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Adversarial Interoperability

Or: [[The Two AIs]] Link: https://anagora/adversarial+interoperability

Adversarial must be qualified and quantified immediately: what we set out to achieve is [[Digital Independence]] and increased public benefit, with [[Right Intention]]. If it seems to contradict (maybe temporarily) the alignment of corporations and be against their interests, so be it, because we need to do what is right for the future of [[humanity]] and our [[friends]].

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  • [[doing]]:
    • TODO: write the rest :)
    • Maybe after I write to [[Milei]] and [[Musk]]?
    • Or maybe those letters and this one are entangled, as this concept is part of my [[proposal]] to them.

adversarial interoperability

“That’s when you create a new product or service that plugs into the existing ones without the permission of the companies that make them,” writes [[Cory Doctorow]], special advisor to the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

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“Think of third-party printer ink, alternative app stores, or independent repair shops that use compatible parts from rival manufacturers to fix your car or your phone or your tractor.”

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Without adversarial interoperability, users have limited [[agency]] and innovation is stifled.

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The writer Cory Doctorow talks about “adversarial interoperability,” which describes a situation where one service communicates with another without the latter’s permission, or perhaps only with grudging permission secured through legislation.

[[Internet for the People]]

For most of modern history, this kind of guerrilla interoperability, achieved through reverse engineering, bots, scraping and other permissionless tactics, were the norm. But a growing thicket of “IP” laws creates severe legal jeopardy for these time-honored traditions. Just one of these IP rules — the “anti-circumvention” provision in Section 1201 of 1998’s Digital Millennium Copyright Act — provides for a five-year prison sentence and a $500,000 fine for anyone who bypasses “an effective means of access control.” And that’s for a first offense!

[[Freeing Ourselves From The Clutches Of Big Tech]]

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