[+] -6 points 1 month ago

Goalposts moved from 'it's only copying this exact project' to 'any conceptually similar project can be reworked until it's identical and that doesn't count either.'

The MW2 decomps are from the binary - but there's obviously none of its source code in the training data. Not that you seem to care, suddenly. You've made your position unfalsifiable and therefore meaningless.

New clone of a whole-ass software suite? They must be copy-pasting a specific libre project, doesn't count. Oh it's from spec documents, and structured completely differently? Well the other libre implementation is in the training data, doesn't count. Oh it also cloned cloud applications with no binaries or alternatives? I do believe there are more video effects packages, does! not! count!

Meanwhile.

These schmucks have a one-to-one copy of the latest Photoshop, permissively licensed, ready to use. It did not exist last month.

Whining about how it got made won't change a goddamn thing.

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  • [–] 32 points 1 month ago* (9 children)

    Clean room implementation would be taking the spec, API calls, etc. & writing the code that implements them from scratch. This is de-compiling existing code & converting it to another programming language. Same source routines in another language.

    It's like taking a book written in Chinese, translating it to English, and calling it your own.

    Bullshit.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (11 children)

    I hate AI as much as the next Lemmy user but the new ability for AI to near effortlessly decompile code into readable source code is insane.

    This is such a social upheaval of established tech empires. Im not about to go installing these vibe coded apps mainly for securty reasons but you cant deny its insanely impressive how this is even possible this quickly.

    I truly believe this is what will burst the ai bubble. Because tech companies probably didnt want the whole world open sourced lol

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

    I do believe there are more shooters than just MW2, is it at all binary compatible? That would impress me (cause its impossible for an ai without scraping the source lmao)

    Its like how they 'revived' the dire wolf by getting a white husky. Like imitation isnt equivalence, even if you slap the same title on it.

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  • [–] 30 points 1 month ago

    C-clean room AI?

    So like someone wrote trillions of lines of training data just for this project?

    Ooorrrr did a fancy search engine hype them up that they're a cool kid now and they wanted to believe it so bad they're willing to claim ownership over anything

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  • [–] 16 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Cause it was scraped from those original projects and doesn't exist without them

    You can flex it "only" took the entire dev time of libre office, all open source software, and every book that has been scraped + the time it took the dev to make, but to argue they made this solo is laughable.

    If you want to sit with the big kids you gotta be able to handle the heat, Microsoft changes their document format more than their taskbar - I strongly doubt this dev even understands how their files are read.

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  • [+] -20 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    It's already in a functional state. Eat now, braggart. If they achieve their goals within the month, clap the dust from their hands, and walk away with the job done, how is that less impressive than bumbling along for an entire year, to accomplish the same thing?

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  • [–] 16 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I'm gonna submit an RFC for doing domain control verification, cert request, and cert issuance as part of the tls handshake. Unique certs for every session valid for 4 minutes.

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  • [+] -13 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    Downvotes won't change that this works.

    Sneering at people using the tool won't make the tool go away. It produces running code, to spec, real quick.

    I have a few original projects I haven't been arsed to finish (or in some cases, start) and now I could have them finished by close of business Friday, for the cost of a night out. And y'all would make excuses for how it somehow doesn't count. It's not my idea, it's not my intent, it's not my design, it's not my insight... whatever. It would make something real which doesn't exist yet. I would be the only human to blame for it. Once it is demonstrably made, either I made it, or the robot did. If your philosophy can't handle that then your philosophy is wrong.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago

    It'll happen very shortly before these companies find out how well local models compete.

    Mistral is a few weeks out from releasing a 1T model nicknamed Le Chonk. Running that on consumer hardware would take some shenanigans... but these dorks are getting pretty good at shenanigans.

    Any sharply reduced distillations from that will have to compete with e.g. Qwen 3.8 27B. I haven't seen it mentioned in any specific projects, but it does have Xbox 360 decomp plugins.

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