They're destroying things that don't have to be destroyed and compiling the information into privately owned megastructures they'll then charge us to access while we own nothing and they can then alter the books.

Nah I'm good. Everything these AI companies stand for is fucking evil and malicious.

For every AI that researches a legit medical issue, they start literally burning fucking books, replacing jobs, screwing basically everyone, and making the world overall much worse.

If you can't see why these companies destroying any amount of books is bad, idk how to help you. Maybe look up a list of who has ever mass destroyed books. There's not a lot of good people there.

You don't need to destroy books to scan them.

You're very gullible.

Why do y'all argue about things you don't understand?

If a game is on disk, and a lot still are, then no, it cannot be taken away from you without literally entering your home with a warrant at least where I live.

Owning the physical disk in America at least also grants you the right to download and emulate later.

There's also the fact that having a physical routine adds emotional attachment.

Also, and this really needs to be asked, WHY ARE SO MANY OF YOU FIGHTING FOR LESS OPTIONS? Seriously what the fuck?

We did, it's called a resume

We let it die and made commercial systems to sell to companies instead claiming to streamline HR.

We constantly leave good systems behind because some chucklefuck wants to monetize something

Sorry we didn't understand the instructions, we hired an AI now to read resumes now.

In other news hiring has been tough lately :/

Yep, nah I get it.

More people should be this picky lol.

The problem is we're the wealthiest nation in the history of the world.

This no longer holds up.

Yup. I also live in a nice area.

I worked at a small business for 6 years. We shipped alcohol across the entire country, had major holiday orders even for things like NBC, the today show, and lion's gate did their holiday gifts through us.

Suffice to we made fuckin bank, and were comprised of 12 employees when I started. 4 cashiers, 4 management who were also capable and willing to fill in and help lower level laborers, and we had of course, the 4 lower level laborers, myself included initially.

In 2023 I was promoted to shipping manager and salaried, pay was good and and the year end bonus from the owner was decent.

In 2023 we were already down to 8 employees. Order volume was up over 3 years, so less people were fulfilling more work. I was fresh off my promotion so I was pretty blind for a bit.

Cut to this year and we had 5 employees. Order volume was slightly higher than it was in 2023. 5 people were now doing more work than 12 were just 6 years prior.

To give some perspective: As shipping manager, one holiday order from a local customer, would be for 100 individual bottles of wine shipped with gift notes inside each once and each bottle gift wrapped.

We had around 15 of these holiday orders and 13 of them came in after December 5. We brought in 1 person for seasonal help.

So just counting the holiday orders, excluding our in store and base online orders that include an email mailing list of 12,000 customers , put us even with conservative estimates at 1,500 individual bottles of alcohol that needed to be brought into the store, gift wrapped, individual cards made, and shipped in time for Christmas.

6 people was not enough. My mental health was destroyed and I had major depressive disorder until I finally quit this year.

My boss would keep cutting people, bitching about money, pushing ridiculous sales when we had no staffing, and all the while he travels to Europe with his family multiple times a year, has a 7 bedroom home, drives a Mercedes, and not one mother fucking time gave up any of it.

That's smart!

The devs themselves actually put out a pretty good "10 reasons not to buy wardogs" and one listed reason was because early access will be for big fixes and polish, not content drops.

Hopefully they walk the walk!

Sorry that was my dnf 😳

The funniest thing happened at my work this year.

One night our computers all decided to update without our consent as windows does. Everyone's computer crashed and the updates and how they broke each system varied wildly.

My laptop got totally bricked. I mean I used windows recovery USB, a damn actual disk, tried every safe mode, bios, windows repair utility thing I could. Nothing.

I reinstalled Windows 11 completely. To my utter fuckong bewilderment it was STILL BROKEN. Could not get to the sign in menu even though I could reinstall the OS. I'd seriously never seen anything like this shit and I've been building PCs for 2 decades.

So I said fuck it, loaded Linux mint on to the laptop and just like that, I could get to a desktop again.

The really shocking part, everyone at my work used all the computers, so if someone was near my laptop and needed to get something done, they'd just take a seat and do the task.

It took 3 months for anyone there to realize I had even moved on from windows.

They all used Libreoffice and other pre installed software and our workflow literally did not change at all, if anything I spent less time fixing fucking windows.

Good riddance, I will NEVER go back to that horse shit. They don't respect you and it's on purpose.

What does that mean?

We have quite literally had screen readers since the 1980s.

I in no way insinuated that I do not care about disabled people, my own father lost his legs and I have dealt with the bullshit for decades, including the fact that disabled people, like any other marginalized group, are used to further shitty agendas and make bad faith arguments.

Thank god for screen readers, so let's let LLM companies do whatever they want because we shouldn't fight, it's all pointless.

At least your relatives will get the enshitification of the world read aloud to them 🤷‍♂️

I am not saying that is the only way. Comprehension is fun.

I am saying that trying to actively snuff out the embers of fighting is wrong and the author presents zero solutions

I didn't downvote you lol.

This is an AI LLM issue.

Using disabled people as an excuse to discourage people from fighting isn't right, especially when no solutions are presented.

The blogger also seems to live in a fantasy world where at the end they are all information that is publicly available will be free and in these nice LLMs and shit, to which I say that all sounds awesome!

Are the governments and corporations currently building mass surveillance really going to allow people to do this once we all have to age verify our GDID windows PCs?

I don't like where this is going and I've seen disabled people used in arguments by people who know nothing of their struggles my entire life.

Don't let perfect be the enemy of good.

How else can you learn to fight unless you fail along the way?

We have tried sane washing billion dollar companies while they loot all our available knowledge, art, and culture to sell back to us in the form of a garbage chat or that helps destroy the planet.

Now an anonymous blogger has given them a wonderful example of how to use disabled people to further their goals of that again, include selling back to us, our very own knowledge, art, and culture.

Nah you can miss me with this shit. I'm done.

This blogger literally ends by saying they believe all publicly available knowledge will end up free and accessible to anyone.

Is this blogger high? Do we now think the companies building a mass surveillance state are going to give us things for free?

Discouraging fighting in any form now is trying to discourage the anti AI movement. Sorry about it.

Thank you.

Reading truly is fundamental.

The cause of the problem is being bolstered by the companies that make gen AI my dude. They're all the in the same trench coat, and they also make the accessibility laws.

I hate to tell you this but America has been captured by corporations for decades. Fuck them, and fuck anyone who dares to tell me stop fighting.

This screams astro turfing campaign against users fighting, and I'm not buying it.

The way to be effective is to fight.

GenAI needed to regulated years ago and I'm sorry but no amount of us asking nicely or fighting fair is going to stop technofascists from building their surveillance state.

In fact the past month has seen a huge uptick in stories about the "ineffectiveness" of fighting AI.

The timing of this while anti AI backlash is at an all time high tells me everything I need to know.

If the original comment offered solutions, different story.

There is no value in telling people to stop fighting.

"Thank god we fought for accessibility or those guys would have had a hell of time getting that wheelchair into the concentration camp."

Fwiw I am NO stranger to accessibility as my father lost both of his legs. Do you know how often accessibility is just used to gain political favor? Or how often it is literally just horseshit for show?

Preserving our current fuckass levels of accessibility while making it even easier on GenAI companies just doesn't feel right.