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The secret ingredient is
crimelegislative, judicial, and regulatory capture.Enemies inside the gates.
User shared their Netflix password with a friend, RIGHT TO JAIL!
Have copyrighted music play when your phone rings while streaming? Believe it or not…jail.
Delivery guy catches a moment of a pay per view you bought, also jail
Didn’t drink a verification can? Automatically straight to Jail
Breathed the fresh air that is exclusive to the rich? Do not resist the jail
I used my phone on Netflix and they acted like I’m a fucking criminal. Had to prove that it’s my phone. They’re like “omg you used a different WiFi network than your TV!” Which actually isn’t true at all.
Movie web doesn’t do that when I go to watch Netflix shows for free, just saying
This notion that big companies have is just ludicrous. They come up with whatever business model that obviously cannot work in the long run but then see it as their right that society make it work for them.
Oh, and put OpenAI on the slave labor list as well
OOTL, why should OpenAI be on the slave labor list?
The pay and the TASK, holy fuck, being exposed to images and content that most people can’t take in even small doses, and with NO therapy options. Horrible.
Oh crap.
There’s been recruitment here in the Philippines for similar AI training tasks with very little pay, too. But that thing in Kenya is much much worse.
I took on a music-related task out of curiosity and I got these recruitment emails after
Don’t forget about Meta somehow committing mass copyright infringement of books but playing the ‘information should be free but only for this specific instance of rocketing our AI training’ bullshit.
Open AI uses mechanical Turk, which is the closest you can get to slave labor while still technically paying somebody, except for prison labor I guess.
Yup…I’ve had the displeasure of being on that thing for a few months some years back. I couldn’t shrug the feeling of feeling like a sweatshop worker. “Ah yes, do these menial tasks that’ll take you 40 minutes of your time to earn…5 cents! woo!”
I always assumed that shit only made sense if you were living in a place with very low cost of living when paid in US dollars.
It doesn’t pay nearly enough as a good source of income.
There’s a very stingy and narrow set of requirements you have to meet before you see or even do dollar-amount tasks.
If you’re docked by a single ‘Requester’ aka your micro-bosses on there, then your chances slip.
So, I can’t recommend Amazon Machine Turk to anyone. Only do it for beer money. Don’t do it for a living income.
They originally paid Nigerians a pittance to look at horrific material all day to weed it out of the training and gave them very little in terms of mental health treatment for them.
All companies: We can’t make money unless we make you subscribe to everything.
criminalize wage theft
More than a year after leaving my job, I got a letter from them… and I initially thought it was some kind of scam. Why would I think that? Well, because it was a check for about $1k. They had apparently miscalculated overtime/differentials during the height of the pandemic (when I worked myself to the bones in an indescribable, fearful/stressful environment), so they owed money to almost everyone who worked during that time.
~$1k for just me. It was a hospital. In a capital city of the US. I don’t even have an estimate of how many of us hourly’s were working then… RN’s, RT’s, CNA’s, LPN’s, PT, OT, Security, Housekeeping? Let’s just imagine an extremely low number of employees for the hospital, like 500.
If $1k was held for 500 employees over a year, you’re telling me they got to profit/sit on $500,000 for over a year? What’s the interest on that? And I’m low-balling this number to a huge extent.
It’s like, “Whoopsies, we didn’t pay y’all enough at the time, but it’s cool because we recouped most the loss anyway over the past year”. They hedged their profits by stealing wages is how it seems to me. “Oopsie daisy, we had an error; But don’t worry cause here’s your pay a year later”. Cool cool cool, no worries friend. Didn’t need it anyway
How is there a special category of theft that isn’t criminal?
Only if they’re black.
The Nextdoor posts about shoplifting and executing thieves is fucking bananas. And the stories they always share are always black folk.
Fortunately, nextdoor is a Karen cesspool and I’d rather keep them contained there.
Lemmy: we can’t make money lol
A business that cannot operate without breaking the law is a criminal organisation and should be treated as such.
If a corporation has legal rights as if it were a person, why aren’t they punished like everyone else?
Because, like wealthy people, wealthy corporations just get a slap on the wrist rather than be made an example of.
We execute people for committing multiple murders. A corporation can kill hundreds or thousands of people with their pollution or their emissions or whatever else they are doing to skirt regulations and get slapped with a fine far smaller than their profits.
Is sampling and analyzing publicly available data and not storing it considered stealing?
I’m not defending anyone here, but that’s just weird. It’s also weird to take a meme seriously, but w/e.
Public data still have licenses. Eg, some open source licences force you to open source the software you created using them, something OpenAI doesn’t do.
