Luckily we have open weights models that can't be banned. Even if you tried, it would be impossible to enforce, like Napster/Bittorrent again.

We've been having an existential crisis in the SaaS industry for at least six months now. See stock prices and internal panic. The recent recreation of the Adobe suite (the hard way, not a decompile) is the nail in the coffin. A company worth $98B just had its most valuable software copied by one guy with a laptop. Software patents have always been difficult or impossible to secure and defend, all over the world. So there is little legal protection.

On the one hand, everyone gets all the software they could ever want now. That's cool. On the other hand, the entire profession and industry is soon worthless. That's a lot of lost jobs and companies. We are not ready for this level of change this fast.

Local AI will be made illegal under the guise of security, and then they'll just purge anything "revolutionary" from services. The endgame currently getting pushed by the big players is pretty obvious.

Remember it needs to get criminalised everywhere for it to stop happening.

I think I’m going to have a crack at with with Claude and REA this weekend, if nothing else comes up.

I’m surprised it’s not already forbidden in training. They won’t even mention brands or characters because that’s wrongthink.

got a link to that comment in the sister thread?

This is the unfortunate truth. I've gone through 2 Withings scales because the battery basically had planned obsolecense. Then I bought a Quardio smart scale, but the company went bankrupt and all cloud syncing went down. Meanwhile my mom's $20 dumb scale works perfectly fine.

These days it's not true that if you pay for the item, you're the customer. Now you're just a potential revenue stream.

Nice work. Have you seen GadgetBridge? https://gadgetbridge.org/

True but it's good to see access to our own devices democratized, for once.

It isn't far short of magical to watch Opus hack a piece of connected hardware. Everybody should try to take advantage of that capability at least once, if only to see it in action before they nerf it.

Maybe LLMs are going to help free us from enshittification. For now.

I also think it will be a short window. I can already imagine the convoluted encryption algorithms and weird stuff the big companies will put in place to stop us from cracking their software and so on, but at least in the meantime, and with legacy devices, there will be fun to be had...

Something something think of the children.

Except it'll all be locked down into a lower-bidder insecure state too.