Perplexity is now crying because their plagiarism machine cannot bypass Cloudflare's firewall. How about you start paying for stealing others' content to train your shity AI?

Perplexity Says Cloudflare Is Blocking Legitimate AI Assistants https://www.searchenginejournal.com/perplexity-says-cloudflare-is-blocking-legitimate-ai-assistants/552927/

There is no Legitimate LLM or AI if takes all content without permission and these companies sell their services for money. It is stealing. Plain and simple.

Capitalism isn't freedom. It isn't trade. It isn't competition. It isn't the rule of law. It isn't markets. It isn't the absence of a centrally-planned economy. It sure as fuck isn't democracy.

Capitalism is capital being in charge. It is the organization of society around the interests of capital, which are further consolidation and the generation of profits.

Anything positive you associate with capitalism is an accident of history.

How is it that within 10 minutes of the Online Safety Act, Ofcom is investigating 34 porn sites, yet in 30 years of disability legislation in the UK there hasn't been a single instance of case law for websites or apps because the EHRC has signally failed to support people with disabilities even when there is a strong case to be made? 😩

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y2xx6z6eko

The UK gov look like complete digitally illiterate idiots. The disaster of huge VPN uptake as a consequence of ill thought out simplistic age verification policy in the UK is stupid beyond credibility. We ARE led by donkeys. I said a while back that AI policy (in HE, and at national level) is being made by ppl who don't even know what a VPN is to indicate level of naïve ignorance. Now we know just how true that is.

#ukpol #ageverification #digitalliteracy #academia #academicchatter