Schadrach

He technically has that power. And if the midterms don’t go his way Congress has the power to refuse to do anything he does want. He’s not patient enough to play that game without doing something that might make even Senate GOP turn on him. But not until after 12:01PM Jan 20, 2027, that way it doesn’t count as a Vance term.

It’s a simple reality that impeaching Trump and removing him from office requires a 2/3 majority of both houses of Congress to vote for to achieve. Without that, the answer is no, he’s not going to be impeached and removed from office. Dems will likely stand in solidarity to push that through, but unless the midterms go in a wildly unlikely direction that’s not going to be enough to get the 2/3 of both houses, which means you are going to need GOP to break ranks, which is varying degrees of unlikely.

Dems released this report now so it would be fresh in minds for the midterms, because that’s the most impact it’s likely to have while Trump is still in office and they are wildly unlikely to be able to get him out without GOP growing a spine and turning against MAGA (which they won’t do because it hurts their reelection odds).

I don’t know, do Dems have a 2/3 majority of both houses of Congress? Or are some GOP going to break ranks to get there? No? Then probably not.

I mean when the only thing of value you have to offer to the job is a shorter name, what else would you advertise on?

Think more extreme than that, as in “if you’ve ever seen any GPL code whatsoever, it has in some small way impacted your understanding of code and now all code you write forevermore must be GPL” rather than just the codebase of the thing you are re-implementing because that’s the kind of breadth you’d have to apply to the “derivative works” clause in GPL to argue all gen AI code must be GPL because the training data contains some GPL code.

This represents such an entirely wrong idea of what’s going on that it’s almost hilarious. The model doesn’t just have an internal database of all the training data that it, like, collages together. Holy fuck, if a model internally contained all of the training data in a form it could simply be retrieved from it would be far more valuable as data compression than anything else it might be or do.

What’s much closer is that an image generation model has seen millions of pictures, each labeled with metadata about what it is a picture of, each of which causes tiny adjustments to the neural networks weights, because the model is being trained to be able to look at a novel picture and recognize “this picture is of a dog pissing on an apple tree”. Any model that can do that can also be run in reverse - essentially “here is a block of white noise I am saying is supposed to be a really noisy picture of a dog pissing on an apple tree, try to clean up the noise and show me how it looks like a dog pissing on an apple tree”, then run that in a loop until the picture doesn’t change much between iterations. It doesn’t need to have seen something precisely identical to what it’s generating - with enough training data it has an internal model for things like dogs, clowns or what makes something look like anime and the generation just tickles the bits until the picture rates as probably being what’s being asked for.

Hell, my interpretation of the “derivative works” clause of GPL stipulates that all llm and genai products should also be gpl.

…an interpretation broad enough to cover that would also mean that anyone who has ever seen GPL code before would only ever be able to write GPL code ever again. The idea of which I imagine would give Richard Stallman an erection you could see from space,