• @TotalCasual@lemmy.world
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    910 months ago

    No, they can make money without stealing. They just choose to steal and lie about it either way. It’s the worst kind of justification.

    The investors are predominantly made up of the Rationalist Society. It doesn’t matter whether or not AI “makes money”. It matters that the development is steered as quickly as possible towards an end product of producing as much propaganda as possible.

    The bottom line barely even matters in the bigger picture. If you’re paying someone to make propaganda, and the best way to do that is to steal from the masses, then they’ll do it regardless of whether or not the business model is “profitable” or not.

    The lines drawn for AI are drawn by people who want to use it for misinformation and control. The justifications make it seem like the lines were drawn around a monetary system. No, that’s wrong.

    Who cares about profitability when people are paying you under the table to run a mass crime ring.

      • @TotalCasual@lemmy.world
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        310 months ago

        Depends on the context. Are you copying someone else’s identity in order to make a passable clone? Are you trying to sell that clone?

        A duplication of someone’s voice, commercialized by an unauthorized source, is definitely a form of stealing.

        Copying information illegally, such as private information held on a private device, is overwhelmingly illegal.

        In general, copying information is only as legal as the purpose behind it.

  • modifier
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    1210 months ago

    Sounds like they need better bootstraps.

    Or at least a business model.

    • mozz
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      Honestly this meme is way understating the sinisterness

      • Election interference for money machine
      • Whole internet is ads company
      • Dopamine addiction for all children
      • Superpowers for law enforcement
  • @pyre@lemmy.world
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    6510 months ago

    oh good. then fuck off. who knew copyright law would eventually be the good guy in a story.

  • @endofline@lemmy.ca
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    510 months ago

    Good artists copy, great artists steal. If I think even Steve Jobs mentioned having in mind their visit in Xerox Parc research lab

  • @Thann@lemmy.ml
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    410 months ago

    slaps roof of coffin

    So what would it take to get you in one of these?

  • magnetosphere
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    19810 months ago

    In every other circumstance I can think of, “I can’t make money doing a thing unless I break the law” means don’t do that thing.

    Why should AI get special treatment?

      • @Kalysta@lemm.ee
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        210 months ago

        AirBNB is currently failing. Uber likely will when people catch on to “dynamic pricing”

        • @rottingleaf@lemmy.world
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          1610 months ago

          Now about that fake money for criminals - it was quite useful for me when I needed to send money to my sister, with me being in Russia and her being outside, and it was year 2022. Also with the way ruble sank after the war, buying BTC hours after seeing news of it starting was probably a bargain. Would be twice as expensive the next day.

          I haven’t used Uber (Yandex Taxi) and Airbnb (asocial type and have responsibilities), and I agree about the plagiarism machine.

          • rautapekoni
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            So you didn’t do the crime, but your home country did, and you could use crypto to make life easier despite the repercussions. I’d say it’s not a bad fit.

            • @rottingleaf@lemmy.world
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              210 months ago

              Nah. Arbitrary shit that doesn’t hurt those who did the crime, but does hurt me, is not repercussions. Neither is it a crime to find tools to solve such problems.

          • @Crismus@lemmy.world
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            110 months ago

            Sorry to break it to you, but bypassing sections is a crime. You just proved his point. Sanctions are supposed to make life difficult for the people in sanctioned countries so that those people maybe start doing something to the person causing the problems.

            It may be useful, but it was designed to facilitate criminal payments.

            • @rottingleaf@lemmy.world
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              110 months ago

              Sanctions are supposed to make life difficult for the people in sanctioned countries so that those people maybe start doing something to the person causing the problems.

              Nah. They are supposed to reduce connectivity for everyone except the right people with connections, who deal in shit big enough, like oil, gas etc, but not us serfs and not businessmen who don’t respect their government officials enough to bribe them. This worked especially well in the Iron Curtain times, and it seems there are people nostalgic of that now.

              First, spitting into my soup for something other people did is not going to make me more pissed at them (suppose I already was), it’s going to make me more pissed at those spitting into my soup.

              Second, knowing that Israel isn’t sanctioned, Turkey isn’t sanctioned, Azerbaijan isn’t sanctioned, but Russia is, not being better, makes it extremely hard to believe that those sanctions are meant to solve problems. Even if I didn’t know how they work.

              Third, a country can’t make something a crime outside their jurisdiction.

      • @solomon42069@lemmy.world
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        3010 months ago

        Ah yes, the original unviable silicon valley businesses! I love how they used their VC money to undercut and kill small businesses all over the world.

    • @Hackworth@lemmy.world
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      410 months ago

      The more the original work is transformed, the more likely it is to be considered fair use rather than infringement.

  • @iAvicenna@lemmy.world
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    210 months ago

    Now now, I am sure what he meant was they can’t make enough profit to bring billions for its shareholders