While these fines may seem exorbitant, it is worrying that the financial impact of such punishments rarely acts as a deterrent to these large technology companies, whose market capitalisation runs into the hundreds of billions of dollars.

Yeah. We need the equivalent of the giant "stop work" stickers that get plastered on a building's front door when construction doesn't have a permit. Otherwise it's just another operating cost to pass along to VCs/users.

Well, where is my part of the $3.5bn? I am not getting anything for my data.

There really needs to be criminal charges and prison time for Boards of Directors. Fines are a bullshit illusion of justice.

while these fines may seem exorbitant

They don't. Add a couple zeros and you're approaching what will be a meaningful punishment.

Fines are just another word for "legal if you're rich"

Who gets the money from these "fines"? Not the people who had their shit plagiarized

Why not prison immediately?

Even at $3.5 billion, "slapped" is an appropriate characterization 'cause all they hit was the wrist.

Immaterial punishment.

More please. How about a cool trillion?

i was so annoyed it had been nearly 30 seconds since I could upvote a post about ai being bad - average lemmy user