• "Alright guys, it’s time to leave Slack for a better alternative!"
  • Proceeds to migrate to yet another proprietary and centralized piece of software.
  • It happens again.
  • "Alright guys, it’s time to leave [insert software name here] for a better alternative!"
  • It happens again, again.
  • Clown moment.
  • It’s what’s going to happen. It’s what always happens. And on a side note, by the way, I guaran-fucking-tee you that it’s what’s going to eventually happen with Discord as well. I have zero doubt about it.

    At this point, I think the genie is out of the bottle. I feel like unless you’re on some p2p encrypted chat, anything typed into the internet is getting scraped. I’m sure everyone at this point has had at least one comment scraped and used for language model stuff.
    To be honest, if someone thought that public things on the internet are not getting scraped, I am not sure what to tell them… Search engines have been doing it since the beginning of search engines, it is no wonder that the same would be done to train AI.
    Corporations are bad and yet still follow laws (in the west). The bigger issue is state actors. Especially the non-democratic ones.
    I honestly don’t get the outage over that. I feel like I’m in the minority on that, though. I don’t care if linguistic statics are gathered from my public comments. Knock yourself out.
    It’s not no matter what. It’s under the system we have they are not only not punished for doing so, they are heavily incentivized to do so. There are ways to punish bad actors that de-incentivize other potential bad actors, our politicians actively choose to prioritize these bad actors ability to do harm over the well being of the population.