Black Mirror episode: what if AI code generators get sped up to emit tens of thousands of tokens per second?

For now we're pretending LLMs are just sloppy devs and try to review the output, which is already exhausting.

When it gets to the point of being able to rewrite the whole project on every keystroke, source code won't be the source any more, but a discardable compiler output. Switching languages will be like applying Photoshop filters?

KornelMar 15
Jan  Mar 14

#Diverse perspectives on #AI from #Rust contributors and maintainers

https://nikomatsakis.github.io/rust-project-perspectives-on-ai/feb27-summary.html

Healthy debates are still possible, it seems. 🙏

#LLM #LLMs #RustLang #OpenSource

Summary - Rust Project Perspectives on AI

KornelMar 15
Kristian KiehlingMar 9

"Online discussions are dominated by a surprisingly small, extremely vocal, and non-representative minority. Research on social media has found that, while only 3 % of active accounts are toxic, they produce 33 % of all content [...] 0.1 % of users shared 80 % of fake news [6,7]. Not only does this extreme minority stir discontent, spread misinformation, and spark outrage online, they also bias the meta-perceptions of most users who passively “lurk” online."

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352250X24001313

Inside the funhouse mirror factory: How social media distorts perceptions of norms

The current paper explains how modern technology interacts with human psychology to create a funhouse mirror version of social norms. We argue that no…

KornelMar 15
Show threadNot a Spring OnionMar 14

@atax1a

2035:

"So, what's your job?"

"I write self-help books for computers."

KornelMar 12
Show threadBodilMar 12
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Show threadKornelMar 5
Copyright has always been a tricky balance. Trying to distinguish between inspiration and a ripoff. Let authors make a living, but not put the entire shared culture behind a paywall. Allow education, parody, commentary without creating loopholes for freeloaders (with lots of grey areas, flaws, gaps, and abuses in practice).
If copyright didn't exist, we'd have even more paranoid DRM used to defend commercial interests. If copyright was harsher, we'd get more walled gardens and DMCA-silencing.
KornelMar 5

GenAI broke copyright law, and I don't mean just infringing the rights, but disrupting the core foundations that copyright laws were built on.

Copyright enforcement assumes ability to identify whose work has been copied, but models can untraceably mashup everyone's works.
This completely messes up what a derived work is, identifying whose work has been infringed, what is fair use and remixing. Forcing old definitions to fit this either makes copyright meaningless or a maximalist dystopia.