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Re:AI and the Destruction of the Creative Commons by intrasight on Sunday September 20, 2026 @09:56AM (#49775930)
I don't think "you own your own hardware" will be true for long.

Spirits don't get much legal protection.

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Re:AI and the Destruction of the Creative Commons by mitxela on Sunday September 20, 2026 @10:11AM (#49776079)
If LLMs are as good at RE as everyone says, we will own our hardware again.
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Re:AI and the Destruction of the Creative Commons by intrasight on Sunday September 20, 2026 @10:43AM (#49776374)
You'd have to build your own fab from ground up - meaning no ASML. Is not going to happen.
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Re:AI and the Destruction of the Creative Commons by mitxela on Sunday September 20, 2026 @12:53PM (#49777552)
You don't have to own the entire pipeline to own enough of it. People run Linux and say they own their OS.
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Re:AI and the Destruction of the Creative Commons by za_creature on Sunday September 20, 2026 @10:00AM (#49775967)
They used to. We used to call those spirits "rights".
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