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.

@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

Definition of SIMILE

Definition of 'simile' by Merriam-Webster

@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.