Easily possible. The acquisition debt alone was 19bn, I believe. Twitter needs to make 950 million a year just to service that debt if it's got a 5% coupon (and it could easily be higher). That's literally just paying interest on the debt, not paying it down, paying developers, or doing anything. Just servicing the debt.
I heard a rumor (here) that the Musk creature had replaced the Twitter logo with the Dogecoin dog. Foolishly, I logged in to Twitter to see if it was true.
Sadly it was, and now I wish I'd just stayed away and ignored the idiot like he deserves.
If he'd just integrated lightning he might really have changed everything and we'd be zapping people there instead.
If you ever needed any more excuses to leave Twitter forever, the dog coin addled loon's latest actions should be the final straw.
Hopefully temporary shortage? I've had reasonably quick responses to my last few offers to purchase, just as a different data point. You could try amending your preferred payment method?
Was not aware but not surprised. Let's watch and read filings/judgments as they become public
I"d agree there is a fairly strong chance of parties whose IP may be being infringed looking to sue. This raises interesting questions about who they would sue though; likely not the developers, and the AI itself doesn't yet have legal personality so can't be sued. I reckon they would file suit against the company that owns and controls the AI (assuming it's a company; I don't know enough about the corporate structure above Chat GPT to opine just yet).
It's an analogous problem to 'whom do I sue if I get hit by a self driving car'
Wild times indeed
I don't often confess this in public, but I am a contract lawyer....
There will be a time element to this; my understanding is that ChatGPT works from a copy of the internet that's two years out of date (this the info will be out of date also). Secondly, if the data is scrapable that suggests it's not paywalled or in a walled garden; if freely available it's likely to be in public domain. If not public domain per se, but registered as a patent for example, then the idea may be public, but protected legally by patent law. Trade secrets already have very strong extra legal protection in most jurisdictions.
Short answer is that I don't think anyone will have begun thinking about this in enough detail and we probably need some case law to set precedents, where people start suing GPT and Sam for plagiarism!
Wonderful piece by @dergigi, as always: https://www.citadel21.com/bitcoins-meme-wars. I look forward to meeting you on the way, even if I don't recognize you at the time...
Welcome to Nostr, #[0] ! My daughter loves her Little Hodler from Miami 2022. Thank you 💜🤙
Great piece of work, and he also seems like a sound guy. Interested to learn and to engage. It's a delicious irony that Ripple and Greenpeace appear to have gouged out their own eyes and skull fucked themselves
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On the plus side, they haven't even begun planning or coding or even giving much thought to implementing it. The UK couldn't even switch the NHS over to a new IT system without taking ten years, going horrendously over budget, and totally fucking it all up. I have great faith in the government's inability to do IT. And they've overplayed their hand; they've pushed the system too far before they were ready to put one in place smoothly. Bitcoin is already ready.
It was born ready.
It's a lovely idea. One of the best things about early Nostr was posting random tiny invoices and getting them paid (or paying them)
If it had a flat base then I'm sure we could also devise other uses for it. Bottom is in!
Welcome to Nostr, #[0] . Do you still have the biggest deadlift at Coindesk?
I am still a horny teenager, deep inside (not quite as good as being deep inside a horny teenager, but beggars can't be choosers).