They ingested some public domain photos and then went after people who used them, including the girl who released her photos as public domain. She lost her case because she had given up her license (long ago, before the days of the Creative Commons, which may have helped her). Getty should NOT have gone after people who used public domain photos, but a lawyer I talked to said Getty did add value in some ways by adding tags and search. There was some talk of adding license information to each asset so the enforcement teams wouldn't go after stuff that was imported from the public domain, but I don't know if that was ever implemented. (disclosure: former Getty contractor)

I worked for GettyImages for a year and a half on their asset management team doing Scala development in Seattle. It was honestly one of the most technologically advanced teams and companies I had ever worked with. If they decided to move from platform x to y, it would be done in 3 months, where other shops would take three years. All our services had full unit tests. We confidently pushed out releases and breakage/outages were rare. The platform team was 11 people and they were all amazing; able to roll out incredibly well designed changes in weeks long before the LLM era.

There was still tech debt in the company (I was tasked with fixing someone's shitty 1,000 line Perl script because there was a whiny little bitch on another team who refused to point to our new thumbnail server cluster which did everything their shitty script did, but in real time). But overall, the tech debt was far lower than any other place. We had a Principal Engineer who gave up a job at NASA to work at Getty.

I did have trouble with some of their copyright trolling issues, but even the lawyers I talked to there had some interesting arguments for various court cases I brought up, which really made me think.

Kinda sad they're at this point. Technologically, they were very far ahead, and I learned a lot while I worked there.

I'm blame the millions fucking retards that will buy this thing unironically who are actively making things worse for the 1%~2% of us that de-google our phones, self-host as much as possible and don't have big social networking accounts.

At some point we won't be able to say "I won't participate." My current company didn't understand why I couldn't use Microsoft Authenticator. I had to send them the screen shot of it crashing with a message about how Google Services were required. It's like owning a stick shift (no family member will ask to borrow your truck because they literally can't drive it). I have a viable excuse to not install company shit on my person devices without being an asshole about it. At the same time, I've seen an increasing number of job applications that require a LinkedIn profile URL! I thought about deleting LinkedIn years ago when I deleted FB/Twitter/Insta, but I would have trouble applying for jobs today if I did.

A time is soon coming where it will be impossible for someone seeking a Wal-mart or fast food job to even apply for it without owning a smartphone.

If that's a Jonestown reference, you should do some research on that. Jim Jones was deeply connected to the CIA, including doctors that were a part of the MK Ultra program. It's very likely that no one "Drank the Koolaid." I think once that Congressman discovered what was really going on, the intelligence operatives just shot everyone and claimed they committed mass suicide. The aid to that congressman who survived had this statement:

https://www.cia.gov/readingroo...

> Except it sure looks like about an order of magnitude more Rs have been there than Ds

Bill Clinton was a Republican? I feel like you missed the whole point: THERE ARE NOT TWO PARTIES! It's the same play and the same script. You missed the whole damn point dude. Both of them are NOT YOUR SPORTS TEAM! You failed the test.

This seems like complete and total bullshit; a story pushed for you valuation. I don't believe anything coming out of that lying scumbag organization.

and they're still both bad. ORANGE PEDO BAD or BLUE PEDO GOOD is so old and fucked up by now. The divide is intentional by the script writers for both parties. They both have the same strings, or similar enough strings, that the differences are marginal - often trivial and intentional. The most radical political stance to have as an American today is to reject both parties. They've all been to the Island.

The dependence on "AI" is the danger because it's incredibly stupid, and officers are not very smart. They need solid foundational training to favors innocence. They do get a lot of that, and it's almost always bad laws that lead to these situations (including the entire war on drugs).

Flock is a big problem here because it is clearly violating the 4th amendment. You can say "they're in public" and sure .. that's true. But when you start doing deep analytics automatically on everyone in "public," it's more than just a CCTV to keep a record or someone taking a photo of people walking through the park. It becomes indexed and searchable: surveillance. That's illegal search, which in this case lead to illegal search and seizure.

Gun sale records are not allowed to be indexed and searchable by name (they can be by a gun store. But if they go out of business and send an Excel spreadsheet in to the ATF, it has to be printed out and stored on paper or microfilm).

I hope this woman gets at least a million after taxes and legal fees for this fuck up. I hope the woman from TN gets a few million for her six months of detention in North Dakota. TN should have never remanded her. Both states failed to protect the people in that case. She lost her fucking house!

You realize the vast majority of those Islamist extremist groups were created by a combination of the CIA, MI6 and Mossad, right? The CIA literally installed the government in Ukraine (Victoria Nuland's famous "fuck the EU" phone call), all the way down to putting a literal comedian/actor into the election cycle (Zelenskyy was literally in a comedy sitcom in Ukraine about a comedian who ran for president, Stephen Colbert style, and then got elected. It's the only sitcom that was cancelled because it became true).

This is by METR, a company that's directly connected to Antrhopic, OpenAI and even weirder people like Effective Altruism (EA) started by Sam Bankman-Fried of FTX fame and his super weird scrawny girlfriend.

I've seen this report before and it's NOT independent. It's written by people connected to pushing the regulatory capture narrative.

Could it be 100% true? Maybe, but I have serious doubts. It's much more likely this is a carefully orchestrated propaganda piece. I don't trust any of these people, and it's the people who are really at issue, not the weighted predictive text generators.

How many times to they keep spewing this bullshit? Was the Huggingface hack even real? This is all about regulatory capture and preventing startups coming into this space, or banning open weight models. They're definitely not pausing model research because they never have before in the past. They is about Dario and Altman making sure they're the dominant competitors in this entire space.

No democrat thinks like that. I'm not team blue, red or orange. I think we should get rid of the entire pedophile-class that's protected by the current walls of Hollywood and Congress. The left/right divide is a lie; a psychological operation. It's not "both sides are the same," it's that there ARE NO SIDES. Congress and intelligence agencies are propagandists, using TV, news and media to create sides that pit Americans against one another over stupid bullshit instead of paying attention to the pedos behind the curtain like Hillary Clinton's sex trafficking NGOs in Hati or Mr. Orange's "I've never had the privilege of going to the Island" who hosted Epstein multiple times in Mar-a-Lago.

Such coordinated efforts by so many big tech companies might seem like a good thing in regards to security, but this honestly scares the fuck out of me. Sure they can take down a phishing cite (honestly a lot of those people deserve what they got; they clicked on the link or executed the code). But what about legitimate and legal websites where people just say things others don't like? I've written about this before:

https://battlepenguin.com/poli...

https://battlepenguin.com/poli...

> We know it was just basic incompetence

I don't think so. I think it was intentional malice. Just blame it on AI is straight up bullshit, but make no mistake .. it makes no difference if the Blue Pedo or the Orange Pedo is in charge, both of them were elected President of the United States of Israel and America murders people for that tiny slice of Earth whose leaders care not for any of humanity.

Huh that's weird. I never had a phone number associated with my account, but I did have the messenger app for aw quite a while. I just went in and deleted it back in 2001. I'm sure they probably still retained a lot of my data, but I've personally never looked back:

https://battlepenguin.com/phil...