Exactly there was this study where they were trying to make LLM reproduce HP book word for word like giving first sentences and letting it cook.
Basically they managed with some tricks make 99% word for word - tricks were needed to bypass security measures that are there in place for exactly reason to stop people to retrieve training material.
> Borges's "review" describes Menard's efforts to go beyond a mere "translation" of Don Quixote by immersing himself so thoroughly in the work as to be able to actually "re-create" it, line for line, in the original 17th-century Spanish. Thus, Pierre Menard is often used to raise questions and discussion about the nature of authorship, appropriation, and interpretation.
This really makes me want to try something similar with content from my own website.
I shut it down a while ago because the number of bots overtake traffic. The site had quite a bit of human traffic (enough to bring in a few hundred bucks a month in ad revenue, and a few hundred more in subscription revenue), however, the AI scrapers really started ramping up and the only way I could realistically continue would be to pay a lot more for hosting/infrastructure.
I had put a ton of time into building out content...thousands of hours, only to have scrapers ignore robots, bypass cloudflare (they didn't have any AI products at the time), and overwhelm my measly infrastructure.
Even now, with the domain pointed at NOTHING, it gets almost 100,000 hits a month. There is NO SERVER on the other end. It is a dead link. The stats come from Cloudflare, where the domain name is hosted.
I'm curious if there are any lawyers who'd be willing to take someone like me on contingency for a large copyright lawsuit.
a) As an outside observer, I would find such a lawsuit very interesting/valuable. But I guess the financial risk of taking on OpenAI or Anthropic is quite high.
b) If you don't want bots scraping your content and DDOSing you, there are self-hosted alternatives to Cloudflare. The simplest one that I found is https://github.com/splitbrain/botcheck - visitors just need to press a button and get a cookie that lets them through to the website. No proof-of-work or smart heuristics.
Can we help get your infra cost down to negligible? I'm thinking things like pre-generated static pages and CDNs. I won't assume you hadn't thought of this before, but I'd like to understand more where your non-trivial infra cost come from?
I would be tempted to try and optimise this as well. 100000 hits on an empty domain and ~200 dollars worth of bot traffic sounds wild. Are they using JS-enabled browsers or sim farms that download and re-download images and videos as well?
Yeah I know a friend (small business owner) vibe coding a feature as a addon for Odoo. He has dreams of selling it (he usually has wild plans), but for now it's just a feature they want and does seem to be good enough for their use.
And the Google AI subscription is cheaper than any of the SaaS offerings.
I like to bring up JIRA example. You could replace it in-house yeah it is just tickets with statuses. /s
But then keep in mind one who built the replacement will become the owner of an application that business doesn’t want to pay for and that person will be cost center for the company.
That person better get marketing and negotiating skills that Atlassian has on board because that person will be responsible for the app and will not be getting salary increases for working on something that is not core business of the company.
You guys keep using services like Jira, Salesforce, Stripe, Datadog, etc. While those are definitely the biggest names, I don't think people are referring to those SaaS platforms as the ones they will replace or try to build an inhouse version of. It will be things like ETL pipeline services, data scraping services, maybe some internal analytics SaaS. The niche things that cost a lot because they’re in a sweet spot where only a few people need them, but no one used to have the resources to build them in-house. So, when the salesperson called and offered a perfect solution to their problem, they bought the service. Those are the ones that will be more targeted for in-house solutions.
Don’t forget that captain of the plane makes decisions not Elon.
If captain of the plane disobeyed direct threat like that from a nation, his career is going to be limited. Yeah Elon might throw money at him but that guy is most likely never allowed again to fly near any French territory. I guess whole cabin crew as well .
Being clear for flying anywhere in the world is their job.
Would be quite stupid to loose it like truck driver DUI getting his license revoked.
>Don’t forget that captain of the plane makes decisions not Elon.
>If captain of the plane disobeyed direct threat like that from a nation, his career is going to be limited. Yeah Elon might throw money at him but that guy is most likely never allowed again to fly near any French territory. I guess whole cabin crew as well .
Again, what's France trying to do? Refuse entry to France? Why do they need to threaten shooting down his jet for that? Just harassing/pranking him (eg. "haha got you good with that jet lmao")?
*Data centers in space only make sense if they are cost effective relative to normal data centers*.
Disagree there are bunch of scenarios where Data Centers in space make sense. Like nuclear annihilation and having vaults across the globe to communicate and get back lost information because ground data centers would be wiped out by EMP from blasts.
Has it occurred to anyone that you can put computers underground? In this apocalyptic scenario you are describing, how do you expect the ground based command and control infrastructure to survive? Satellites are 100% reliant on ground based operations. That is a hard requirement. And if you put the command and control underground, might as well just skip the whole space based plan and just put the data underground.
It was not my intention to single you out, my apologies.
There is nothing wrong to imagine anything you like. But if you do it as a CEO, i personally consider that as fraud. Guess I'm weird and old-fashioned like that.
I think you have it backwards. Barrier to entry just went up, why would I use a library when I can ask LLM to make one for me.
It shifts in a way where „left-pad” kind of thing will not happen because no one will need that kind of „library” because LLM will generate it.
I see it as a positive thing, no single schmuck will be terrorizing whole ecosystem when there will be dozens of of different LLMs that can write such code.
More people with shut in because they will be able to create something commercial or their „thing” won’t matter because LLM will be able to replicate their effort in 5 minutes so no one will be willing to pay for that.
The main benefit of a library has always been standardization, not reducing effort.
I don't know how many times it's been said, but writing the code was never the hard part.
People who depend on LLMs are making the same old naive mistake that's been around for decades.
It's actually worse than in the past! At least the stubborn people who would insist on writing everything themselves had to comprehend their own code and were projecting overconfidence to mask their attempts at learning. We would turn a blind eye to junior devs doing this, but then reject it in code review and tell them to just use the correct library. Now we still have all that arrogance, but without any of the effort to learn jack shit.
All instances I remember seeing were neglected, not updated running on lowest amount of resources. Everyone in company nagging how slo it is but no one wanted to share budget to improve it.
So for me that experiment „it will be better and cheaper building our own JIRA” was already done. It is going to be cost center that no one will want to throw money at.
Ugh you are aware that Atlassian earlier was providing on-perm edition for years.
You also know how neglected those on-perm instances were?
No one updated those, no one wanted to pay for more CPU/RAM. File storage, I know people who had some random requests to cleanup files from projects because company wouldn’t buy more hard drives. Everyone was nagging at sys admins that they do bad job and at Atlassian that JIRA sucks.
That is mostly why Atlassian pulled off on premise because companies would not update at all, would like to have all new features and also not pay for file storage,RAM, CPU to make it work well.
Don’t forget you still will need to have dedicated employees to deal with AI built solution - because existing employees have work to do.
What we pay for JIRA and Confluence would never offset fact that we pay and it works, NOT A SINGLE EMPLOYEE CARES as they have their job to do.
I haven’t seen HFT code but I have seen examples of exploit codes and most of it is amateur hour when it comes to building big size systems.
They are of course efficient in getting to the goal. But exploits are one off code that is not there to be maintained.
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