• hendrik@palaver.p3x.de
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    I don’t think it’ll be bad scary though. I mean companies lock down everything by software. It’ll probably not do any harm to us if we decompiled the software on our TVs, cars, games, anticheat, …, smart toasters, and learn how they work.

    Companies letting go of 30% of their workforce, security vulnerabilities and all the copyright theft in a top-down way is what worries me. And we get that anyway with AI. So… idk… maybe this is one small upside? We can decompile and AI-wash software, too? (It is part of an ugly, bigger picture, though.)

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        Yes, I thought of that as well after sending my comment. Everything these days is a subscription service anyway. And every gadget comes with a smartphone app and a cloud which transfers my data across some ocean. The real deal happens on some server.

        Guess AI raises these questions… Even before those AI reverse engineering efforts, people have been questioning been whether it makes sense any more to learn programming, write books, draw… I’d say yes. But it ain’t easy.