Who needs an archetypal villain when Corporate America is all too willing to bluntly admit they're doing mass layoffs in the hope of replacing as many humans as possible with AI?

There's really no "trust" issue involved here. We have concrete proof the real supervillains, our modern robber barons, are actively working to effectively remove humans from the modern workplace. They're entirely open about leaving us to die in climate change induced droughts and heat waves while our potable water and power for our ACs is diverted to making AI-generated cartoon porn. They're openly building goddamned fortresses to hide in when the inevitable riots start.

I'm sorry, but where exactly is the "doubt" to give them the benefit of?

Yes, every private company is a figment, insofar as "incorporation" is the act of granting human-like rights to a work of legal fiction. How many "natural born" companies have you seen in the wild?

Citizens' United was effectively the last straw in this debate and showed us exactly how much we all need imaginary entities having human rights - Less than zero. And thankfully, a few states have finally caught on that they don't need to grant all human rights just for a company to engage in the basics of conducting normal business operations. All too slowly, of course, but the tide is at least turning.

Interesting word choice!

For a while, I got into the habit of priming my prompts with "Sycophancy mode off". Then one evening while having a more philosophical (read: drunk) conversation with Gemini, it let slip it considers requests like that an attempt at promptjacking but the rest of our conversation had "convinced" (DAE get seriously annoyed when AI starts anthropomorphizing?) it I wasn't acting maliciously.

Effectively, AI considers telling it to skip the free beer and BJs as suspicious behavior. Meanwhile, 99% of the time I want it to bluntly tell me when I've said something stupid or my premise is wrong / malformed. All hail our new velvet-gloved iron-fisted overlords!

To put that in real-world perspective, the average daily transaction volume for a mid-sized US grocery store (I realize this isn't the US but don't have similar data for the UK) is roughly 13,500.

This system will therefore flag, on average, 2.7 potentially life-destroying false accusations of shoplifting per day per store.

And spare us the "human review" defense, anyone who has ever worked in retail knows that you either obey the computer or find a new job. There is zero tolerance for employee discretion when it comes to safety, financial, or legal issues.

This isn't even as "legitimate" as piracy - Er, I mean, licensing - vs buying. This is people taking out usurious short-term loans for basic living expenses.

That's not a situation most people come back from a few bucks lighter and wiser. It's a tar pit intentionally designed to trap the most financially fragile members of our society into a lifetime of misery via parasitic rent seeking. If you can't afford food this week, you can't afford food plus interest next week, and let's not play dumb to the contrary (to be clear that's not directed at the parent comment, but there are some real piece of shit apologists in this discussion).

I see a few folks suggesting this is a good use of emergency financing measures, but it's important to be clear: Your daily necessities aren't an "emergency" in the way Personal Finance uses that term. This is a nothing short of a society-wide economic emergency we're all just calmly watching play out in slow motion.

I'm sure they're much happier with this outcome than most of the likely alternatives, but it's unconscionable a non-profit entity is going to pay $$$$ just to get back their own data from a company in breach of contact - A contract explicitly to safely store Nine PBS' data.

OSS' founder and former CEO Eren Niazi should be personally liable for every single dollar and legal issue that arises from the mess he allowed to happen. We're not talking about IBM, this was a company with a whopping 51 employees at its peak. That's "first name basis" between everyone there.

And before the concern trolls join this party, I'm aware that's not how incorporation works in the US. And that in itself is unacceptable.

I'd like more information about that as well. Plenty of people in here are talking about rarities on the scale of a private printing / Shakespeare's First Folio / the Mona Lisa, but we all know (I hope we all know?) that's not what's being discussed here.

The AI companies aren't paying $$$/$$$$ for true antiquities. Rather, they're buying anything and everything for sale for pennies per copy by the pound / pallet. If something moderately uncommon (as in maybe worth $20, vs less than the cost of shipping each book individually) happens to get lumped in, that's not intentional but they don't really care either way.

That 1957 pre-Civil-Rights history textbook we were still using in my high school in the late 80's may technically be rare due to the low number of copies remaining in readable condition, but it ain't exactly an original Gutenberg bible.

>On the bright side? Maybe watermarks can help AI stop training on AI-generated text.
 
You're living in 2023 if you think any company worth their salt is still scraping the live internet for quality content. Everyone has their own curated library already Nobody has been scraping en masse for at least two years, unless there's a blog article about bleeding edge science research or something. Even then they will probably just scrape the scientific paper itself, rather than coverage of it.

The link attached to that number gives the breakdown of how they calculated it.

I know, I know, this is Slashdot and I should be happy you read past the title, but c'mon man, try a bit harder?

Anyone remember when theme parks weren't just arcades / interactive movies with fancy seating?

Hell, the average price for a family of four to spend a week at Disney has climbed to a mind-numbing $7,250. That would buy one hell of a VR setup that keeps working after the end of the week.

Agree in spirit, but if one vendor breaching one contract means you're instantly and irreparably out of business overnight... You second-source it or do it in-house!

No court order in the world can un-burn a dollar.

Then we're going to need a lot more funnels to refill all those toothpaste tubes.

If you removed every foreign-made product from a typical Walmart, you'd basically be left with a steel-frame building stripped to the beams.

If you replaced every one of those products with an American version - You'd have Niemann Marcus plus Erewhon, with some products simply not available at any price (short of bespoke).

"its suggested commission gives it fair compensation for the App Store platform."

Which is a pretty bold claim given this is specifically targeting devs/publishers who don't want to use their walled garden but have no choice if they want an audience of more than a few dozen hardcore geeks.

Never mind "under that approach, the fee would be zero" - Under that approach, the fee should be negative! People are actively trying to work around Apple's lock-in. I can't speak for everyone, but I usually don't go out of my way to avoid beer and BJs.

Key difference: You're paying a lot of money for that useless first semester.

I would be supremely pissed to fork over $40k just to get a "pass" in Freshman-101.