mjd

I think you are letting your self-interest cloud your view of the situation here, since it is very simple. It is not Greg Egan's job to chase after every person who distributes his work online and ask them to take it down. It is your job, as the would-be publisher, to contact him and obtain permission beforehand.

This is not just what the law requires, it is what ethics and good manners call for. I believe you understand this.

Published without permission and without even identifying the author.

(It was written by Greg Egan.)

Is this published with Greg Egan's permission? It doesn't say, and I presume he would at least want to be credited by name.

Update: Egan confirms that this site is distributing his story without permission.

I suppose it won't help to point out to you that it's fiction, none of it actually happened, no person was ever hurt, and this is nowhere close to ”free speech absolutism”.

Yes, but a democracy isn't stuck with the moron until he dies.

“Work out which three decisions are most urgent” sounds like it is inviting horribly embarrassing mistakes. What will you do if, in three months, it transpires that Claude overlooked an obviously urgent decision, and you didn't notice because you didn't actually analyze or even look at the data?

“laws against providing cloud services without a fee cap” really sounds to me like something that could and should be fixed by the market.

I agree with the GP comment, but your framing of this as “convenience” mininizes the possible gains.

Malaria still kills 600,000 people a year. A person who loses their child to malaria is not “inconvenienced”.

The end reminds me strongly of Ted Chiang's remark that Capitalism is the machine that will do whatever it takes to prevent us from turning it off.

Let that be a warning to the rest of you.

What is the source of your knowledge of French FOI law? Are you already familiar with this topic?

The project was begun in 2017 and the suit was filed in 2019.

But their record of failing to protect data is rock-solid!