If you’re using it as you found it, then yeah. But if I take derived data from it like word count and word frequency, it’s not exactly the same thing and we call that statistics. Now if I draw associations of how often certain words appear together, and then compound that with millions of other sources to create a map of related words and concepts, I’m no longer using the data as you described because I’m doing something entirely different with it. What LLMs do is generates new information from its underlying sources.
In my example, they would still be using the source code to create new software that is not open source, not matter how many Markov chains are behind it.
You can’t use someone’s work for whatever you want just because it’s publicly accessible.
I’m actually still not sure how I feel about this.
I can use books to learn a new language. AI can use texts to learn their kind of language in a sense.
I’m not sure where the limit is or should be though.
I don’t think that’s really the same thing. Most people learning another language aren’t doing it specifically so they can turn around and sell translations to millions of customers.
And if they were, they’d probably need to be accredited and licensed, using standardized sources that they pay for, directly or indirectly.
so they can turn around and sell translations to millions of customers
That sounds like a translator to me. And also, they’re kind of doing it for free. What they’re selling is access to their latest models, their API and their plugins store. They’re not exactly selling the information that has been transformed.
Hasn’t web scraping been done for like forever, though? How is this any different? You get publicly accessible information and you derive data from it. You’re literally not stealing anything or storing it as-is.
It has to be stored in some form for the AI to “learn” from and remember it, and a lot of the debate is around whether AI is actually able to learn, or if it can only really blindly combine 1:1 copies of elements into something derivative.
There’s also the debate of whether what humans learn and produce based on influence can be compared to AI, but humans aren’t able to consume millions of records in seconds like AI.
They’re not storing the original data and OpenAI even state so themselves. LLMs compound derived associations between words and concepts from whatever it analyzes, which is further modified by all the other sources it analyzes and that’s what gets stored during training. It doesn’t matter if it’s a few sources or a million sources, it’s not storing any of it as-is. It’s very much like how we process information ourselves for the length of our entire lives by making generalizations. We don’t memorize everything precisely besides the foundational blocks of language, but our neurons do fire in a certain pattern when given a trigger. How is that stealing?
You know I think it’s kind of funny that there’s such a tendency towards monopoly and power centralization in business, in order to “maximize efficiency”, when the main argument in favor of the free market, as I see it, is in favor of competition and innovation. It’s just funny that the competition doesn’t actually exist, and the innovation only comes about in the form of evergreened to shit intellectual property that further enforces a lack of competition.
their copes always revolve around with “but it’s actually the GOVERNMENT’S fault that we have monopolies and if we didn’t have all these LAWS like PATENTS and MINIMUM WAGE and REGULATIONS destroying SMALL BUSINESSES then we’d have a TRUE COMPETITIVE MARKET!” ignoring exactly what causes the government to be able to get to that point in the first place (spoiler alert: companies buy the government out, it’s inevitable in poorly-regulated capitalism)
source: me, regrettably a former libertarian “anarcho”-capitalist
I’m a fan of capitalism, but it NEEDS heavy regulation to ensure competition. The playing field is not naturally level. Left to its own devices, the market insists on consolidation and monopoly.
I have a rough idea of the best way to do capitalism: if a company in a standard industry reaches monopoly (or oligopoly) stage, congratulations. You’ve won. The government should buy all your stock at above market rates, all the employees including the CEOs should get massive payouts. Huge taxpayer funded party. Golden parachutes for everyone. Giant bonuses to all of their contracted labor. And then the company or companies should be broken up into tiny pieces, assets sold off, all intellectual property revert to public domain, and leadership banned from pursuing business in that industry for a period of time.
We don’t have minimum wages here in Sweden. It’s regulated by negotiations between worker unions and companies. And the companies fucking hate it so much. Which is so funny because the government isn’t involved. It’s a free market, only the workers are part of it, and companies find that “totally not cool dude!”
We also have rent control functioning in a rather similar way, landlord unions and the tenant union negotiates rent increases on a yearly basis, and the landlords hate it. They’re actually free to raise the rent however they please, but the tenant union can take that to the rent court (or whatever it’s called) and if the increase is found to be unsubstantiated they’ll have to pay back the tenants.
I think that’s a solid model for democracy, but obviously companies hate it.
Sweden must be under constant attack by forgien governments that want to destabilize the country though. I know nothing about the politics of Sweden. Are the media companies run by propaganda groups like they are in most other countries?
I’d be curious how education works as well, most free economies can be broken by attacking education… it seems like there must be a ton of pressure to not have working examples of this kind of regulated capitalism in the world.
Is everyone taught to hate foreign workers that are lazy and also steal all the jobs?
I’m sincerely asking because it seems so bizarre to me that there are still functioning countries like that after all this globalization of wealth and greed.
