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Proprietary Traps and Openwashing

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 24, 2024

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Rlang ☛ Looking for Maintainers to Support First-Time Contributors [Ed: Slack is proprietary and spyware; it's the wrong way to cushion Free software contributors.]

=> ↺ Looking for Maintainers to Support First-Time Contributors

Do you remember your first contribution to open source? Or are you still waiting to make it? Contributing to open source can be very rewarding, but also incredibly intimidating.

Rlang ☛ rOpenSci News Digest, October 2024 [Ed: rOpenSci is not Open, it uses proprietary platforms that spy on developers]

=> ↺ rOpenSci News Digest, October 2024

MIT Technology Review ☛ Google DeepMind is making its Hey Hi (AI) text watermark open source

=> ↺ Google DeepMind is making its Hey Hi (AI) text watermark open source

Google DeepMind has developed a tool for identifying AI-generated text and is making it available open source.  The tool, called SynthID, is part of a larger family of watermarking tools for generative Hey Hi (AI) outputs. The company unveiled a watermark for images last year, and it has since rolled out one for AI-generated video.

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