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Building a Linux GPU Driver for the M4 Mac Mini in One Month

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  1. MoltenMonster · · focus · HN ↗
    <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;AsahiLinux&#x2F;comments&#x2F;1whecn1&#x2F;comment&#x2F;pa1spia&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;AsahiLinux&#x2F;comments&#x2F;1whecn1&#x2F;comment...

    &gt; The author was banned from Asahi Linux for hiding his extensive use of LLMs from us in another attempted contribution, and (more importantly) for concealing that he is a former Apple engineer with direct contacts to the people involved in Apple Silicon development. Make of this what you will.

    1. cromka · · focus · HN ↗
      I find it extremely ironic that big corp openly steals IP en masse to build their models but hackers are still concerned about using same models for their reverse engineering work.

      I think at this point the hacking community needs to grow some balls.

      1. littlecranky67 · · focus · HN ↗
        Agree. Especially since even a tainted GPU driver (tainted as in, used former Apple Engineer knowledge) is usefull as we just throw another LLM onto it and tell it &quot;rewrite in rust&quot; and get an untainted version of it (at least that is the current judicial state, and the bigtech argues in this direction).
        1. mitxela · · focus · HN ↗
          An AI doesn&#x27;t magically add copyright but it also doesn&#x27;t magically remove copyright except via diffusion of training data. It does not remove copyright from its input. Malus was a parody. If you machine-translate something from one language to another, copyright is retained no matter how sophisticated the translator is.
          1. littlecranky67 · · focus · HN ↗
            That remains to be seen (in court). So far you can take any software project written in programming lang $X and have the AI convert it to $Y. Yes, you could say derived work, but it currently impossible to determine if it was rewritten by a human or AI. And there is the point at which every human violates copyright by building on those who came before him - i.e. if I write code in $X, is the inventor of programming language $X entitled to my code - clearly I took his work and built on it. Today the courts say no, this would not be derived work - but it is hard to draw a strict line what is.
            1. mitxela · · focus · HN ↗
              It doesn&#x27;t matter if a human or AI did it, because a human translation doesn&#x27;t remove copyright either.
              1. fragmede · · focus · HN ↗
                Courts have ruled that clean room reimplantation does, however.

                Decided by the courts in for American Megatrends and Phoenix Technologies for their IBM BIOS reimplementation that lead to the PC revolution in the 1990s.

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