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Matt Asay

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VP, Developer Relations, @Oracle AI Database. Formerly @MongoDB (x2), @AWScloud, @Adobe. Stanford Law. Arsenal apologist. Columnist for InfoWorld. Daily skier.
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Remember how amazing I said AI was at helping me with my family history? (https://lnkd.in/gE2YNsBg) Well, I still think that, but today I discovered that AI was fabricating textual evidence to fit a… | Matt Asay | 16 comments

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By Matt Asay, Jason Straight, Erich Morisse
| LinkedIn
Remember how amazing I said AI was at helping me with my family history? (https://lnkd.in/gE2YNsBg) Well, I still think that, but today I discovered that AI was fabricating textual evidence to fit a link I'd been hoping to uncover. It read through four wills from the 1700s and "found" evidence of a John "beyond the seas," presumably in colonial America. I was so excited. This was the clue I'd been so determined to find for 20+ years.
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How do we fund open source?

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By Bill Doerrfeld Verified, Howard Solomon, Matt Asay
| The Code Project
The world has come to rely upon the free work of millions of skilled software developers—the maintainers of free open-source software (FOSS) projects. But the world hasn’t given them a tip. While it’s true that many open-source maintainers are passionate and contribute freely to the cause, others feel downtrodden or taken advantage of. “We continue to experience maintainer inequity in open source,” says Kevin Crosby, senior director of open source funding at GitHub.
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Fair Source licensing is the worst thing to happen to open source-definitely maybe

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By Matt Asay
| archive.org
Fair Source...what a complete and utter waste. Don't know what Fair Source is? On the one hand, you needn't bother learning, because it's unlikely to ever be more than the merest ripple in Wired, and then will rightly retreat into oblivion where it belongs.
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