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Stargirl
@thea.codes

Reading about this today has totally pissed me off. It turns out I don't hate AI enough.

bb.🍲@bbsoup.bsky.social

There was a redditor who used 'AI' to reverse engineer Beads firmware, and when he finished, then he asked Emilie for "permission" to release it. She open sourced it hours later.

Cassandra
@floofykitteh.northsky.social

I'm heartbroken because I was really hoping she'd release Beads someday, but... the fact that she did and not on her own terms perpetually taints it. Open-source Beads will never feel like Clouds to me. In fact, ever since the Arturia thing it all felt pyrrhic and sad.

Cassandra
@floofykitteh.northsky.social

I always believed that responsibly-trained AI guided by people with truly novel ideas could democratize design and make a new boom in people thriving in solo design where they might have been otherwise intimidated. But it's just a machine built on theft that does nothing but make theft easier.

Stargirl
@thea.codes

Manipulating this belief has been a very compelling and optimistic way of selling this absolute dogshit.

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Cassandra
@floofykitteh.northsky.social

Absolutely. And, insultingly, this could've been possible, I think. But perhaps not with today's GPUs, today's capital demands... and today's politics. Much like the Beads situation, something that should've been beautiful is crap because of crap people.