It's one of my favorite "teach someone AI development" tasks. Almost everyone has some feature they wish existed in a task management app that doesn't line up with any current project, and building your own is so helpful!
I'm looking forward to the making of more software. I think there are probably people who have had really useful software ideas for a long time that they'd never be able to raise money for, but now for $20 a month, they can get up and running, serving their local and/or niche communities, without having to hire a team of engineers.
Eventually we're going to reach a point where they don't have to understand the code themselves. The democratization of software creation is going to be fascinating.
The Android/iOS app store is already flooded with low quality apps. Almost 20,000 games have been released on Steam so far in 2026, that averages to about 70 games per day, every single day. Getting any kind of traction in such a environment is hopeless; every new app might as well be a scream into the void.
I think a lot of people don't want or care about major traction. They want to make little things that make their own little corners of the world better.
There are small towns all over the world which could realistically have their own little "hometown app" now, that really does track all the interesting things going on there. People don't need "The (Unofficial) Smallville Happenings" Facebook pages anymore. These don't all have some programmer who cares enough about building such a thing to make it happen, but they probably do have a teenager or even a retiree who would have a lot of fun making something that really works well for the people of that town and how they want to use it. The barrier to entry just became low enough to get over.
And that's just one example. There are SO MANY problems that used to require mega investment to solve at scale to get any traction at all. Now communities can build them for themselves. And they'll never be the kind of data target that a megacorp is, because you'd have to target each little app individually, hoping there was something useful in there.
The democratization of software development is going to have lots of things that go nowhere, and lots of little hobby projects, and a few things people will actually hear about and care about. But a lot of people's lives will become incrementally better and I'm excited to see that.
I think there might be a small handful of humans whose visage is so distinctive they can definitely know (or more importantly, prove) an AI image is of them and not a doppelganger. I can't imagine winning this case.
Can't prove a negative. Proving 'it's an image of me' is as easy as holding the image next to your face. Proving 'it's not an image of you, but of a doppelganger' requires proof such a doppelganger exists.
Do you have your image source available somewhere? I'm not going to build this same thing, but I'd love to add some prints of birds to my shelves and, not knowing much about birds, it would help to have a set of pictures I could look through and go, "Ooh! This one!" and learn about them. It'd be a good jumping on point!
Do you imagine China may one day claim they own all the rights to all the objects labeled with “Made in China” on them? Could Anthropic possibly do this?
I would say the answer is "obviously not," to the degree that it's hard totake your question in good faith.
The China-made goods have been sold. Ownership transfers at sale. It would be ludicrous for some Chinese agency to say, "Well, we made it, so even though you bought it from us, it's actually still ours. Surprise!"
It’s just a question meant for discussion. It’s already been decided AI generated art can not be copyrighted. Curious about the future of AI generated software, code, etc… and what having an Anthropic watermark on it will mean at that time.
The difference is that US SaaS has the pattern of not seeing sales as ownership transfer, they are in the rental model and cut off access if you stop paying
Sure it does. It shapes your impression based on your perception of Anthropic.
"Made in China" on items for sale in China is a positive indicator. "Made in China" on items for sale in the U.S. is a negative one.
The line between "attribution" and "marketing" seems to depend on your impression of the entity involved.
I would very deliberately avoid a mystery novel or a prayer book if it said "Co-authored by Claude" because I don't want to see a world in which those things are generated by entities other than humans.
I don't have that same objection when it comes to computer code.
But the important point is that your impression of either one depends on your prior position on Claude. What do you assume when you see that attribution?
There's still some small part of me hoping that the later waves are whitehats and the reason they're keeping everything in segmented addresses is because they hope to find a way to return the funds.
Are you talking about uploaded music? All of mine is still available and a lot of it definitely isn't on YouTube. Did you try looking for the uploaded music tab? It can be hard to find
I lost my entire local indie music collection. I'm glad your interests were apparently more mainstream, but I can't listen to my high school classmates' songs ever again.
The thing that pissed me off was that I had uploaded so many indie local bands' CDs, none of which were ever on YouTube, so I lost more than half of my music library when they forced that change and there was nothing I could do about it, having long since gotten rid of the disks because I believed them that they would never delete my stuff.
(Degoogled not long after that, actually. Fool me twice...)
I had CDs from all my high school friends' dumb little bands. All gone.
I don't care that nobody else on YouTube would ever have wanted to hear them. I don't even really care that the band members themselves would probably be embarrassed that I still had a copy. The point of buying the disk (and uploading it in the first place) was so that I word continue to have access to it.
