It's also notable that these companies often dont respect the terms of foss software at all. Anyone worth their salt can tell you that training your LLM on gpl3 code would make it a derivative product, as it is able to reproduce large parts of that code. LLMs that are currently earning Google, Facebook, Openai, etc, billions, while they obviously dont make "their" products available under gpl3.

I don't mind them training on GPL code, but I wish they had to at least publish their model weights (and maybe also training and inference code, etc.) - same for the other issues re. using copyrighted media in training.

Its not really about if you mind, they create derivative works in direct violation of the gpl.

Stuff like this will just keep happening unless a major jurisdiction goes after these digital mercinaries. The fact that we ignore all laws for no reason other than "our agencies really like spying on people" is laughable. Literally crime as a service, sanctioned by most governments. Should not be surprising that such criminal organizations use their tools to spy on people who don't deserve it.

Ignore all laws?? EU has officially recognized the utility of these criminal agencies. Of course under the all-time-classic umbrella of "legitimate use for law enforcement" which in common means "go ahead and use it freely, if you get caught we'll give you a slap on the wrist"

There is a higher chance that vendors take OS development more seriously when it comes to security...

I wish they weren't sued into providing a backdoor for the German government, I vastly prefer their corporate structure to proton, but I cant really trust to use a "encrypted" service with a government backdoor.

Proof? There is no backdoor in Tuta, the code is here: https://github.com/tutao/tutanota

There was a court case here a while ago because the feds wanted access to someone's emails. They won the case and forced tuta to build them a way into their system that allows them to get at non end to end encrypted emails before they get at-rest-encrypted. German article https://www.heise.de/news/Gericht-zwingt-Mailprovider-Tutano... English article about the same topic https://hackread.com/encrypted-email-provider-tutanota-backd... This essentially means they are forced to save a copy of the non encrypted emails somewhere, at least for german customers. You can argue its not a "backdoor" in the typical sense, since end to end encryption is still in place, but like, come on

Hi, Tuta Team here, we came across this and wanted to jump in. The facts are correct - thanks for explaining it the way it actually was. We explain in more detail here why this case highlights the need for *end-to-end encryption* and why we recommend everybody using it whenever possible: https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/ntzn3w/comment/h0v...

Call me crazy but i don't think european media should hype up an airbnb-like company, just because it has the capability to make money does not mean its good for the world or should exist. We do not need a european amazon, we need to move away from companies like that full stop.

> Call me crazy but i don't think european media should hype up an airbnb-like company

You are right... Unless the alternative is all Europeans using an US company for that.

They care about these animals but they are still animals, to dumb to avoid the road and they probably don't mind having such horns and it could save their life

You don't want anyone to be working on replicating things humans can already do? We'll just continue tilling fields to eternity..

This is too dismissive, and there are a zillion articles of human learning.

Seems like Lina Khan's absence will be felt continually and immediately.

would not happen to you at pontins

It's the only thing that wouldn't happen to you at Pontins!