The "benefit of someone else" in this scenario is the site operator not having their website down or their hosting bills unsustainable because of misbehaving (which are 99% of current) web scrapers from AI companies.
> Sucrose looks at code and tells the "compiler" to only parse params and skip parsing other parts of the request like body, query, headers entirely as it's not need.
My understanding is that just offering a request object with lazy accessors would solve this issue, although the accessor itself would have some overhead in repeat accesses.
> Elysia has two special optimizations for response mapping functions: mapResponse and mapCompactResponse.
This section feels a bit abstract - some transformation examples would be nice.
But the trillion dollar industry also signed this statement, that's the point - high ranking researchers and executives from these companies signed the letter. Individually these people may have valid concerns, and I not saying all of them have financial self-interest, but the companies themselves would not support a statement that would strangle their efforts. What would strangle their efforts would be dealing with the other societal effects AI is causing, if not directly then by supercharging bad (human) actors.
It's amusing that this is not an summary - it's the entire statement. Please trust these tech-leaders that may or may not have business with AI that it can become evil or whatever, so that regulatory capture becomes easier, instead of pointing out the other dozens of issues about how AI can be (and is already being) negatively used in our current environment.
Sure, if they don't make it everybody else's problem.
Not to defend MS too hard, but they supported Windows XP with security updates for 18 years. At some point software needs to be "finished", and once it is, all responsability falls upon the user.
The enterprises with competent IT that will airgap their XP machines to keep running the control plane for their factory probably "know better" than MS, the power user who refuses to use a Linux distro for their Pentium 3 box or who will disable Windows Defender and run random scripts on the internet to "debloat the OS" without understanding it, or the ones who run LTSC and then complain that their games aren't working - they all absolutely don't know better, but unfortunately they tend to be the louder voices in the conversation.