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Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.ca to Privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 2 months ago

Signal is the No. 1 downloaded app in the Netherlands. But why?

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Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.ca to Privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 2 months ago
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Signal is the No. 1 downloaded app in the Netherlands. But why? | TechCrunch
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Privacy-focused messaging app Signal has been flying high in the Dutch app stores this past month, sitting in pole-position for much of it.
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    Why are you licensing your comment?

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      https://lemmy.world/comment/9850401

      https://lemmy.world/comment/9805932

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          Hmm, did you read the links I posted?

          Sure, what meta did is fucked up, but they are being sued. Just because someone ignores the law, does that mean that we should just stop doing something?

          Anti Commercial-AI license

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              I should probably write a blog post about it. Basically it’s there to possibly get commercial LLMs in trouble for scraping licensed stuff. LLMs have been tricked into revealing their training data and gotten in trouble for that. There are also ongoing lawsuits due to those revelations. Maybe the most notable is the one against Github’s Microsoft’s CoPilot for spitting out licensed (GPL and also copyrighted from private repos) code.

              Whether the lawsuits will be successful or not is yet to be determined (Japan already considers nearly everything fair game for training AIs and machine learning). Whether they will have an impact if they are successful is also unknown. It just costs me a key-stroke (and the occasional response to a friendly question like yours), so I do it 🤷 Once all my hope is lost, I might stop.

              From another answer. I highlighted the important part, which explains why the explicit link to the license text instead of it being implicit.

              Anti Commercial-AI license

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                  Yep! You got it 👍 It probably won’t, but it costs me all of a few milliseconds to a few seconds. I’m a cynic, but not a defeatist.

                  Anti Commercial-AI license

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