johannesrexx

Got mine from Bookshop.org

I get that nauseous feeling that some posts here are made by Muse itself on behalf of its Meta-loving users.

It's good to see the old country finally coming to its senses.

Flock made the matches (Flock mass surveillance system) and let children (the police) play with them. The result is that citizens get burned.

Exactly. This is a free market economy.

Buyers and sellers come together of their own free will, unencumbered by interfering third parties and exchange money for goods and services.

There are a lot of comments in this thread proposing some kind of interfering in these transactions.

Don't like Amazon or Anthropic digitizing rare books? Then buy them yourself and stop with the kvetching.

If you're using a car to commit a crime we blame the driver not the car.

When there's a gun shooting we don't blame the gun we blame the user.

People commit crimes. They might use a computer, a baseball bat or a hammer. We don't hold the computer, baseball bat or hammer responsible.

The Zon is a data-driven company. Train on its user's data? Of course it would. It can do no less.

It's in the corporate DNA, just like Embrace-Extend-Extinguish is in Microsoft's DNA.

Parents are responsible for their children's upbringing. Not the government.

Let's not ruin it for everybody else with this so-called "age verification" BS. This is all about adding more information to what Meta and Google and Bing already know about Internet users. Information they monetize by selling ads and sharing it with authoritarian governments.

99.99% of people have zero artistic skill.

Those same people feel that they can detect AI-generated works?

Those same people have the audacity to spread their uninformed opinions online?

Those same people are spreading their harmful opinionated content online, actually causing real harm to real artists.

This proves the old adage that opinions are like assholes, everybody has one and they stink.

I've been following David Revoy for years and purchased his Pepper & Carrot books, long before machine learning and large language models got into the hands of unskilled people. He is right to complain.

"The only thing I object to is the facebook association."

!!!Exactly!!!

If Apple comes up with smart glasses then user privacy will be job one. For meta it's all about collecting data to sell ads. Period.