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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
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- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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You tell me. Many people don't like dialectical thinking.
https://lemmy.zip/post/63859359
But this makes me think back to a video I saw not long ago about clean room engineering.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6godSEVvcmU
Now, while obviously dangerous for open source, could we not utilize AI in the same way to legally recreate proprietary software and code and release it as open source? As a means of fighting back?
Your suggestion of promoting AI-generated product as expression and their idea of poisoning the AI well are not the same.
A dialectical discussion can and often does include "no, your suggestion is counterproductive and undesirable."