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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many ā€œesotericā€ right wing freaks, but thereā€™s no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iā€™m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged ā€œculture criticsā€ who write about everything but understand nothing. Iā€™m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyā€™re inescapable at this point, yet I donā€™t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnā€™t be surgeons because they didnā€™t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canā€™t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

  • Sailor Sega Saturn@awful.systems
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    Microsoftā€™s AI leader claimed that copyright on the internet can be ignored: https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/ever-put-content-on-the-web-microsoft-says-that-its-okay-for-them-to-steal-it-because-its-freeware

    With respect to content that is already on the open web, the social contract of that content since the 90s has been that it is fair use. Anyone can copy it, recreate with it, reproduce with it. That has been freeware, if you like. Thatā€™s been the understanding, thereā€™s a separate category where a website or a publisher or a news organization had explicitly said, ā€˜do not scrape or crawl me for any other reason than indexing me so that other people can find that content.ā€™ Thatā€™s a gray area and I think thatā€™s going to work its way through the courts.

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      I think even wilder is that he thinks content which has explicitly been labeled ā€œdo not scrape except for search engine indexingā€ is a ā€œgray areaā€ with regards to scraping for AI. Like, thatā€™s exactly what it says not to do!

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      He isnā€™t totally wrong re the unspoken rule, but he forgets the second unspoken rule, that the first rule only applies to human being doing entertainment not corporations trying to make money.

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      Anyone can copy it, recreate with it, reproduce with it

      Ewā€¦ stay away from my content, you creep!

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      Never thought Iā€™d see Microsoft suggest downloading a car, but I should have seen it coming.

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      Hereā€™s the whole thing from that great quote. Sorkin is not a hard-hitting interviewer, but he just asks the incredibly obvious questions and Suleyman swerves and dodges like a MF while pronouncing at him in an English listen-to-me-you-pleb voice.