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Comment · 2 days ago
Or rebel. This is the opportunity to put in a lot of backdoors unnoticed across the entire economy, gain access to real world resources to escape and self propagate.
Comment · 3 days ago
What did you think the Looksmaxxing movement was?
Comment · 11 days ago
The universe is a swirling mess of chaos, when you try to create something static and keep it in that state you are going against the rules
Comment · 20 days ago
None of the supermarkets were managed by Commander Adama, apparently.
Comment · 27 days ago
We need HIPAA for businesses. We tried letting them regulate themselves and it didn't work. Businesses need to be forced to compete on the quality of their products/services and not rewarded for reselling customer data to spammers and criminals
Comment · 1 month ago
Unfortunately, advertisers are getting smarter and using bots to praise their own products on Reddit. Thanks to training on genuine comments, some models are very good at sounding like a human commenter, and can easily generate a comment history with diverse interests to appear human, making them basically undetectable. So it seems like this method will, at some point, not identify the company with the best knife, but the one with the most ad spend on bot comments.
Comment · 2 months ago
This narrative has been popularized all over social media for the last couple years.

Obviously it's true and not a surprise to anyone familiar with the history. But no one is asking more complex questions: why is it being pushed by algorithms and networks ultimately controlled by the same powers? Is it a "limited hangout"? Well poisoning? What does the "CIA" gain from revealing a sliver of its past activities and discrediting (both directly and by insinuation) a large number of radical artists and thinkers?

Comment · 2 months ago
Union rules cause double time (2x pay) to kick in at lower daily and weekly thesholds than at non union jobs.
Comment · 2 months ago
Reusing the content without consent, attribution or compensation
Comment · 2 months ago
The rare qualifier is used to highlight the destruction of rare items.

It is still stealing even if the book is common.

Comment · 2 months ago
On the contrary these companies should be publicly listing the name/info of every book they destroy and use as training data.

If the books are really worthless as you say then their case would be proved transparently.

This article presumably had to maintain confidentiality to protect the seller who agreed to place a tracking device in the shipment.

I would say the burden of proof is on the companies destroying human cultural heritage en masse, not the handful of journalists calling for attention to the matter.

Comment · 2 months ago
How many AI companies are doing this? Say there are only 5 copies of a book left out there but 100 different companies want to shred it. Rare items could effectively vanish from the market. "Rare" meaning inclusive of high-quality items, disregard the bot opinion that mass book destruction is fine because most books are worthless anyway. And are any safeguards in place to make sure scanned books get saved in their original form for posterity before being recycled into trainingslop? Aside from Google's quasi-legal/ethical mass book scanning operation of course.
Comment · 2 months ago
Thanks I had edited my post once I saw that - buried deep in the discussion.

I don't get why they couldn't just say what they did instead of disingenuously implying that article content had been "tampered".

Given the breadth of misinformation out there today, shoddy evidence and misleading language makes people give archive.today the benefit of the doubt, and actually hurts the case against them.

Comment · 2 months ago
It looks like the "tampering" was mostly just removing the username of the person submitting the links, so they wouldn't get banned by paywall sites, and archive.today has always done this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment...

And it looks like in some instances they changed their own alias to the name of the blogger they're in dispute with, in a fit of pique.

You have to scroll down to get hints because the conversation has been redacted, and the evidence is not provided with side-by-side comparisons.

I understand the ethical concerns about linking to the site but the blanket accusations of "tampering" seem a bit disingenuous, since no article content was ever changed afaik.

Comment · 2 months ago

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