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pixel_of_moral_decay t1_jdpshin wrote

Reply to comment by drysart in Microsoft reportedly orders AI chatbot rivals to stop using Bing’s search data by OutlandishnessOk2452

That’s not entirely correct. LinkedIn has copyright on the presentation. Data can not be copyrighted.

Scraping isn’t a right, any website can block or restrict scrapers regardless of content rights since there’s no SLA in place. Which is ultimately what it comes down to.

Users don’t really have a say in terms of the content they submit. They give LinkedIn the right to do pretty much anything with the data.

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K----_ST t1_jdps08g wrote

Reply to Silicon Valley Elites Are Afraid. History Says They Should Be by Mynameis__--__

"Waving away legitimate questions about the industry's labor inequities, climate impacts and civil rights abuses, they claim that the press is biased against them and that they’re besieged on all sides by "woke" critics."

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Lol, the legitimate questions have to do with data and privacy. What a junk piece.

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Rodgers4 t1_jdpry5f wrote

Reply to comment by NefariousnessNo484 in Silicon Valley Elites Are Afraid. History Says They Should Be by Mynameis__--__

This is some revisionist history unless you’re specifically referring to a densely populated city that you can hail a cab. Before Uber/Lyft, if you weren’t in an urban core like Chicago or New York, you had to call the cab company and they would maybe show up in 30-60 minutes, not call you when they got there, and leave.

With Uber/Lyft you have a driver and know when they’re coming via the app and you can communicate with them. I’d pay more for that alone. Too many nights at a bar, calling a cab, and getting some BS “they’ll be outside in an hour” only to never hear back or get a cab.

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despitegirls t1_jdprnkr wrote

Reply to comment by AlFender74 in AI chatbot company Replika restores erotic roleplay for some users by Saltedline

I think you'd be surprised how many are women. I know of a woman who's used (or is using not sure) Replika more as an experiment for domme/sub play, and the podcast Bot Love had a woman who was doing the same, minus the experiment part.

I really don't think it's sad at all, especially given so much of kink is mental, and having any sort of relationship with an AI involves imagination. The sadness comes when they beleive the relationship is more than what it is, that their AI partner truly has feelings for them. But I wouldn't be surprised if in the next 20 years, AI dating was looked at the same way that online/app dating is now.

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Fenix42 t1_jdprdab wrote

Reply to comment by bitfriend6 in Silicon Valley Elites Are Afraid. History Says They Should Be by Mynameis__--__

The thing is, tech is still in the new disruptive thing phase. It has not really even gotten started.

I am 42 amd a 2nd generation programer. My dad started in the 80s. He went over to the hadwareside after a few years. He still proframed at home as a hobby, though. I started programming at like 8 on my dads lap.

I have grown with tech. I got to learn it as it became more complicated. Tech passed the point a guy like me can keep up with all the new shit when I was in my 20s and working in the industry.

The speed has only increased since then.

I agree that we need to keep tech in check. There are major issues that need to be handled. We just need to be careful how we do it. There is still a lot tombe gained from it.

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nopower81 t1_jdpr3l5 wrote

Reply to U.S. and China wage war beneath the waves - over internet cables by Global_Informant

Yeah ur right, I guess 38 yrs working in a world wide call center, world wide data processing center and the global money processing center handling profits into the low billions would leave a person with no telecommnications, fiber optic and multiple mainframe computers and their support servers and the UPS systems and generator systems supporting it all, yeah no knowledge at all

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