Robert F. Smith, CEO of Vista Equity Partners, told attendees [...] 60% of the 5,500 finance professionals present will be "looking for work" next year due to AI
Smith said, clarifying that while jobs won't disappear entirely, they will fundamentally transform.
"You're going to lose your job.... oh but not really."
AI Firms Say They Can't Respect Copyright
Pretty sure it's not really up to them, legally.
And their response: "Who cares about legality - that's for the courts to settle, after you spend money you don't have suing us."
AI Firms Say They Can't Respect Copyright.
They say that because they're fucking liars.
They only want to serve their real customers, which is their (potentially future) investors/shareholders - they don't give a shit about anyone else, including those that ever produced the content their models have been trained on (the models which wouldn't have any use without that content exiting to begin with).
I'd feel so much better about the direction of things if we had only proven our collective stupidity twice.
You give us too much credit.
You're right, I should've said "at least twice in recent history".
Sebby the Rapist
Ah yes, Slashdot's favourite clueless, spineless fuck as always trying to deflect its role as a privacy rapist in its capacity as a Meta[stasize] employee.
They got caught activating your microphone and listening to you a while back too. Facebook is not an advertising company they are a data aggregator that sells data.
Hence the reason they should be referred more accurately as "privacy rapists".
What I find funny is everyone knows these huge corporations are evil and plan on doing bad things to you and it's not controversial to say that.
Referring to them as what they truly are ("privacy rapists") would align the optics better.
It's because Americans have no nuance.
Because Americans are stupid. They've proven that twice now.
But, I have multiple browsers -- because every browser company thinks they know what is best, not all sites render properly and Google of course changed things so that uBlockOrigin won't work, etc.
I've always said: if it doesn't run uBO, it's not a real browser.
Know, too, that even if you don't have Meta apps on your phone, and even if you don't use Facebook or Instagram at all, Meta might still harvest information on your activity across the web
Meta[stasize]: the world's biggest privacy rapist.
like every single other business in the world.
like every single other large public abusive businesses in the United States.
There FTFY.
In the past, studio aggressively went after builders for any Mustang that even remotely approximated Eleanor, making it a hassle to restomod classic Mustangs.
They pulled the same kind of bullshit in the past for any website that mentioned "Jaguar" - even websites that was exclusively about the animal, an nothing automotive.
the community transformed from a welcoming space for developer interaction into what the author compares to a "Stanford Prison Experiment" where moderators systematically culled interactions they deemed irrelevant
Translation: they started power trippin'. Enshittification ensued.
The only proof here is that these companies are way overvalued.
That does sometimes happen, but the non-'answers' are downvoted or deleted quickly, so they don't pollute the site.
Net effect is the same: whatever useful information that remains is presented in the wrong context (as "comments" instead of "answers", or vice-versa), due to arbitrary silly restrictions.
I honestly never have understood why someone takes time out of their schedule to belittle people on sites with non-answers to questions.
Very often with these question-answer sites (or, really, any discussion forum - I remember running into this in my newsgroups days) people simply get annoyed at the question being merely asked (like, do they expect everyone else hanging around are as knowledgeable as they are??), and instead of answering the actual question and asking any follow-up questions for additional context that may have been left out of the original question (to perhaps offer an alternative answer later), simply lash out with "RTFM" style non-answers, either outright aggressively, or in a passive-aggressive manner (or by using some other subtle but "polite sounding" jabs that are meant to insult).
I've been a victim of these, but I've also been witness to others doing it. In both cases, it always annoys me enough to not bother hanging around any further (as I'm sure many others also do), which typically results with the place being a swamp of trolls ready to pounce on unsuspecting newbies (Apple's "discussion forums" come to mind).
4. They're also licensing Stack Overflow content to AI companies for training their models.
So I guess now we'll start getting condescending answers to our prompts, thanks to SO's "data"?
Prompt: I need to know how to use curl to fetch a website's page.
Answer: Did you RTFM, idiot?
Uncompensated overtime? Just Say No.
