knitwitt

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve runs its massive PC gaming ecosystem with only about 350 employees⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Developers can and almost always do close to offer their games on multiple platforms and can even choose self hosted direct distribution of they do choose. Customers can choose to purchase their games on steam, itch, epic, Microsoft, or any of the many places they’re often hosted simultaneously. Steam is more often than not the choice people choose to use of their own free will because they perceive it as being the superior service.

  Why do you believe excellence should be punished?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Is Run By Fewer Than 80 Staff, Lawsuit Docs Reveal⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Valve is profitable because of the reputation they’ve built up over many years as being an incredibly consumer friendly storefront. Avoiding corporate bloat, and focusing their attention on the core aspects of their business consumers care about has allowed them to thrive where many others failed. Valve created and maintained a fantastic product. So yes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve runs its massive PC gaming ecosystem with only about 350 employees⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Stream created and maintains a platform that gamers and developers want to use but more importantly, they’ve built up a reputation that people believe in and trust.

  Gamers and developers are so eager to use steam because in all the years they’ve been operating, they still support and expand upon family sharing, have a fantastic refund policy (for consumers), don’t employ aggressive exclusivity deals, don’t limit download speeds behind paywalls, and provide a great review and recommendation system.

  They’ve become successful due to this reputation, why should we punish them for that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve runs its massive PC gaming ecosystem with only about 350 employees⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Valve created a fantastic entertainment product that people voluntarily choose to use. Who would you want to turn something people already love into something completely different? Counterproductive - especially when direct distribution is essentially free and universally accessible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grisham, Martin join authors suing OpenAI: “There is nothing fair about this”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I imagine that the easiest way to acquire specific training data for a LLM is to download EBooks from amazon. If a university professor pirates a textbook and then uses extracts from various pages in their lecture slides, the cost of the crime would be the cost of a single textbook. In the case of a novel, GRRM should be entitled to the cost of a set of Ice & Fire if they could prove that the original training material was illegaly pirated instead of legally purchased.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grisham, Martin join authors suing OpenAI: “There is nothing fair about this”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If I took 100 of the world’s best-selling novels, wrote each individual word onto a flashcard, shuffled the entire deck, then created an entirely new novel out of that, (with completely original characters, plot threads, themes, and messaged) could it be said that I produced stolen work?

  What if I specifically attempted to emulate the style of the number one author on that list? What if instead of 100 novels, I used 1,000 or 10,000? What if instead of words on flashcards, I wrote down sentences? What if it were letters instead?

  At some point, regardless of by what means the changes were derived, a transformed work must pass a threshold whereby content alone it is sufficiently different enough that it can no longer be considered derivative.