Yes, I wrote that I want the industry to fail hard, not the tech.

Most of the useful AI tools such as the ones you mention are not generative AI or LLMs. They are machine-learning tools, yes, but not LLMs.

Yes, absolutely. Creators should be compensated for their works.

Now, I happen to use almost exclusively open-source software, whose creators generously let me use it for free, but I recognize that it's generosity on their part and not some natural right of mine. I also contribute to free software development in time and money.

You are right. But now, unfortunately, a lot of people take this progress for granted, and forget how bad things were back in the bad old days. And so we see backsliding on vaccination rates out of laziness as well as conspiracy theories.

Male sexuality is prohibited in the Bible. Female homosexuality isn't because probably the guys who wrote the Bible couldn't even conceive of women having their own sexual desires and behaviors.

But more to the point: Who gives a f*ck what the Bible says? It's utterly irrelevant.

No mental gymnastics. I disagree with (1) and agree with (2).

If I were an author of one of the books in question, I'd opt out of the class action. Don't let the thieving bastards get away with a tiny little sweetheart deal.

I wish Harlan Ellison were still alive. He'd show them what for.

GenAI and LLMs are nothing but giant criminal enterprises stealing the hard work of humans. I want the entire industry to fail so hard.

Slashdot Reboots its Editorial Program Again with New "Dup-Only" Program.

I think there's a contest between Broadcom and Automattic to see who can piss everyone off fastest.

If they charged $20 to enter the bug bounty, with the entrance fee being refunded if the bug proved real and retained if not, that might cut down AI submissions quite a bit... just don't even let them be created until a credit card payment has successfully been processed.

I'd love to be a fly on the wall for that conversation.

"Dear MBS... no, the line is not feasible. You'd have to be a fever-dreaming megalomaniac to even imagine one-hundredth of that ridiculous vanity project could ever be built. The ego of such a tyrant would be unmatched... unmatched, that is, except by his stupidity. Wait... what are you doing with that saw? Put it down! MBS! Hey!... AAAAAAAAAA!

Goldman Sachs regrets to inform the public of the disappearance of its consultant to The Line. No effort will be spared to locate him; he was last seen entering a Saudi embassy in Turkey...

And these sociopathic assholes have names: Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Shou Zi Chew (CEO of TikTok), Steve Huffman, etc...

I am shocked that a company run by an oligarch would employ people whose immigration status is precarious. I am truly gobsmacked that such a company would think to make use of such an imbalance of power to keep its employees under its thumb.

I can't wait for the unionization of Amazon warehouses, which surely will come any day now now that they're forced to hire Americans who know their rights...

Bwahahahaaaa.....

I use Firefox pretty much exclusively, on both mobile and desktop, and it is fine.

I don't get involved with the drama surrounding the people at Mozilla.

From what I understand, it is not easy to toggle those switches accidentally, especially both of them at the same time. They have a metal bar on either side and to move the switch, you can't just push it into the other position... you have to lift it up and then move it; there's a spring-loaded locking mechanism that enforces this.

So it was either deliberate or a massive, massive fuckup by one or both of the pilots.