The secret ingredient is ~~crime~~ legislative, judicial, and regulatory capture.
this post was submitted on 02 Feb 2024
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User shared their Netflix password with a friend, RIGHT TO JAIL!
Have copyrighted music play when your phone rings while streaming? Believe it or not...jail.
Delivery guy catches a moment of a pay per view you bought, also jail
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This notion that big companies have is just ludicrous. They come up with whatever business model that obviously cannot work in the long run but then see it as their right that society make it work for them.
Oh, and put OpenAI on the slave labor list as well
OOTL, why should OpenAI be on the slave labor list?
The pay and the TASK, holy fuck, being exposed to images and content that most people can't take in even small doses, and with NO therapy options. Horrible.
Oh crap.
There's been recruitment here in the Philippines for similar AI training tasks with very little pay, too. But that thing in Kenya is much much worse.
I took on a music-related task out of curiosity and I got these recruitment emails after
Holy shit those are absolutely abysmal rates for the amount of (potentially psychologically scarring) work you'd have to do. wtfff
A business that cannot operate without breaking the law is a criminal organisation and should be treated as such.
If a corporation has legal rights as if it were a person, why aren't they punished like everyone else?
We execute people for committing multiple murders. A corporation can kill hundreds or thousands of people with their pollution or their emissions or whatever else they are doing to skirt regulations and get slapped with a fine far smaller than their profits.
Because, like wealthy people, wealthy corporations just get a slap on the wrist rather than be made an example of.
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France farmers protests see 79 arrested as tractors snarl Paris traffic https://lemmy.world/post/11442916
breaking environmental laws
criminalize wage theft
More than a year after leaving my job, I got a letter from them... and I initially thought it was some kind of scam. Why would I think that? Well, because it was a check for about $1k. They had apparently miscalculated overtime/differentials during the height of the pandemic (when I worked myself to the bones in an indescribable, fearful/stressful environment), so they owed money to almost everyone who worked during that time.
~$1k for just me. It was a hospital. In a capital city of the US. I don't even have an estimate of how many of us hourly's were working then... RN's, RT's, CNA's, LPN's, PT, OT, Security, Housekeeping? Let's just imagine an extremely low number of employees for the hospital, like 500.
If $1k was held for 500 employees over a year, you're telling me they got to profit/sit on $500,000 for over a year? What's the interest on that? And I'm low-balling this number to a huge extent.
It's like, "Whoopsies, we didn't pay y'all enough at the time, but it's cool because we recouped most the loss anyway over the past year". They hedged their profits by stealing wages is how it seems to me. "Oopsie daisy, we had an error; But don't worry cause here's your pay a year later". Cool cool cool, no worries friend. Didn't need it anyway
How is there a special category of theft that isn't criminal?
Don't forget about Meta somehow committing mass copyright infringement of books but playing the 'information should be free but only for this specific instance of rocketing our AI training' bullshit.
Open AI uses mechanical Turk, which is the closest you can get to slave labor while still technically paying somebody, except for prison labor I guess.
Yup...I've had the displeasure of being on that thing for a few months some years back. I couldn't shrug the feeling of feeling like a sweatshop worker. "Ah yes, do these menial tasks that'll take you 40 minutes of your time to earn...5 cents! woo!"
I always assumed that shit only made sense if you were living in a place with very low cost of living when paid in US dollars.
It doesn't pay nearly enough as a good source of income.
There's a very stingy and narrow set of requirements you have to meet before you see or even do dollar-amount tasks.
If you're docked by a single 'Requester' aka your micro-bosses on there, then your chances slip.
So, I can't recommend Amazon Machine Turk to anyone. Only do it for beer money. Don't do it for a living income.
They originally paid Nigerians a pittance to look at horrific material all day to weed it out of the training and gave them very little in terms of mental health treatment for them.
Elon Musk: "I can't make money if I can't torture and kill humans. It's the next logical step from all the other animals I have tortured and killed"
Also Musk: I managed to set the GDP of Paraguay on fire when I was high, and now my job has to give me more or I'll cry.
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You know I think it's kind of funny that there's such a tendency towards monopoly and power centralization in business, in order to "maximize efficiency", when the main argument in favor of the free market, as I see it, is in favor of competition and innovation. It's just funny that the competition doesn't actually exist, and the innovation only comes about in the form of evergreened to shit intellectual property that further enforces a lack of competition.
their copes always revolve around with "but it's actually the GOVERNMENT'S fault that we have monopolies and if we didn't have all these LAWS like PATENTS and MINIMUM WAGE and REGULATIONS destroying SMALL BUSINESSES then we'd have a TRUE COMPETITIVE MARKET!" ignoring exactly what causes the government to be able to get to that point in the first place (spoiler alert: companies buy the government out, it's inevitable in poorly-regulated capitalism)
source: me, regrettably a former libertarian "anarcho"-capitalist
We don't have minimum wages here in Sweden. It's regulated by negotiations between worker unions and companies. And the companies fucking hate it so much. Which is so funny because the government isn't involved. It's a free market, only the workers are part of it, and companies find that "totally not cool dude!"
We also have rent control functioning in a rather similar way, landlord unions and the tenant union negotiates rent increases on a yearly basis, and the landlords hate it. They're actually free to raise the rent however they please, but the tenant union can take that to the rent court (or whatever it's called) and if the increase is found to be unsubstantiated they'll have to pay back the tenants.
I think that's a solid model for democracy, but obviously companies hate it.
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I'm a fan of capitalism, but it NEEDS heavy regulation to ensure competition. The playing field is not naturally level. Left to its own devices, the market insists on consolidation and monopoly.
I have a rough idea of the best way to do capitalism: if a company in a standard industry reaches monopoly (or oligopoly) stage, congratulations. You've won. The government should buy all your stock at above market rates, all the employees including the CEOs should get massive payouts. Huge taxpayer funded party. Golden parachutes for everyone. Giant bonuses to all of their contracted labor. And then the company or companies should be broken up into tiny pieces, assets sold off, all intellectual property revert to public domain, and leadership banned from pursuing business in that industry for a period of time.
I've seen that idea before, it's not a bad one. I think there should also be the option to make it public in case it's become a service that can only really work if centralised and is beneficial to the population. I'd still rather move to an entirely different system but if we have to keep capitalism something like this would be nice.
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All companies: We can’t make money unless we make you subscribe to everything.
Only if they're black.
The Nextdoor posts about shoplifting and executing thieves is fucking bananas. And the stories they always share are always black folk.
Fortunately, nextdoor is a Karen cesspool and I'd rather keep them contained there.
I was on Nextdoor for a little while until I realized it was literally nothing but griping. Even the stuff that has nothing to do with Karen racist bullshit is just griping, mostly about other people's properties and how they are offensively not arranged in whatever way the complainer wants them to be.
Then I can't be assed to use Amazon.
Is sampling and analyzing publicly available data and not storing it considered stealing?
I'm not defending anyone here, but that's just weird. It's also weird to take a meme seriously, but w/e.
Public data still have licenses. Eg, some open source licences force you to open source the software you created using them, something OpenAI doesn't do.
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You can't use someone's work for whatever you want just because it's publicly accessible.
I'm actually still not sure how I feel about this.
I can use books to learn a new language. AI can use texts to learn their kind of language in a sense.
I'm not sure where the limit is or should be though.
Hasn't web scraping been done for like forever, though? How is this any different? You get publicly accessible information and you derive data from it. You're literally not stealing anything or storing it as-is.
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