Proprietary Traps and Openwashing
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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.]
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.
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Rlang ☛ rOpenSci News Digest, October 2024 [Ed: rOpenSci is not Open, it uses proprietary platforms that spy on developers]
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MIT Technology Review ☛ 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.