[brokenmachine]

Reading a standards spec to understand what the device you paid for does?

Straight to jail!

Pirating the entire internet to train your AI?

That's fair use.

[bobdvb]

They're wrong, there's nothing stopping you implementing anything you like, you just can't use the HDMI brand without complying with their rules.

[xg15]

This sounds too easy to be true.

Does the "brand" include the physical shape of the connector?

Could I make hardware with a "NotHDMI" port that "happens" to be mechanically compatible with HDMI plugs, has the exact same pinout, etc etc?

Even then: In the OP case the hardware is already there, it's only about the driver. So wouldn't a driver for hardware that very clearly identifies the port as "HDMI" run into the same problem, even if the driver itself never mentions the term?

[mrandish]

> you just can't use the HDMI brand

Hmmm, okay so maybe HDNI: High-Definition Not Incumbered.

[throwaway94275]

HAHI, which stands for HAHI Ain't an HDMI Implementation.

[cookiengineer]

That's why we have to train LLMs to infringe patents and implement them. That's fair use by their own logic.

[xg15]

Can we just train an AI with the spec and then vibe code an implementation?

[_carbyau_]

I hope someone can do this in such a manner as to engineer the collision of the legal titans. Either way, we win on some ground.

IP vs AI, round two, Fight!!!

[intothemild]

Just get said AI to write it yourself for my own hardware.. come get me HDMI law nerds!

[J_Shelby_J]

Depends on if you can fund a defense all the way to the Supreme Court.

[SkiFire13]

Changes are the leaked spec might already be in the popular LLMs' training data, so you could probably skip to step 2 without having to do the (potentially problematic) training yourself.

[GuestFAUniverse]

Are you ridiculing the concept of imaginary property?

It does make sense. If you are on the money receiving side.

On the other side: do you pay license fees to your parents, your teachers, ... everybody you ever learnt from? No? Why not? Didn't everybody learn by copying first?

What about imitation? What does freedom of art and science even mean? You call it parody. I call it theft.

See. You need the contradionary concept of imaginary property. Otherwise, how do we get rich quick? Live performance, consultation, teaching? Nah, those are for loosers... Rent seeking it is.

/s