@tante What's interesting me right now isn't the article, it's that it has the exact same set of dialogs that pop up in response to my GPC code that Wired has. The EXACT same.

First the, We saw your GPC code and are complying, followed by the second dialog with the long winded bitch fest about the GPC code and a "Submit Opt-Out Request" button to allow targeted advertising or some shit.

No thanks.

Internet is quickly going fucking crazy.

I don't even know. Just use LibreWolf.

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Like it is only the news industry? These companies are killing all kinds of businesses.

@tante "ChatGPT head Nick Turley wrote ... publishers would face an “existential threat” from commercial products trained on news content that can be used to substitute news providers ..."

this guy is paid royally yet he is utterly incapable of seeing being his nose. how exactly can your AI substitute news providers when it gets its news from news providers ? do you hear yourself talk ? is your brain so cooked that you think that everything happens through digital press releases ?😂

@tante i liked the part where openai admits that their product working as intended would threaten their own supply chain by displacing the labor that creates it, and they keep referring to this as a doom loop, and they just keep on doing it,

(this is probably relevant to anyone working on this sort of system at this scale)

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Reminder of who funds AI in alliance with American tech... the fossil fuel industry.

https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-google-hand-dissident-data-to-saudi-arabia-activists-say-2023-7

https://www.desmog.com/2025/12/11/the-koch-network-is-pushing-trump-to-accelerate-ai-documents-show/

https://qz.com/microsoft-saudi-arabia-east-azure-cloud-region-090126

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdurot/2025/07/17/bill-gates-charles-koch-and-three-other-billionaires-are-giving-1-billion-to-enhance-economic-mobility-in-the-us/

Imagine if these billions of investment dollars had gone to the energy transition instead of being wasted on thwarting green energy?

Like tech plutocrats, oil oligarchs are far too accustomed to getting their wealth through unpaid or underpaid inputs.

https://progressive.org/magazine/the-osage-nation-v-the-koch-brothers-roberts-20240429/

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/07/22/kochland-excerpt-senate-investigation-oil-theft-native-american-tribes-227412/

@tante Scraping the news one year later maybe could be fair use in the intent of the law. If it’s only for training, not theft that is.

But as we can see, copyright in general will always benefit the largest of the ownership class.

There might be a small victory here, but copyright also enables the whole rentier capitalism model. And it will enable a future of techno-feudalism, where you will own nothing and be happy.

@tante i would dare to argue that the unprecedented massive theft of books to feed to ai is the largest theft of labor in human history

@tante interesting that they were willing to use "labor" there instead of "intellectual property", echoing the left critique that it isn't so much about copyright as it is an injury to all workers in the form of a structural disempowerment by appropriation