Thursday, 26th September 2024
I think individual creators or publishers tend to overestimate the value of their specific content in the grand scheme of [AI training]. […]
We pay for content when it’s valuable to people. We’re just not going to pay for content when it’s not valuable to people. I think that you’ll probably see a similar dynamic with AI, which my guess is that there are going to be certain partnerships that get made when content is really important and valuable. I’d guess that there are probably a lot of people who have a concern about the feel of it, like you’re saying. But then, when push comes to shove, if they demanded that we don’t use their content, then we just wouldn’t use their content. It’s not like that’s going to change the outcome of this stuff that much.
django-plugin-datasette. I did some more work on my DJP plugin mechanism for Django at the DjangoCon US sprints today. I added a new plugin hook, asgi_wrapper(), released in DJP 0.3 and inspired by the similar hook in Datasette.
The hook only works for Django apps that are served using ASGI. It allows plugins to add their own wrapping ASGI middleware around the Django app itself, which means they can do things like attach entirely separate ASGI-compatible applications outside of the regular Django request/response cycle.
Datasette is one of those ASGI-compatible applications!
django-plugin-datasette uses that new hook to configure a new URL, /-/datasette/, which serves a full Datasette instance that scans through Django’s settings.DATABASES dictionary and serves an explore interface on top of any SQLite databases it finds there.
It doesn’t support authentication yet, so this will expose your entire database contents - probably best used as a local debugging tool only.
I did borrow some code from the datasette-mask-columns plugin to ensure that the password column in the auth_user column is reliably redacted. That column contains a heavily salted hashed password so exposing it isn’t necessarily a disaster, but I like to default to keeping hashes safe.