IGN China calling western games 'cookie cutter' is big talk for a country that is only known for outputting stolen-idea blind-bag gachas and shittier versions of Sekiro.
I'm not even writing this to diss Martin, I'm not going to beef with GitHub over social media like a goofy goober. It truthfully isn't a problem. I have everything backed up locally.
But, the repository was called "Malware Source Code collection". The repo has been up for about 6 years (maybe 7 years?).
The repo was one of the most starred projects on GitHub, it was some absurd number like 12,000 or something. I can't remember (it's deleted).
Hence my profound confusion that the repo, which is cited by Universities, Cyber Threat Intelligence companies, and Cybersecurity companies, and has been persistent for 7 years, is banned arbitrarily.
I'm not sure if I want to deal with creating a support ticket, I know it won't take long, but it seems silly to me to get banned, having to plead my case, when I could simply move the collection to own Git instance (which i will do).
Also, if we're being totally honest, GitHub likely doesn't give a shit either way. The malware source code collection being there doesn't benefit them in any meaningful way.
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In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.
It continues to baffle me that we don't just treat this like a normal crime with normal liability.
OpenAI is routinely hacking other companies. These are crimes! But somehow the idea of holding them liable is just absent from the safety conversation, like agents don't count.
Bittersweet discovery indeed. No credit given to the mathematicians who did the year's worth of research aside from a "you can't prove we copied you" (and we never will, bc you can't see our systems) in a separate quote-tweet to bury its attribution
@Marcus_J_W My mom: Did you take a cookie from the jar??
Me: Iโm working on a framework for when and how I share cookie discrepancy incidents. Cookies behave in unexpected ways. Hopefully I will be better at sharing cookie updates in the future
@MTSlive TLDR:
If you steal a 3 dollar sandwich, you get arrested.
But if you steal every bit of art, writing and music on earth, you get declared โtoo big to failโ and are allowed to write the laws now