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Ethan MarcottePersonally, I doubt even a tenth of the linked post is true. But as a statement of intent — not least about the value of labor, and the humans who do it — it’s pretty vile stuff.
don’t think about the amount of cash this “company” has on-hand and what else it could’ve been used for don’t think about the amount of cash thi
Erik Vorhes
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christa@beep I learned about it through this post this morning hah https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXIwS1IgZGl/
JP
Stephen Farrugia@beep the blog post, on their own site, has lines like:
"Another ironic book selection was Steal Like an Artist (context: Luna is powered by Claude from Anthropic, a company that recently paid $1.5B in settlement over using copyrighted books for training their AIs)."
this is probably llm slop they couldn't even bother checking
Jason Garber@beep As a second-order matter, I don’t regret unsubscribing from Kottke’s website. Yeesh.
Cory Dransfeldt 
@beep Yeesh.
“Another ironic book selection was Steal Like an Artist(context: Luna is powered by Claude from Anthropic, a company that recently paid $1.5B in settlement over using copyrighted books for training their AIs).”
“Haha the tech we use is built on theft.”
@beep we've already known "bullshit retail with zero organic business that can fund itself indefinitely" has been automatable for a few decades now.
this is a PR stunt obviously, they're going to create whatever coverage suits them and carefully avoid mentioning any of the things it fucks all the way up / doesn't do / can't do, and it's already a foregone conclusion that they will declare it a success when they shutter it. 100% tech bro self fart sniffing exercise adding nothing to the world.
this is a PR stunt obviously, they're going to create whatever coverage suits them and carefully avoid mentioning any of the things it fucks all the way up / doesn't do / can't do, and it's already a foregone conclusion that they will declare it a success when they shutter it. 100% tech bro self fart sniffing exercise adding nothing to the world.
Denis 
Carlana 
@beep The WSJ had the stunt snack kiosk that got robbed blind by its staff. I'm sure this will go about as well.
Jason Lefkowitz