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Google copied our open-source code, removed engineers' names without credit Yeah, they do that from time to time. It doesn't help that codegooners normalize "AI"-washing copyright and credits away with "I can rewrite chardet with an LLM and change its license, past contributors and copyright holders be damned", and "zomg it's just fair use, the LLM spit it out, we didn't know it's bit for bit stolen!!1". But yeah, when the Google steals your shit, that hurts. We wanted to build the best agent in the world to control any mobile interface with natural language. Oh never mind. Fuck you both! #algernonReviewsHackerNews

Can We Understand How Large Language Models Reason? No, we cannot. LLMs would have to start reasoning first, otherwise there's nothing for us to understand. #algernonReviewsHackerNews

Death of the Status Update: Why 55% of Americans Stopped Posting on Social Media Let me guess: because corporate social media is horrible? Who would have thought?! Now, if they'd join the Fediverse, followed hashtags like #Mosstodon, or #DogsOfMastodon, or any of the other delightful ones, they'd have a much better time! #algernonReviewsHackerNews

AI in mathematics is forcing big questions Questions like: "What the fuck is wrong with you all", "Should I retire early, and go herd sheep?", "What have I done to deserve this?", and "Are you out of your mind?". Same questions are asked everywhere AI enters. #algernonReviewsHackerNews

AI slop is killing online communities Most of the communities I'm in are doing just fine, with healthy discussions, much cheer and joy (and an occassional spiral into doom and gloom, as is the nature of modern humanity). There's no AI slop in there, and it ain't killing them in any shape or form. The trick? These communities banned AI. Not just AI slop, everything LLMs and what is today known as "AI". They took a hard stance, and it paid off. Now, the author of this article sees their communities struggle - because like the author, those communities did not take a hard stand. On the contrary! They embraced "AI"! And with that embrace comes the slop. Want to keep AI slop out of your communities? Enact a hard anti-LLM policy for code and for everything else too, and enforce it. It's that simple. #algernonReviewsHackerNews