redwattlebird

Not according to the gen z who I was chatting to. Also, rage quit would have made no sense in that specific context.

Right at the start, there were sometimes the "you wouldn't steal a car" warning about pirating movies but there never has been ads in the middle of whatever you were watching.

This is why I never gave up on DVDs, even though people would laugh. As soon as Prime shoehorned ads in the middle of a show or movie, that's when I cancelled. I'll have to do the same with music and get my iPod battery fixed up if I can.

I know. I was being facetious.

IHNIWTM

My latest one was rq.

I thought it was a typo.

It stands for 'real quick'.

Why privatise though? Or if you do privatise, pass legislation to make data trading illegal unless you pay the person whose data is bring traded or make it outright illegal. Or figure out a way to make the data completely useless. Perhaps banning advertising and marketing or limiting what they can do. So many possibilities for a better future than this.

Heck, I have a tech literate friend who can't handle Linux but I think if you're willing to be tech support like my husband is for his parents, the transition is easier.

Probably the more desirable dystopian future, to be honest.

How about... People are paid as age verifiers. Win, win. More jobs, lower chance of data being stolen, maybe more awkwardness if you came across your partner on the other end of the teleconference call.

Or, how about this, bring back porn theatres. Industry gets paid from ticket sales, you have a ticket person who can ask for ID.

Also, is porn really that damaging to kids? I remember when there were videos circulating from beheadings and that was far more traumatising.

I feel like even those games will be banned if we don't stop them now. My thoughts are that games like 'I am Jesus' is the end goal here.

What does 'democratise art' even mean? It's not like everyone votes for a specific generated AI image.

Anyway, I think what you mean is Socialism, in terms of AI making 'skills' available for everyone.

But it's not. It's stealing your capability to learn and taking it for itself without paying you for your efforts. Every input you use trains the model. Even though you're not creating art, you're still creating a prompt and you should be paid for your labour.

It's already been said by the operators of this massive scam. They can only operate via theft.