FaceDeer

That’s what the copyright cartels want you to believe, sure.

It’s not the case. Rooting for it to become the case is repellent.

And so, exactly as I predicted, we’ve got commenters coming out to defend the poor innocent copyright cartels against those awful people pirating their stuff. Violating sacred EULAs, even, what monsters.

This isn’t a question of “walking it back”, though. There was never anything in copyright law that prohibited analyzing a copyrighted work before. This is an attempt to extend it.

A while back I saw a thread in a piracy community that was cheering some other lawsuit against an AI company for similar reasons, so I wouldn’t bet. The anti-AI sentiment is quite strong in these parts.

And now watch everyone cheer for Sony and Warner to succeed in their lawsuits to extend the grip of copyright. What a timeline.

It’s because these products work. They actually provide value to the users, despite opponents’ insistence to the contrary.

If they’re being used to “chase people down” I don’t think acceptance by the general public is all that relevant.

Never. There’s absolutely no need to use humanoid robots for that, other form factors would be much more efficient.

Bring it, fuckers. We’re calling your bluff.

Utilitarianism is a tricky philosophy, it’s got a lot of sharp edges like this.

Choice is a good thing. Small communites are good. Decentralized is good because then big bullies can’t come in and take your community away. Small size and fragmentation are features, not bugs.

Would be nice if the Fediverse had more of that.

There are three or four different “Technology” communities. But there might as well just be one, it’s the same bubble in each of them.