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Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊)
Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊)
@jaredwhite@indieweb.social  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

@Sarahp I can’t stand the companies making the deals with Wikimedia, but if the content's already getting scraped anyway, definitely a good step to get paid fairly for it.

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Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊)
Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊)
@jaredwhite@indieweb.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

@Sarahp I can’t stand the companies making the deals with Wikimedia, but if the content's already getting scraped anyway, definitely a good step to get paid fairly for it.

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Nicole Parsons
Nicole Parsons
@Npars01@mstdn.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

@jaredwhite @Sarahp

Beware of rug pulls with "benefactors".

Once PBS got David Koch on their board, Frontline & Nova rarely aired critiques of Koch Network's anti-democracy activities again.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/05/27/a-word-from-our-sponsor

https://www.pbs.org/publiceditor/blogs/ombudsman/global-warming-koch-and-nova/

https://harpers.org/archive/2014/10/pbs-self-destructs/

https://truthout.org/articles/the-corporate-dictatorship-of-pbs-and-npr/

A visit from #PrinceBonesaw to Silicon Valley in 2018 gave us the AI mess and a tech & fossil fuel axis alliance against democracy.

https://humanrightsfirst.org/library/welcoming-mbs-undercuts-u-s-values-and-security-human-rights-first-warns/

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-06/google-thiel-stand-out-in-saudi-prince-s-silicon-valley-tour
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Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊)
Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊)
@jaredwhite@indieweb.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

@Npars01 @Sarahp yeah, that's always a major concern

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Dave Mc
Dave Mc
@guigsy@mstdn.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

@Sarahp What's the TLDR? AI companies can scrape content for training, but the content is staying human sourced?

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