The tech billionaires think they’re above the law!

Good work by The Atlantic, the New Zealand Society of Authors and local libraries to draw attention to Meta stealing copyrighted material from Aotearoa to train their AI engines. It’s not just unethical, it's illegal and they need to compensate authors. I’ll keep an eye on their fight though, sadly, I don’t hold out much hope. The current world has become a neoliberal playground.

Letter to Zuckerberg to not use Weeping Angels to train AI
Riley Chance

If you’re looking for: a genius, a thought leader, a transformational change agent or societal visionary, then you’re on the wrong site. Be careful though, as Tarantino’s character in Reservoir Dogs Nice Guy Eddie observed - ‘just because they say it, now that don't necessarily make it fucking so.’

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