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chardet is a Python module ... with 170 million downloads ... licensed under the GPL. A different developer ... to include it in the Python standard distributi
by ignoramous 7mo ago
chardet is a Python module ... with 170 million downloads ... licensed under the GPL. A different developer ... to include it in the Python standard distribution ... [reimplemented] it. With [Claude] ... in 5 days ... the reimplementation ... [has] better performance.
May be LLMs learning from all of the FOSS code out there, and out-performing a team of domain experts, is helping us realise the promise of free as in beer.
- vips7L 7mo agoI guess the question is: was Claude trained on chardet? Is that really clean room?
- spwa4 7mo agoWhat do you mean? It's pretty damn clear how copyright and courts work, but let's review: 1) when a large copyright conglomerate sues a teenager: 30.000 USD per violation + enforcement of the license by an armed police officer coming to their house. 2) when a teenager has copyright violated by a large copyright conglomerate, or any large company: change the rules and force a compromise, resulting in $0 in damages. In fact it has just been made clear that copyright DOES NOT protect against AI training. That's "fair use". But let's pretend the courts are fair. Let's say I take all disney movies and tell AI to make a new one. Will courts suddenly decide Disney owns the copyright on both the model AND the movie? 100%.
- ignoramous 7mo ago> was Claude trained on chardet? Is that really clean room? Not a true clean room; the TFA notes: ... Every file is different. Automated plagiarism checks report only 1.3% in common code ... the reimplementation looks very clean. Different code, different algorithms, and better performance.