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Yes, that.

Conspiracies have been documented enough times that it is totally valid to surmise that there's one in place at any given time, about any given field.

A quick inquiry to google on 'proven conspiracy theories' returned ten results just on google's AI. And it left out Iran-contra -presumably for the sake of brevity.

Sorry, to think there's a conspiracy isn't so whacky and unhinged as people want to make it out to be.

In short -we should have our nose rubbed in something we have no ability to control. Cool.

I'm pretty sure that the pervasiveness and the inability to do anything about it is what the person you're referring to meant by 'exhausting', though I may be projecting what I find exhausting about the topic!

You're missing the forest for the trees. The underlying point is that serious for-real consequences; beyond a slap on the wrist but tangible, real, do not buy your way out of jail consequences need to happen.

Would you feel better had he said "sent to get shived in the shower prison"? The meaning would be the same.

Or is it simply any kind of real description of what prison is like that you object to?

>Make music about UFOs and such, I mean.

Fleetwood Mac, 1975, "hypnotized" comes to mind. As does "Interstellar Overdrive" by Pink Floyd

So yeah. They did.

Same as Instacart more or less, isn't it? Instacart is $99 and includes a Peacock subscription is the only differences I can see.

It's really not, actually. Often I read the comments before the article and getting a head's up that the article is slop is invaluable.

It's not only not 'worse than the LLM prose', it's a community service!

>At what point exactly are those companies going to be held accountable and punished for their irresponsible behaviour and overall disregard and negligence for security and ethics practices?

In this political climate? The fifth of never would be my guess.

That was my first thought too.

The people with money, obviously.

As if AI scrapers haven't already!

So fucking what? Nothing wrong with that. Lighten up, francis.

Considering how quickly poultry and fish go bad, they weren't entirely wrong.

I had Tang every day with lunch when I was a kid. But it was the seventies so there's that ...

Unless you have a practical nuts-and-bolts solution for dealing with the money and connections of orgs such as the Heritage Foundation and the various Tech Oligarchs pushing fascism (e.g. Palintir) your 'resistance' will mean fuck-all, sorry.

The ballot box doesn't matter and the bullet box is irrelevant in the face of ICE and the militarizing of the police force.

There's no getting off this train, whether you surrender or fight changes nothing.

Ya know, this would probably be pointless but if I were a programmer (I'm not -and refuse to be a vibe coder) I'd probably just grab appropriate libraries and make my own replacements for this shit. GLTK+ (?) is an obvious choice to use for recreating mspaint, and to replace notepad -I was told making a simple editor was an excercise they have you do when you learn programming to begin with?

I already replaced the 'solitaire' games suite with pysol running on WSL2 and it's a vast improvement!

tldr -if MS is going to screw us, why don't we mitigate it by using replacements?

It's cute that you seem to think anyone will ever be held accountable ever again. Anyone who's studied history knows what direction this is going to go and the chances of their being a Nuremburg Trail II are very, very slim.

Great advice, until all of the alternatives are driven from the market ala youtube, ala' ebay, etc etc

We are well, well past the point where it's possible to avoid a police state.

>I need to say that corporate consolidation is never good for consumers.

Truer words, never spoken. I'm not sure how exactly this will screw me over -but I do know that it will.

Yes.

No idea.

Linus might want to look over Oracle's reasoning and reconsider the potential legal harm that can come to the Linux kernel from accepting AI code.

NetBSD specifically prohibits AI contributions as far as I'm aware of -and thank god for it!

I'm a simple user so libreoffice (Calcs, in this case) suits my needs -but I'm also not using it for work, either.

This, right here, is the bottom line. Money gets what Money wants.

That's apples and oranges; a better analogy would be if you post a video on youtube that you made yourself, with products you're allowed to use, but happen to overlook that copywritten music is on the radio in the background or on the tv.

How many youtube videos have gone dark over bogus copyright claims over the years? And you think people will overlook what's in AI -when there's over a trillion dollars on the table?

Alternate take; deliberately broken moderation systems and perverse incentives are the biggest source of social media manipulation.

Fix social media, and leave the consumers alone.

Also the firehose of spam will continue regardless of what you do on the consumer end.

Works a treat, I reckon -until the moment comes when you actually want to interact and/or post.

With AI posts and karma farming -not to mention good old-fashioned astroturfing ...how reliable is that, really?

>Back to old school forums

It's the year of Our Lord 2026. Good luck discovering forums that you don't already know about!

Honestly that seems kind of pointless and a waste of time. Might as well work it out by hand if you're going to go through all that effort