On one hand Facebook has never done anything to help anyone not named Zuckerberg.

Hm, React is also open-source - it’s under the MIT license. A lot of people have jobs and develop or use products made with it. Probably there are other good examples that I’m not aware of.

However, here the license is more restrictive:

2. Additional Commercial Terms. If, on the Llama 2 version release date, the monthly active users of the products or services made available by or for Licensee, or Licensee’s affiliates, is greater than 700 million monthly active users in the preceding calendar month, you must request a license from Meta, which Meta may grant to you in its sole discretion, and you are not authorized to exercise any of the rights under this Agreement unless or until Meta otherwise expressly grants you such rights.

I wouldn’t say that’s a crazy requirement. A lot of businesses still could use it free of charge, because few have 700 million or more monthly active users. Besides, from the given text I’m not sure if this applies to the current version of the LLM or not.

You can’t fork it and change the license. You can’t use it to develop another LLM either:

v. You will not use the Llama Materials or any output or results of the Llama Materials to improve any other large language model (excluding Llama 2 or derivative works thereof).

So yeah, while they want to protect their commercial interests and put some restrictions in place, we should discuss the actual license agreement instead of talking about trust and beliefs. To me, it doesn’t look bad.

My phone usually stands on the wireless charger as it’s next to my PC. I charge it before going somewhere, because the phone is 6 years old and its battery could be better.

I use it every day in my job and the quality of answers only drops off when prompts are poorly crafted.

Same. It saves me a lot of time both at work and when I’m working on my personal projects. But you need to ask proper questions to get proper answers.

It’s not that hard to predict, given that ~90% of startups fail.

https://blog.hubspot.com/the-hustle/how-many-startups-fail

https://explodingtopics.com/blog/startup-failure-stats

https://www.failory.com/blog/startup-failure-rate

These things are inevitable whether you host everything yourself or in the cloud. The latter simply has to be more secure than the former. And it probably is in many cases.

I’ve always wanted to make a game, but it’s a huge task that requires either spending money on assets like music, models, and art, or investing time in learning how to create them myself (and then some more time to create them). I’m actually excited to see if AI could help with this, potentially making game development more accessible for solo developers.

Whether AI will be added into games doesn’t really concern me. If they add AI and it makes a game worse - I can always play something else.

I enjoyed Tiny Tiny RSS back in time.

Google Reader. Never forget…

Well, I’m glad I didn’t bother to add them.

Vacations could be one of the biggest factors.

What has changed? I still use it for small things and find it quite helpful. I avoid using it for serious things though, as that’d require giving it the company’s data.