It’s easy to deny it’s built on stolen content and difficult to prove. And AI companies know this, and have gotten caught stealing shitty drawings from children and buying user data that should’ve been private

Deal, I’ve got plenty of small hobby projects that can use some!

Oh dang, how long until some company just feeds their entire codebase into an llm and calls it documentation?

It’s not about consent. No one is suggesting rape

It’s different from person to person. The most consistent thing I’ve found is people trying to fit each other into a cultural box

I can name a few examples of this

You ok?

Oh nice!

Nop, they’re just autistic and an a bad person. Although not related, those two can happen at the same time

It’s usatoday, to be fair

They don’t.

Sometimes I do, sometimes I don’t. But they feel good if I take an interest, and them feeling good matters to me. So I do listen to stuff that I don’t care about sometimes.

But also, I wanna know hoe they’re doing and whether they’re okay. I’ll gladly distill that from a bunch of irrelevant info. Bonus’ I can make them more happy by asking how their [something] went/is.

You managed to get an ai to do 200 lines of code and it actually compiled?

we hope to clarify that online claims such as remote disabling of printers, mandatory subscriptions, or unauthorized monitoring of printed files are completely false

Then why call home for permission at all?

I figured this company was sketchy when their first few printers had some unusual cloud dependencies. Looks like I did the right thing avoiding them for it

I’ve tried a bunch but found almost all the bottled fizz I can buy to be quite bitter. I own one of those carbon sifon things now. Probably better known as sodastream in the Americas