This comic is absolutely true: The AI companies don’t give two shits about getting consent before feeding content into their AI training databases.

But it’s also true that they don’t need it. They’re not redistributing the works, so it doesn’t matter (from a copyright perspective).

Courts have already reaffirmed our right to save stuff that gets delivered to our computers over the Internet. If we changed that rule, it would mean the end of the Internet, Lemmy, memes, etc.

AI companies suck—yes—but don’t let anger at their behavior convince you that removing everyone’s basic rights is a good idea.

Should you need consent before recording the police committing a crime?

Should you need consent to cite/copy someone’s work in order to critique it?

Should you need consent before quitting your job?

Not everything needs consent and in fact, the entire concept of requesting consent flies in the face of our rights in many scenarios.

There’s a whole lot of people—in power—that would love it if everything required consent.

Consent is a complicated topic that should not be talked about like it is all black and white.

Actually, there’s a whole lot more swearing and pounding of the desk. Fists shaking in the air and screaming, “Anthropic!”

Woah! Nobody said anything about this being illegal! Not even the article.

Zero laws are broken in “distillation attacks” aka “see what their product does when we give it this prompt.”

Cesarian kids didn’t get this map.

Isekai is just the fantasy version of sci-fi. It presents that, “what if?” question but (usually) with cat girls, swords, and magic.

Dancing in the shower without music isn’t nearly as fun 🤷

Police get caught committing crimes via hidden (or non-hidden, LOL) cameras all the time.

The same is true for corporations (and plain old abusive bosses).

Where I live, a company was caught making plans for illegal dumping (toxic waste) thanks to a hidden camera worn by a whistleblower.

The most recent news about hidden cameras catching corporate misbehavior are mostly related to meat processing plants. In Texas, I believe they passed an unconstitutional law a few years ago banning people from recording (in public) near factory farms and meat processing plants.

All this illegal/evil behavior was foiled thanks to hidden cameras.

This is why I firmly believe in “one party” laws. Look that up if you don’t know what it means.

So to you, the glasses are irrelevant. You just hate hidden cameras… Like police and various misbehaving corporations all over the world.

This post has triggered my outrage!

…because this is totally normal database stuff. Like, where’s the meat? My phone could handle 500 million rows of data. Is that supposed to be a lot?

I’m not exaggerating about the phone part: A modern smartphone can handle an SQLite DB with billions of records (aka “ROWS”, LOL).

Regular Linux running KDE (e.g. Kubuntu) is vastly superior to those streaming TV devices that run Android.

Just get a wireless keyboard and a regular wireless mouse. You won’t be disappointed.

KDE lets you increase the default zoom level for all applications to something like 225% without fucking everything up.

You’ll still need to go into your Firefox settings to increase the zoom level there, but those two places cover 99.999% of all streaming use cases.

You’re confused: You assume that all cameras on glasses will always be controlled by fascists.

Did it ever occur to you that someone might make their own glasses? Or that a company could make a set that works offline?

If you ran things, such technology would never happen because it would be banned before it got out the door.

But you’d be ok with that because you live in a hole, with perfect eyesight and zero foresight.

You think people should need a license to use technology like glasses and cameras. Listen to yourself!

I don’t know what kind of “anti” hole you fell into but you need to crawl back out.

Who’s pushing to make them hidden? If you want hidden cameras there’s thousands of vastly superior options than thick, ugly, obvious glasses.

Go search AliExpress right now for “hidden camera”. Your mind will be blown.

This isn’t wise for the sole reason that they really are a great benefit to the visually impaired.

Right now the tech is super useful, being able to read small text out loud and differentiate similar objects that certain conditions make difficult. However, the tech has the potential to do so much more.

Banning it now would be like slapping a whole lot of disabled people in the face.

Now with a delicious sweet cream filling.

Double-stuff yourselves in oreoaN👍

I have no doubt that these corporations (well, some of them) consider it a “threat”. “Massive”, though? No.

If it was a “massive threat” they would’ve lobbied long and hard long ago, joining with the MPAA and RIAA (which Sony was part of even back then!) in the 90s and 2000s era of “you wouldn’t download a car!”

Yes, even back then people were hosting their own game servers and not much has changed, really other than there’s a lot more online games now (even ones that shouldn’t be “online”).

This feels like corporate lobbyists trying to justify their jobs. Hopefully they’ll get “outsourced to AI” soon and articles like this will become a thing of the past. Replaced with AI-written legislation making the news because now rocks are required on all pizzas.

When individuals do it, it’s PIRACY!!!

When corporations do it, it’s merely copyright violations.

I’ve heard from copywriters who now fear losing their apartments, one who turned to sex work,

One of these jobs is not like the others!

Or the personification of an arperture, which could indicate a closed mind 🤔

Well, one that can open and close on demand, I guess 😁