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Ask HN: Open-source AI policies and "responsbility"

noobermin — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 05:19:29 +0000

A common statement in a number of LLM/AI policies regarding AI assisted contributions across open source projects is that the developer is "responsible" for their contribution even if it was made wholly or in part by AI. I understand in layman's terms what this means and I can guess at the intent (essentially you can't blame claude for the code crashing) but responsibility as a word usually implies consequences. In the pre-AI times, were developers who submitted code that lead to crashes or bugs sanctioned in anyway? Perhaps if it were proven to be malicious (e.g. the Jia Tan incident), but usually bugs are unintentional no? What does "responsbility" even entail in open source projects and contributions?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49594163

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noobermin — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 12:28:41 +0000

Open ai has been allowed to do dubious things that would be illegal in any sane society but alas they aren't in this world. What's different about this? They play with a different set of rules than we do.

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noobermin — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 08:35:55 +0000

This is the bed all you AI hypers made. Now all manner of disparate tools fall under the banner of AI, with something like this that are not LLMs or transformer type tool, they happen to get lumped with all the rest of them.

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noobermin — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 09:11:49 +0000

So Altman and Amodei should retire?

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noobermin — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 09:06:24 +0000

750 comments but I can't believe how bad this article is. The paragraph on MAU says similarweb is untrustworthy but then cites "most estimates"...which? Sorry, I can't read this without thinking you're biased against Ed Zitron.

The best part is the spreadsheet, which makes him sound like he's just sloppy, but danluu specifically says he's being deliberately misleading elsewhere, like the opposite of hanlon's razor now? So is he being deliberately sloppy in his spreadsheets or is he just incompetent? I suppose both is a better read but you need more proof for the "deliberately misleading" line and the spreadsheet frankly is danluu's best evidence beyond the list of failed predictions which is less striking in my mind.

While I think he's probably wrong on the timing, which clearly has been wrong since 2024, it doesn't really address the greater critique, which is that ai companies and nvidia and memory manufacturers need revenues collectively in the trillions to make their investors whole. That is still unsustainable such that it's been called out by other investors and financial journalists.

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noobermin — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 23:38:14 +0000

I will say 50% of HN is responsible for the state of things today with attention. You should be ashamed of yourselves.

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noobermin — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 07:08:20 +0000

The top comment right now is essentially explaining my issue here. My problem isn't really the pro or anti stance, this is a booster account that is farming off of the engagement. This has been a thing since musk introduced paid premium blue checks on twitter, essentially these circles of accounts that just puff each other up with AI generated posts and replies now proliferate widely. You see similar accounts like gimmick accounts, accounts that post gender war or political content, age gap discourse, whatever is currently trending or spicy in order to get engagement and thus get that small cut of premium payment for said posts. Of course, in order to get a big enough return, they use scale, and thus LLM replies and multiple accounts. The AI enthusiast circle on twitter have a similar inauthentic accounts. It wouldn't be surprising if this is just one of the person's profiles.

The thing is these are more likely than not not sincere posts but are probably bots accounts used to get some skimming amount of money from the generated content. I'd rather read actually interesting details, not the "template engagement bait" (as the top comment) posted so we can debate that instead of this contentless generated post.

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noobermin — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 01:03:32 +0000

Given the incentives (an ai booster account who is also prompting chat to write his posts) does this even belong on HN? I feel like our standards have dropped so much in the last two years.

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noobermin — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 06:07:59 +0000

Tbf, this current era of capitalism really is a lot where absolutely no one wants to enter the market and take advantage of a clear overpricing of memory for consumers but simply wants to charge the same amount as everyone else. So much for "efficient markets."

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noobermin — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 02:38:30 +0000

You can't be serious about conflating a host of technologies with fucking image generation or all things. This is the worst HN comment I've seen in months and there's been loads of competition.

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noobermin — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 02:35:37 +0000

You shouldn't promote something like this as being useful for medical purposes, because some patients might think this is real and start sending their doctors these "scans" or even worse, some shitty doctors will use them to diagnose tumours in their patients so they can then make banger bucks out of their new hallucinated cancer patients.

Stuff like this needs to go through approvals for obvious reasons before they can advertise them for having medical purposes.

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noobermin — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 02:29:44 +0000

Clearly something like this would need to be approved by the FDA, it is literally irresponsible to promote something like this as being more powerful than a MRI.

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noobermin — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 09:06:25 +0000

Man no wonder ai wows a lot of HN posters. This can't be the default attitude of developers today.

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noobermin — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 07:55:39 +0000

This is likely because the government fears of protests. Just like the bans in the west were mostly about anti Israel/ pro Palestinian rhetoric, this is a response to the anti Government protests last year in Indonesia and elsewhere. They're afraid of it happening there.

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noobermin — Sat, 30 May 2026 03:41:54 +0000

American moderates are amazing. "Let's see how suburban republicans feel about this that Trump has done! He's really spoiled his chances next election!" You guys have been waiting for the non-fascist republican voter for more than a decade at this point.

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noobermin — Thu, 28 May 2026 09:42:00 +0000

He just needs to profess his love for our country (the president, you know how Trump says attacks on him are attacks on the whole country) and may be say he has dirt on the deep state or hasan piker or something. Trump will be inviting him to the white house where he can steal from the government and tax payers in a more sanctioned way.

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noobermin — Sun, 24 May 2026 08:04:59 +0000

There is no contradiction between the points made so far. His base loves it and the majority of americans do not. He won by a marginal victory just like in 2016. The current system favors the Rs and the Rs have worked to gerrymander every state they've controlled since 2010, and they've used everything in their power since the obama years to make sure they control the courts. Poll after poll shows americans don't like Trump (or Biden for that matter or the Democrats) but because of the moment in 2024, Trump took a marginal victory and consolidated power, which Democrats never could do and never wanted to do.

The simple statement that none of this is what voters want if we're talking about a majority of them is just true. To say otherwise is to be ignorant of history since the 90s and the Rs under Newt Gingrich to this day, and how effectively as a party they've consolidated power in America. I'm not really saying it's evil or smart or anything (I do think it was smart and bold). But, polls do consistently show a majority of Americans have never been so pessimistic about the country and their leadership in both parties.

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noobermin — Sun, 24 May 2026 07:47:49 +0000

Also there is a bit of inertia. In people's imaginations, the US still seems to glimmer, even if the reality isn't the same.

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noobermin — Sun, 24 May 2026 07:41:48 +0000

I will say, there are a non-zero number of people who were rooting for Trump and the American right wing in general who are now surprised the fascists are turning on them. I don't know, it's hard to have sympathy for some of you.

Did you really think the whites saw you as one of them? Were you so naive? Because you were "educated"? Because you worked in Silicon Valley or SF (you know California, the same places that Trump ranted against for years because they never voted for him)?

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noobermin — Thu, 21 May 2026 16:50:14 +0000

>I don't really get why some people seem to think that it's somehow better to have their bullet point prompt as a huge text.

Because they want to mislead you.