Gonna save this post for some arbitrary point in the future to pull out as a point against ‘impossible’. Might have to gift it to my descendants to make sure it’s available for long enough… /s
IMHO, this is a misleading headline: They are not building a “porn preference register”, they just going full-dystopian nightmare collecting live biometric data that could be used to _infer_ your porn preferences.
We don’t need stupid headlines to make this idea sound dumber, and kinda distracts from the real issue of biometric verification for websites being a stupid idea.
I’m assuming the type foundry legal departments are getting ready to come for the image generators when they find out their typefaces have been vacuumed up and are now generating new content without licensing the typeface for use?
> In the United States, the shapes of typefaces are not eligible for copyright but may be protected by design patent.
In the US only the font files themselves are copyrightable. It would be a difficult case to make that the model weights, or output bears any copyright-violating relation to the font files.
I did a two week trip in the UK recently, and over the ~8 restaurants we ate at, 7 required credit card to reserve, with a specific fee that would be applied if no-show
I like the aspiration to grow engineers — it’s a laudable, and worthy, goal.
But I also feel there is a little bit of a pandora’s box here.
The model you’re creating here is more structured ‘gig economy’ path for software dev. Sure, you’ve got things like UpWork, and other freelance products, but the purchasers (e.g., business) are effectively taking a risky bet on the work which can tamper commitment to purchasing work that way.
But with ‘no merge, no fee’ could create a very strange dynamic where companies will opportunistically throw work over the wall and create bounty-like dynamics. I don’t know if this is particularly bad for the purchaser, but for the seller that could lead to some challenges overtime (race to the bottom etc)