Are the media companies run by propaganda groups like they are in most other countries?
Kind of. We have state media in the form of SVT (Sveriges Television) and SR (Sveriges Radio), and through lobbying they’ve been kind of hamstrung in the sense that they’re not allowed to compete with private media. In reality this means that articles from SVT tend to be rather terse. They’re good, but they never offer much in the way of details. On the other hand I feel like they’re typically very objective. There are never really opinions included in things.
Pretty much all publications have a political affiliation though, and that tends to colour headlines and such. It’s something to be aware of.
Then there are obviously smaller propaganda outlets. Samtiden for example is owned by the party Sverigedemokraterna and is highly influenced by their neo-nazi politics.
I’d be curious how education works as well, most free economies can be broken by attacking education… it seems like there must be a ton of pressure to not have working examples of this kind of regulated capitalism in the world.
Education is pretty regulated. Homeschooling like in the U.S. just isn’t a thing here. All children have a thing called “skolplikt” (duty to attend school), and while there are private schools, recently they’ve all fallen under really heavy scrutiny for not living up to the standards they’re expected to hold.
Private schools are publicly funded. I’m not 100% sure how all this works, but I believe each child has a certain sum tied to them, so if a child decides to attend private school, that sum goes to the private school. There’s likely also grants and such for schools, but school isn’t really something that’s on my mind a lot.
Private schools are more about different forms of education, like Waldorf or Montessori. There are also religious private schools. As far as I know, schools don’t charge individuals for attendance, so going to a private school isn’t really something prestigious here.
Schools are also expected to feed kids. Boggled my mind first time I heard of a kid having “school lunch debt”, the notion strikes me as ridiculous. Schools are meant to be safe spaces for learning and growth.
Is everyone taught to hate foreign workers that are lazy and also steal all the jobs?
Nah. This strikes me as the kind of thing your racist old grandpa might say.
That’s not to say that people don’t shit on foreign workers. I know Eastern Europeans aren’t very highly regarded among truckers, but I’ve also heard that they tend to be really incompetent and outright dangerous, not obeying traffic laws and whatnot, so I expect that at least some of the animosity is deserved.
It’s not all perfect though. I belive a union recently negotiated that ready personnel (so like, firefighters, ambulance, life rescue personnel etc.) got a rule through for forced downtime. Which sounds great in theory, but it effectively screws over smaller departments (like in my town) where they have a very small staff pool, and rely on people being on-call. Most of the time nothing comes from being on-call, but with forced rest they’d need to actually schedule people. I’m not 100% sure how it works, but the workers were not happy and several threatened to quit. In my town they requested an exemption from these rules, and they got it through.
It seems like it’s a rule that’s really good for larger towns and cities, but in a small town like mine it just makes things harder.
Sweden is also by no means a perfect country. There are so many areas we could improve on. The housing market (like everywhere) is pretty rubbish. We have a lot of immigrants, but the integration efforts are incredibly half-arsed. We’re very digital, and you basically need a BankID to operate anything digitally here. For that you need to be registered at the tax office, and getting registered there can require you to hop through a bunch of hoops. It took my roomie almost 4 years to get properly registered an receive a social security ID.
There’s also barely anything that’s private information. If you knew my name, you could find out so much about me. How many vehicles I own, where I live, the size of my apartment, who my employer is, what I make, if I’ve been involved in any legal cases, if I’m politically engaged, if I own property, if so what, where, and how much it’s worth, if I have a car, then the make, colour, last time it was checked. My phone number (if that’s public, mine thankfully isn’t), my social security ID, etc. etc.
I heard of a case where a guy found out that he was legally declared dead when a letter arrived telling him so. Someone had basically signed a death certificate with his details, then they’d signed it as a doctor or whatever that didn’t exist, and submitted it to the right place. You’d think there’d be more checks and balances in place, but nope. It took the guy ages to get stuff at least partially sorted out, because shockingly there aren’t any procedures in places for when people magically stop being dead.
We also paid out social security to the defense minister of Iraq, so our systems definitely do get abused. The sad part being that when they restrict things and make these systems more conservative, people that really do need them end up getting hurt.
Elon Musk: “I can’t make money if I can’t torture and kill humans. It’s the next logical step from all the other animals I have tortured and killed”
Also Musk: I managed to set the GDP of Paraguay on fire when I was high, and now my job has to give me more or I’ll cry.
What have I said this entire time? Companies are not loyal at all. They will do anything, even breaking the law (re my ISP I took to the tribunal today), for profit. They aren’t loyal to you, their own employees nor their own customers. We gotta start putting them back in their place now more than ever before, before it’s too late
easy solution: stop making money
