Rather than blogging about new topics, I wonder if the author has considered joining a forum. Creating a forum thread is typically simpler and less formal than a blog post. Forums are also designed for topical discussions, unlike blogs which encourage a one-way communication

The point is that you can buy a book for a few bucks, read it, and have its insights completely available to you. But people are demanding that LLM companies pay far more to publishers for the same copies

You can also buy a book produce a large number of copies after jumbling around some chapters sell it to other people. That's illegal to do if you are person but not if you an AI company.

I suppose an argument might be made for fair use if they released their model weights publicly without financially profiting from it.

I'd be careful suggesting Kurzgesagt because they push propaganda for large corporations

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjHMoNGqQTI

Is this confirmed/factual? Their reddit response to the controversy definitely gave me second thoughts

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https://agoraroad.com/

It's not based on plugging an LLM into an area where it doesn't belong in the first place?

It's entirely reasonable to expect the basic functionality of document and spreadsheet editors to edit documents and spreadsheets. If an editor no longer can edit, it's no longer functional. Microsoft seems to know this which is why they removed the "continue to function" clause from their end-of-support page.

Unfortunately this kind of thing will continue since Microsoft can survive any slap on the wrist that might come their way for their sleazy practices. They've done it countless times throughout their existence. It has been paying off enough for them to keep doing it.

> They've done it countless times throughout their existence.

Exactly. As such I no longer consider them accountable when they do this kind of thing. It's the buyers' fault for not voting for better with their wallets, and I have 0 sympathy for them.

Have you tried a darker background but with an inverted color filter on the text? (I'd try it myself but I'm not at my computer for this post)

No, I was just checking it out on Google Fonts and I could not see a way to change the colours of the sub-pixels which is affecting the readability.

This feels like a modern version of people writing regex to validate email addresses: employing a complicated, yet incomplete roll-your-own approach as the wrong solution to a problem

It's the Google AMP controversy all over again

Actually, noise is the opposite of signal. Data harvesting companies hate noise because strong signals are profitable. It's why Google successfully pushed for people to use their real identities online initially through Google Plus and why they also displayed such an unprecedented backlash against the AdNauseum browser extension after it came out