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Rust Foundation Apologizes For Proposed Trademark Changes, Promises Improvement
The Foundation now says their proposed policy “clearly needs improvement” and “there are many valid critiques of the initial draft,” promising to address them and adopt a more transparent process (with a report summarizing the feedback soon). From the Register’s report:
The foundation, which provides financial and legal support for the memory-safe programming language, had proposed fresh rules on the use of the word Rust and its logo, which included the recommendation that people not use ‘Rust’ in their Rust crate names, eg: vulture-rs would be preferred over vulture-rust. These draft changes triggered a backlash… Over the weekend, Rust creator Graydon Hoare voiced support for the community’s objections in a Reddit discussion thread, in response to a post by programmer Andrew Gallant, a former member of the Rust moderation team, who argued the new policy was not all that different from the old one.
“Open them up side by side — old and new — and look at what they each say about, specifically, package names, project names, repos or websites using the word ‘rust’, or modified versions of the logo used for small groups or projects,” wrote Hoare. “These are specifically the things people are upset about, because they all changed from ‘acceptable’ to ‘prohibited’ when ‘clarifying’ the policy. And those are specifically things that everyone in the community does, and has done, for years. There are zillions of packages, projects, repos, websites and groups using the names and logo this way, as the old policy said they could. The new policy tells them all to stop.”
Long-time open source advocate Bruce Perens told the Register that Rust’s trademark policy “goes far awry of fair use which is legally permitted. Books on Rust will always have its name in their title, commercial products will be advertised as being written in Rust, being compatible with Rust, or compiling Rust. But the policy attempts to deny permission for these things. A proper trademark policy prevents others from representing that their product is Rust or is endorsed by the trademark holder of Rust. That’s really as much as you can ever enforce, so there’s no sense in a policy that asks for more.”
The Register also spoke to Ashley Williams, a former member of the Rust core team and the original executive director and founder of the Rust Foundation, who argued upheaval in Rust’s governance over the past year led to a team with less experience dealing with the Rust community. “I think a couple of very passionate people participated in the trademark working group and they didn’t involve a lot of people who have even basic experience interacting with the community. So really classic community behaviors ended up getting prohibited in that [draft] policy. And that’s really why everybody got upset. The policy ultimately said, ‘a thing that you do all the time as a way of contributing to the Rust community is now against our policy.'”
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Daniel Caesar APOLOGIZES for Telling Black People to Stop Being “Mean” to White People: “I Was Wrong & I’m Sorry”
Daniel Caesar has had a change of heart.
The R&B crooner hit headlines in 2019 when he received backlash for telling Black people to stop being “mean” to White people.
Caesar’s remarks came in defense of his friend, media personality YesJulz, who he felt was being targeted by those branding her a “culture vulture.”
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Naughty Dog apologizes to Last of Us players on PC
Chaka Khan Apologizes To Mary J. Blige & Mariah Carey After Backlash For ‘Greatest Singer’ List Diss
Queen of Funk Chaka Khan was on the receiving end of a royal backlash last week when headlines rang out with quotes from her controversial interview with ‘The Originals’ podcast.
As we reported here, the legendary diva slammed ‘Rolling Stone’ magazine’s polarizing “200 Greatest Singers Ever” list printed earlier this year for placing names like Mariah Carey, Adele, and Mary J.
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Snapchat adds OpenAI-powered chatbot and proactively apologizes for what it might say
Snap announced today that it’s adding an OpenAI chatbot (similar to ChatGPT) to Snapchat. “My AI” is an experimental feature initially available for $3.99-per-month Snapchat+ subscribers, although the company reportedly wants to expand it to all users eventually. Snap’s bot rolls out this week.
My AI will appear as a regular Snap user profile, suggesting the company is marketing it less as an all-purpose writing machine and more as a virtual friend. “The big idea is that in addition to talking to our friends and family every day, we’re going to talk to AI every day,” CEO Evan Spiegel toldThe Verge. “And this is something we’re well positioned to do as a messaging service.” When it rolls out, you’ll find the bot pinned to the app’s chat section above conversations with friends.
Snap’s announcement says the bot runs “the latest version of OpenAI’s GPT technology that the authors have customized for Snapchat.” That reportedly refers to OpenAI’s Foundry, a recently leaked, invitation-only developer program for deep-pocketed developers; it lets them use GPT-3.5, the more advanced model on which ChatGPT is based. The company’s publicly available API currently only supports up to GPT-3, an older and less intelligent model. We contacted Snap for clarification on the model used and will update this article if we hear back.
Snap’s chatbot will include restrictions to stay within the platform’s trust and safety guidelines. Hopefully, it avoids a similar fate to CNET’s AI-written articles, the AI Seinfeld experiment or various other AI bot train wrecks. For example, My AI will reportedly steer clear of swearing, violence, sexually explicit content or political opinions. Snap reportedly plans to continue tuning the model as more people use it and report inaccurate or inappropriate answers. (You can do so by holding down on a troublesome message and submitting feedback.)
Even with those protections, Snap’s bot could still become a dumpster fire of misinformation and offensive content. “As with all AI-powered chatbots, My AI is prone to hallucination and can be tricked into saying just about anything. Please be aware of its many deficiencies and sorry in advance!” the company said in its announcement post. “While My AI is designed to avoid biased, incorrect, harmful, or misleading information, mistakes may occur.”