If it’s like that stuff then they didn’t invent it.

I need to pick this up when I get home. I keep putting it off.

Both of those seem trivial to circumvent.

Your initial claim was that MLMs “steal” content to train on, which is plainly false. If MLM training data is theft, then piracy is theft. All this hate should be directed at the legal system that punishes individuals for piracy while enabling corporations to do the same.

I like how you completely dodge his argument with this. If training data isn’t considered transformative, then it’s copyright infringement, like piracy.

The AI doesn’t need creativity because the “A” in “AI” stands for “artificial,” not “autonomous.” It’s a tool. Someone is controlling the output by setting the input parameters.

But the theft in my opinion is that a minority control this nascent tech, based on existing capital, and most of that ‘venture capital bro’ money funding this was made off of platforms that became wildly profitable for them from humans that were doing this. But now this is going to displace them and create no more need for them.

So the problem is capitalism, not AI.

I’ve run into issues where information I want access to just doesn’t exist anymore because of the Reddit fiasco. The people that did that were a small minority of Reddit, and Reddit as a whole was basically unaffected by the protest after it was quashed.

Imagine the type of chaos it would cause if it came out that the LW admins were getting a corporate kickback to destabilize the Fediverse, or that they were involved in some other equally shady enterprise. It would probably be the end of the Fediverse, either through the created schisms or the lack of will to stop the corporate meddling. It would at least cause massive instability and make us look bad to users who would otherwise think of joining. A lot of information would probably be lost as people tried to push back. I’m sure a lot of people just wouldn’t have the willpower to move their communities elsewhere and there would be a significant number of people supporting the admins’ actions through apathetic inaction.

The issue is that the kid that owns the ball sets the rules. LW could do something heinous, and the only choices would be to cope or lose half the Fediverse.

This highlights the problems with the Fediverse pretty well. Even decentralized systems tend towards centralization.

Reddit still has over 70 million daily active users. The actions taken were entirely ineffective.

Reminder that people did fuck-all to actually try and stop spez from turning Reddit into this dumpster fire

1212 isn’t a palindrome, but 1221 is.

Here’s my simple solution: be unable to operate a car.

For an app that costs $20, its parity with Lemmy is pretty terrible.

He just like me fr

UMG can go to hell. Musicians already make almost next to nothing from song sales because the labels take so much.

Three copies of Dwarf Fortress

Doubtful. Bungie has been hemorrhaging employees.

Someone there was supposed to help me get a job, but I woke up to them telling me about this instead.