Sure it does. It shapes your impression based on your perception of Anthropic.

"Made in China" on items for sale in China is a positive indicator. "Made in China" on items for sale in the U.S. is a negative one.

The line between "attribution" and "marketing" seems to depend on your impression of the entity involved.

I would very deliberately avoid a mystery novel or a prayer book if it said "Co-authored by Claude" because I don't want to see a world in which those things are generated by entities other than humans.

I don't have that same objection when it comes to computer code.

But the important point is that your impression of either one depends on your prior position on Claude. What do you assume when you see that attribution?

I don't really understand what makes this different from companies stamping "Made in China" on products that were made in China.

The line between "advertisement" and "attribution" seems to depend upon your impression of the entity taking the attribution.

Do you imagine China may one day claim they own all the rights to all the objects labeled with “Made in China” on them? Could Anthropic possibly do this?

I would say the answer is "obviously not," to the degree that it's hard totake your question in good faith.

The China-made goods have been sold. Ownership transfers at sale. It would be ludicrous for some Chinese agency to say, "Well, we made it, so even though you bought it from us, it's actually still ours. Surprise!"

It’s just a question meant for discussion. It’s already been decided AI generated art can not be copyrighted. Curious about the future of AI generated software, code, etc… and what having an Anthropic watermark on it will mean at that time.

The difference is that US SaaS has the pattern of not seeing sales as ownership transfer, they are in the rental model and cut off access if you stop paying

There's still some small part of me hoping that the later waves are whitehats and the reason they're keeping everything in segmented addresses is because they hope to find a way to return the funds.

how would the original owner prove ownership of the original wallet?

It wouldn't be easy, but I'm imagining it would probably require identifying the other side of some historical transactions, and being able to prove that. Like if you had ever sent to/from any other address you held the key to, you could sign a transaction from that other address.

Don't know much about bitcoin, but if they know which numerical wallet it came from, can't send it back even if they don't know the person who owned it or communicating with that owner?

Like if I woke up one morning and found money in my bank account that wasn't supposed to be there, I could just tell the bank to send it back where it came from.

The original wallet is compromised so if you send the money back the attacker can immediately re-steal it. The original owner could try to out-RBF the attacker but game theoretically that leads to the money being converted to miner fees.

The underlying issue here is that addresses created by the tool at fault can have their private key derived from public data. If you send it back, it'll just get stolen again. Furthermore, the typical way that someone proves ownership of an address is by making a transaction from that address with parameters set via private communication with someone else. But since the private key is knowable, anyone can do that. There's no generic way to prove ownership of an address if the private key associated with that address can be determined by an attacker.

Conceivably, the funds could be sent to an address that they send to before. Very far from perfect... could work if it's a centralized exchange, one could deposit to the same address more than once (or maybe there's a time limit for re-use iunno). And no way (good?) way of knowing you were sending to your own account on that exchange, or somebody else's.

The STM32 in the ColdCard has a 96-bit UID "fused" at the factory. The lower 32 bits of this are seeded into the Yasmarang PRNG's initial state. Possession of a ColdCard with a UID matching a contested wallet might be able to serve as evidence of ownership.

in other words, this attack could link together different wallets created on the same coldcard?

Yes. Huge boon for chain analysis companies, even in cases where the coins moved long ago and are no longer sweepable.

I trusted it in 2008 because none of these things had been around long enough to have a track record of enshittification.

Yeah, but if the songs in your Google Music library weren't on YouTube Music, you just lost them forever. End of story.

It was the betrayal that turned me off Google.

Are you talking about uploaded music? All of mine is still available and a lot of it definitely isn't on YouTube. Did you try looking for the uploaded music tab? It can be hard to find

This isn't true. I have tons of stuff that I uploaded that they've never heard of

The thing that pissed me off was that I had uploaded so many indie local bands' CDs, none of which were ever on YouTube, so I lost more than half of my music library when they forced that change and there was nothing I could do about it, having long since gotten rid of the disks because I believed them that they would never delete my stuff.

(Degoogled not long after that, actually. Fool me twice...)

I am not sure what you mean here. I just checked my uploads and all my live music stuff is still there, as well as obscure published records.

I had CDs from all my high school friends' dumb little bands. All gone.

I don't care that nobody else on YouTube would ever have wanted to hear them. I don't even really care that the band members themselves would probably be embarrassed that I still had a copy. The point of buying the disk (and uploading it in the first place) was so that I word continue to have access to it.

Cloud is an unnecessary evil, in the Stallmanesque sense.

I had a cohort of friends from grad school that used Buzz like crazy. We tried Google+, but it just wasn't as useful. This would have been 2008-2010.

We also really wanted to use Google Wave, but couldn't get enough invitations to go around. It was like nobody at Google figured out that the only reason invitations worked for Gmail was because Gmail was interoperable with email. Wave didn't interoperate with anything. Either your friends were on it and you could use it, or they weren't and you couldn't. 3-4 invitations after a couple months just wasn't enough of a social effect to make it useful like it had been for Gmail.

Little did we know back then how many people were yearning to have stalkers. "This person wants to be notified every time I put something online" sounded incredibly creepy in the mid-aughts!

Group chats and private Discord servers with IRL friends are the modern version of the Facebook feed.

People love attention when it's people they know and like hanging out with.

The thing that degraded Facebook and Instagram is that they're not like that anymore, they're about maximizing content so that you spend as much time on their apps as possible.

If you just want to view content they are great for that, but I'd almost argue that they're not even social networks anymore. They are much closer to a smartphone version of cable television with mildly interactive elements.

Which reader do you have? I've been looking everywhere I can think of for a good 8-inch device, but I need it to run Android. Heck, I even tried looking into tablets with traditional screens and am having trouble turning up anything serviceable.

I have a 6" screen and it's too small. I got a 10.3" one and it was too large. But I'm starting to suspect those of us who primarily want to read are the only ones who want 8 inches, and we're a rare bread.

Viwoods AI Paper mini and Supernote Nomad if you want 8” Android. They’re primarily focused on the writing experience but they will run most Android apps and Koreader.

The downsides are that they are expensive and the Nomad does not have a front light.

Not having a front light is a dealbreaker for me.

My favorite device is still my Boox Poke 2 Color. I just wish it were slightly bigger. I don't care about writing on it (I have a BT keyboard that should work fine and don't write much by hand anyway if I can avoid it). Just want to read/highlight/annotate in KOReader, but need syncthing for my workflow.

Kobo Forma. Probably not easy to run Android on it.

I love my Forma. The only thing about it that makes me sad is the micro-USB port. I skipped the Sage because it was a side-grade (USB-C but worse battery), and now they've discontinued it with no clear future for the format.

I really hope they bring back a similar format ereader in the future, I don't really want to go back to a smaller scale device when this one dies.

This reminds me of the plot some Libertarians had back in 2020 to win the U.S. presidential election by taking New Mexico or some other state. I can't remember how it was supposed to work mathematically, because NM doesn't have enough votes by itself to prevent either other candidate from getting a majority, but I remember having seen articles about it. (I tried searching to provide a link and can only find references to Texas, and I'm absolutely certain the articles I read were not about Texas.)

Maybe you were thinking of Utah in 2016? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_McMullin_2016_presidentia...