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Spirixel retweeted
Here's what I heard.
One: I'm allowed to use what the model gives me.
Two: The company won't come back and claim my product.
Three: it's original, it's mine alone, and I could stop someone who builds something similar.
The sentence only makes the first two.
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Spirixel retweeted
OpenAI and Anthropic both say roughly the same thing about what you build with their models: you own the output.
It sounds wonderful. But I hear three promises in that sentence, and it only makes two.
Part 2 of a four-part series on AI, originality and ownership.
Spirixel retweeted
What can be protected is the human part: your own expression still perceptible in the output, or creative arrangements and modifications you made.
Not the number of prompts. Not the hours.
Effort matters to me. The law asks what human expression is actually there.
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Spirixel retweeted
"My IP" is several things. A name is a trademark question. A confidential process can be a trade secret, only while it stays secret. Art and code are copyright questions, judged piece by piece.
There's no single shield called "my app idea."
scatteredonpurpose.substack.…
This is a new ‘tool’ and with every new breakthrough comes the obsolescence of the replaced.
So the useful question isn't whether an idea is all mine or all collective.
It's what I contribute that gives the product its direction: the audience I chose, the suggestions I threw out, the decisions I can explain.
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Spirixel retweeted
So every answer comes from something much larger than my one conversation.
The real question: am I developing an original direction, or accepting a familiar combination that just feels new to me?
Spirixel retweeted
And copyright protects expression, not ideas. A spec I write can be protected. A rearrangeable bookshelf with a candle on it can't.
The U.S. Copyright Office says prompting alone doesn't make you the author of what comes out.
Spirixel retweeted
Then I read the fine print. OpenAI's terms say I own the output. The same terms warn that it may not be unique, and other users may get similar output.
I own my copy. That doesn't make it the only copy.
Spirixel retweeted
A 2024 study in Science Advances: writers given AI story ideas produced stories rated as more creative and better written.
Those stories were also more similar to each other.
A tool that makes each of us better can nudge all of us toward the same place.
Spirixel retweeted
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The full story is live: "From Canvas to Code: How a Fine Arts Degree Built a Software Lab."
What's the "useless" degree or detour in your past that you're starting to think might actually be your edge?
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ALT https://scatteredonpurpose.substack.com/p/from-canvas-to-code-how-a-fine-arts?r=82326n
Spirixel retweeted
While building SpiceShelf, I saw an ad for another product. A digital bookshelf you could rearrange. Shelves where you wanted them. A flower pot. A candle.
I'd been workshopping those exact details with AI.
Part 1 of a four-part series on AI, originality, and ownership.
Spirixel retweeted
So the useful question isn't whether an idea is all mine or all collective.
It's what I contribute that gives the product its direction: the audience I chose, the suggestions I threw out, the decisions I can explain.
scatteredonpurpose.substack.…
Spirixel retweeted
This is why "get users early" is advice everyone repeats and nobody takes.
It isn't really about feedback. Users are the only thing that makes the readiness question answerable at all.
Without them you're not being careful. You're guessing, forever.
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Spirixel retweeted
I keep a registry of every brand I run. Name, category, stage, URL.
One of the allowed values for stage is "shipped."
Seventeen brands. Nothing has ever earned it. Not once.
That's not a filing error. It's a diagnosis.
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Spirixel retweeted
🇰🇵🇯🇵 North Korea fired MULTIPLE BALLISTIC MISSILES, triggering an emergency alert from Japan.
South Korea says the missiles traveled more than 900 KM, while Japan detected at least two launches that apparently landed in the sea outside its territorial economic zone.
This is Pyongyang's FOURTH missile test in roughly a month.
Kim Jong Un is keeping the region on edge, and Japan is preparing for the possibility of more launches.
Source: PM's Office of Japan / Writer: Sol
Spirixel retweeted
🇺🇸 This girl's hair gave me flashbacks of sliding across the fresh Armor All coating of a vinyl bench seat in the back of a 1984 Ford Thunderbird, taking a right turn at 65 miles an hour.
Seatbelts and car seats weren’t really a thing back then… BUT THAT HAIR THO!
Writer: Jamie xitter.gq/marianotkidding/status…
Spirixel retweeted
Still missing: nutrition, medication, supplements. Not a line of code yet.
But that's the thesis. Every one of those lives in a different app that owns its slice. Nothing can tell me how they move together.
One database can.
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Spirixel retweeted
I spent two weeks building a workout app, and not because the world needs another one.
Because every one I've used owns my training history and decides what I'm allowed to do with it.
Three things I could never do:
Spirixel retweeted
This bot never placed a live trade, and it was still the most valuable thing I built that month. Everything that replaced it came out of what broke here.
What's the most useful thing you've built that never shipped?
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