Some of the richest agents in Hollywood are shopping for lawyers & a country to take FB/Meta to the cleaners in. Given Meta is everywhere & some countries hate it [Bonjour France!] it should all be great fun. In the old days copyright was a central pillar of the international rules based order*
The French Luxury goods market is huge with an estimated €25B. All that luxury relies on originality & human skills from ideas, to planning, to creating to marketing - whether a Dior gown, a Chagall Exhibit or a Cartier necklace. France is not impressed with its natural talent being stolen by AI
I’m looking forward to the French forcing all these AI pirates to pay compensation & retrospectively ask permission. That’s how copyright works. The AI business is the theft of the thoughts & creation of all humans to make a few corporate jokers billions in gambling.
Next time when you read a govt department or a mortuary will be improved by AI, you will know three things. 1. They won’t improve 2. Someone, somewhere just sold London Bridge 3. This is not a place to spend eternity.
And a special shout out to the supposed ‘Resistance’ - stop with the AI memes. They’re really bad graphics & no one other than grassroots Dems read them. The biggest users of AI are the far right, political parties & the media. AI is for losers. People with no ideas.
Ugh ty for mentioning how ugly they are - it seems to have gotten lost but my god they are so bad and scammy
When the govt gets AI, the only thing improving is my nap time. No one's selling this cat's bridge, phew.
The only jobs AI can replace without a significant dip in quality are right wing journalism- it’s all written to the same formulae, same talking points & nothing has changed since the ‘30s. The NYT & London Times must be buying some big servers rights now…
I want AI to clean my house and do my laundry while I create artwork and write essays.
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Horrible. It is taking abuse to a whole new level. As a senior I use chat gpt to find out facts, to help me use my phone and i pad. Would there be a way to regulate it to use it in a non harmfull way?
I wish them the best of luck and pray for their success!
If only there were ppl with enough star power to drive a movement to boycott Meta. If one post could break the internet about an impending divorce (you say engagement I say pre-divorce party) then image how it could be used to topple an oligarchy. If only.
A country is committing a ‘plausible genocide’ & countries are trying to make boycotting it illegal. If dead babies don’t move people, FB is safe.
You underestimate the stupidity of ‘Merica
We used to think of technology - and those who were developing it for public use - as a positive thing that was going to promote greater equity, support social connection, promote democratic ideals, etc. But it has created a new class of tech-oligarchs, who want to use it to surveil and control ALL.
I didn’t, so I’m not sure why you say ‘we’. Also all those things you thought, only American media & commentators seemed to think that stuff too. From Europe it’s always looked like $$$
OK, but 'we' is simply a generalizing term to indicate that this was a widespread POV in the early days of tech development, and are you saying that no-one in Europe thought that technology was going to promote greater equity, support social connection, promote democratic ideals, etc...?
Go get meta!
Bro, they're already shopping for a summer chateau. This settlement will be massive.
I hope they fucking crush Meta. Can’t happen soon enough.
That’s not going to happen.
Please sue them out of existence. Be the hero the Hulkster (Peter Theil really, but) was NOT when he ruined online journalism.
In a libertarian world, there's nothing such as copyright. Meta's ethics, like Amazon's or any other techbro company BTW, is all about bending the law to their needs. That's why they're supporting Trump : he can give them what they want. Including land to build their libertarian-Darwinian dystopia.