> No more absurd than US card schemes dictating what I can and can't buy in another country
Philosophically, sure. Practically, no.
America is an economic and military superpower. Washington having influence over its trading partners and military allies isn't unusual. To the extent I can think of something that mirrors the absurdity of this situation, it's American evangelicals running off to Uganda to stone gays.
"...many extreme evangelical groups started to recognize that the fight against LGBTQ+ rights in the United States was a losing battle. These groups then shifted focus to Uganda, which was seen as fertile ground for this anti-gay ideology..."
As you say, network programs activating from a master network management is, of course, the history of Unix. It's ironic to see knee-jerk complaints about it.
This to me is interesting when it comes to free software projects; sure there are a lot of people contributing as their day job. But if you contribute or manage a project for the pleasure of it, things which undermine your enjoyment - cleaning up AI slop - are absolutely a thing to say "fuck off" over.
Sure, but what makes you think they will actually deliver that? There's no honor among spammers. If there's an obvious idea with new tech, 100 sleazy startups will claim to offer it, without even remotely having it.
> AI companies aren't seriously arguing that copyright shouldn't apply to them because "it's bad for business".
AI companies have, in fact, said that the law shouldn't apply to them or they won't make money. That is literally the argument Nick Clegg is using to ague that copyright protection should be removed from authors and musicians in the UK.
If you cared about your privacy, why are you handing all this stuff to Sam Altman? Did he represent that OpenAI would be privacy-preserving? Have they taken any technical steps to avoid this scenario?
Several of the designers I worked with liked him, in as much as he gave them research to back them in their arguments with clients that the site should actually be usable.
It is still one of the high points of my career that I was part of a team that shipped an internet banking application that worked well in the then-current major browsers of IE 6 and Navigator 4, but also worked in Lynx and on a Palm Pilot browser.
We've now degenerated to the point that "engineers" demand Chrome everywhere.
