Full title: Microsoft director called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ while OpenAI head brands ChatGPT an ‘existential threat’ to publishers — revelations come from legal briefs filed in NYT lawsuit

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[–] 26 points 1 month ago

Bubble popping yet? Its hilarious how companies start to change the usual narrative.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    He doesn't know the concept of General Intellect . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_intellect

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    AVAST, ME HEARTIES.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago*

    despite the credibility of the claim coming from a microsoft director..
    it will just be recorded in the history books as an unfortunate injustice.(similar to every other revelation of injustice on wikipedia). its better to make the truth available. ..but it just sits there until someone stumbles upon it. then they go "ooh! thats unfortunate!" and then continue on with their day.

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    [–] 12 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    The people they've hired into these positions either know nothing about how the internet works or they just don't give a shit. I remember this interview from years ago and the fucking CEO of AI at Microsoft thought it was just fine to scrap everything on the web because it's "publicly available".

    People that have ran websites since the beginning have always wanted to protect what they put out there and keep people from stealing their content. It feels like this guy just got some degrees and became CEO without ever being on the internet.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    Literal psychopaths attain the "American dream" easier then people with soul.

    We are to blame as well for believing their curated and psychological manipulative marketing, not just ai, but in general we trade humanity for escapism, and the ability to not have to understand authentic true reality.... Because true reality is uncertain and scary.

    It's like the natural human existential crisis that we all have... The one that old cultures taught us how to deal with, like the lessons of Jesus and the back bones of religions, and native cultures, is exploited for control of humanity. Like we are all in the palm of "evil".

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    And yet, the Internet also created the free culture movement. There has long been a vocal movement on the Internet for making copyright less restrictive. I have long been sympathetic to such; copying is not theft…

    So I don't find that outrageous in isolation, though I do find it hypocritical because Microsoft is otherwise very much not a company in favor of less restrictive copyright, certainly not as far as its own source code is concerned.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    Ai is an existential threat to humanity as a whole. Regardless of how cool or useful it is.

    It's kind of made realize no one actually cares and everyone how the leading cultures of humanity are lost in a narration that isn't authenticly natural... It's psychologically marketed and not natural.

    All of us ...We aren't living our own lifepath that is supposed to be our natural human right. It's almost like we built "hell" on earth.

    It's already here now just in the narration I talked about but soon ai, surveillance, profiling, and ai powered "policing" is building the final cage around our true freedom and "God" given rights of just being human.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    This headline should be eye opening for LLM AI users, regarless of the outcome of this lawsuit.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    And Microsoft certainly never did this...

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