Greg Knauss
Companies shipping AI treat “the open Web” the same way white settlers treated “the open range” — theirs by self-assigned divine right, to freely exploit as they see fit, the people already there either annoyances to disregard or obstacles to eliminate.
Jun 13, 2024 at 2:18pmIvory for iOS
Show threadmmalcJun 13, 2024

@gknauss
Oh, yes, absolutely.

Scraping content from the internet is just like forcing indigenous people off their homelands onto reservations and massacring them in their thousands.

JFC get over yourself.

#Pioutocracy

Show threadGreg KnaussJun 13, 2024
@mmalc https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/simile
Definition of SIMILE

Definition of 'simile' by Merriam-Webster

Show threadmmalcJun 13, 2024

@gknauss

If you'd simply written, "LLM data-gathering companies demonstrate a breathtaking sense of entitlement" I'd have internally mildly disagreed and moved on.

But you didn't. Out of all the similies you might have made you chose one that is breathtaking in the scale of its crassness, insensitivity, and offensiveness.

Do better.

Show threadJoan AlbrightJun 13, 2024
@gknauss The wild west metaphor is one I've used myself, but this take is even more succinct.
Show threadFlatbush Gardener 🌈Jun 13, 2024
@Lironah @gknauss
AI: Automated Imperialism
Show thread@infosec_jcp 🐈🃏 done differentlyJun 13, 2024

@gknauss

So like the 1990's internet? 👀👀

Show threadJWcph, Radicalized By DecencyJun 14, 2024
@gknauss Also, the way companies like Lime et al treat public space - as if it belongs to nobody, when in fact it belongs to everybody.