it won’t be much better in the US if the government has their way. age verification, blocks on porn sites, restrictions on VPNs, this is all stuff that’s been done or is currently being done. it’s a slippery slope that’s only going to get worse until the internet is an experience that is carefully curated by the current administration.

tankies will see this and still say with a straight face say that China isn’t imperialist

Copilot is just like me!

The thought process is I don’t pay for things I can get for free.

How’s that working out for you, chief?

it’s working fine. thank you.

the argument you are using enables corporations to steal the work and labour of individuals.

so your problem is with capitalism, and not this fictional “theft” of art.

It is the argument that means only middle class wealthy individuals get to make art.

nobody is stopping anyone from making art.

It’s a shite argument, and it’s been debunked a ton of times.

if that makes you sleep better, then you do you. I don’t really mind if some liberal I’ll never meet wants to claim nonsense that’ll never affect me on the internet. ideas are free, they belong to everyone, and I’ll keep copying and using digital media in whatever way I want.

Well I could have said your post history shows the intellectual subtlety of a three year old child with a sledgehammer, but I don’t like making fun of stupid people when it isn’t their fault they were born idiots.

If only there was some kind of solution to be found.

Says the slopper :slopper:

I know exactly what it means, I was using it sarcastically to make fun of your rather stupid argument.

All AI companies are criminal operations.

Even if someone is being gracious enough to allow you the argument that copying is theft, which it is most assuredly not, it wouldn’t make anything a “criminal operation” because, by law, it isn’t a crime. It is a civil offense.

But surely something has to be said for taking ones work, repackaging it, claiming it’s yours, and selling it as a product, no?

sure, and that something is that copyright and intellectual property is capitalist nonsense. nobody “owns” ideas, and the only ethical issue with AI is that nothing should ever be sold, whether it’s made with AI or not.

here’s another pithy, cliched statement for you. copyright and intellectual property is capitalist nonsense that should be ignored. ideas can’t be owned. what’s yours is mine, and what’s mine is yours. nobody owns any media. the only ethical issue with AI is that nothing should be sold, whether it’s made with AI or not.

you don’t need a subscription to use bittorrent.

piracy isn’t theft.

The game was trash on the PC, and they thought that downgrading it to a console was going to make it playable?

much like his wax figure, his AI chatbot also seems more human than he does

Oh sorry, can you not read? We can read it for you if that’s the case.

I’m just imagining the millions of taxpayer money that they are going to waste running around trying to enforce this. 🤣

Why would every journalist focus on the Epstein files? You do know there are other things going on in the world, right? And since the Democrats don’t intend on holding anyone in the files accountable anyway, even if they retake Congress, what exactly are you hoping a journalist is going to accomplish?

That much? Wow how generous of the corporate overlords.