<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@film_girl" class="u-url mention">@<span>film_girl</span></a></span> you and me both. To this day I still miss some things about Mercurial.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://discuss.systems/@pkhuong" class="u-url mention">@<span>pkhuong</span></a></span> ah, from the Mill website</p><p>&quot;In March 2014 after a decade of work Out-of-the-Box Computing was incorporated as Mill Computing, Inc. in order to raise funding to begin filing patent applications and move on to the next phase. Our fundraising from angel investors has gone well, and we now have over twenty patents filed on all aspects of the Mill.</p><p>As of January 18, 2022, 17 of our patents have been granted.&quot;</p><p>so research papers are fine but not selling chips...</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://discuss.systems/@pkhuong" class="u-url mention">@<span>pkhuong</span></a></span> I was assuming the Mill people hold a bunch of relevant patents, do you know if that&#39;s the case?</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://discuss.systems/@pkhuong" class="u-url mention">@<span>pkhuong</span></a></span> cool! I always thought the register belt sounded worth exploring even if Mill was vapor</p>

<p>The Mill lives!<br /><a href="https://discuss.systems/@sigarch/114298857504143952" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">discuss.systems/@sigarch/11429</span><span class="invisible">8857504143952</span></a></p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://sciencemastodon.com/@vy" class="u-url mention">@<span>vy</span></a></span> What could possibly go wrong?</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@dabeaz" class="u-url mention">@<span>dabeaz</span></a></span> A friend who is working for one of the At-Scales told me he uses the AI to write TLA+ models (simulations) <br />I don&#39;t know that I like TLA any better than AI.</p>

(Everyone's up in arms about the Servo AI policy but it just seems fine to me. The constraints they've set basically amount to "you can only use this for things which are [de minimis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_minimis) and hence cannot cause copyright infringeent")

An interesting quandry: In a world where all ML models are derivative works of the works included in their training sets, said models will still exist because the mere production of a derivative work is not restricted by copyright law. However, the only ones that exist will be those that run in the cloud, because it will be illegal to distribute all of the large models For all that I have concerns about the things happening in the GenAI field (and dislike for a lot of the things being done with them), I can't help but feel thats the worst possible outcome. (Making it illegal to train a model is basically incompatible with the fundamentals of present day copyright law)