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11d ago
>they committed illegal acts that would normally get prosecuted I specifically differentiated civil law from criminal law in my original comment, and said it's unclear whether their acts were criminal.
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11d ago
1. OP specifically mentioned "IP violating antics", not hacking 2. All the hacking legislation (and criminal law in general) require proving intent, which so far as we can tell didn't exist in those cases. At best you can try
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11d ago
>and the DOJ has done nothing against the AI companies and their IP violating antics. For good reason. Courts have so far ruled AI training is fair use, and it doesn't look likely to be overturned by the supreme court. Theres also t
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11d ago
"If they are selling it for less than it cost to make, buy as much as you can." -- Warren Buffett
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11d ago
He's saying that some AI agent (with computer use capabilities, which the recent gpt model is supposedly good at) can at the very least, operate a browser (or phone) of the doordash website/app, scrape the contents via OCR, presen
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11d ago
That's pretty similar wording to the CFAA, which OP mentioned has been checked by case law.
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11d ago
You can run adblock in the browser to block those too. Most don't bother, just like they won't bother to have a custom AGENTS.md to block all these offers.
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12d ago
>However, since then the AI hype has evaporated What? Nvidia stock, for instance has been moving largely sideways for the past 4 months. Maybe it's not as jubilant as before, but it hasn't exactly "evaporated".
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12d ago
You'd have to reference rockstar's exact filings, since it's possible to paint a narrative that suggests something, without outright lying.
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12d ago
https://www.eurogamer.net/doug-bowser-nintendo-doesnt-have-u... >However, while workers at Nintendo have yet to unionise, the company has previously been accused of interfering with unionisation efforts. A QA contractor
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12d ago
>The mole shared access credentials - forbidden by Discord's ToS and by UK's law. This is very plain and simple to anyone with half a rasher of logic about them. So we're suddenly for abusing hacking legislation to prosecu
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12d ago
That seems more of a case of someone trying to hype up their product, than something that's actually real. What's likely actually happening is that they got a vaguely complete list of adults somehow (eg. voter rolls or DMV registr
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12d ago
>Oh quit clutching your pearls, he was perfectly civil. I'm not criticizing him for not being "civil", I'm criticizing him for criticizing me for a failing that he himself is committing. >You're the one trying
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12d ago
>dynamic personalized pricing in the supermarket Which I also think is overblown. The one thing that people can actually agree on is that dynamically setting sticker prices is bad, but nobody actually does this. There's less consens
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12d ago
But your video doesn't show that? It's just shows high level aggregations. It doesn't say "homer simpson living at 123 evergreen terrace, springfield" is 47 years old, votes republican, earns $50.1k, and rates 3
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12d ago
>Just because this is worded ambiguously, to clarify the "they" is Facebook. CA on the other hand was effectively the Trump's digital ad campaign. Given that "cambridge analytica" wasn't even mentioned in my
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13d ago
> The Republican Party is fortunate in that it has a limited number of constituents: That's not at all true. The biggest contradiction is on trade. The "business" faction is against tariffs, but the worker base was for it.
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13d ago
They had a facebook app (disguised as a quiz) that scraped the profile data of the user using it, as well as their friends. It's the latter part that was considered shady, but it was all allowed by facebook. Moreover it's not too
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13d ago
>Uhh, until recently, didn't those three undergo exactly the same kind of scrutiny and have had the regulations we are talking about here put in place for them? Newspapers were never regulated, with "the press" being speci
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13d ago
>I think it would be an inmensely naive and unnuanced take to look at this email and think that the truth is finally being revealed about CA. What was revealed that we didn't already know? >I'd suggest to look for more nuanc
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13d ago
>FA and CA lied to users Where's the lie? >If that was the advice, it seems pretty terrible. If you read either my comment or the email, you'd know what the advice was.
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13d ago
And what else? Cable news? Talk radio? Printing press?
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13d ago
>If they called 911 because they were worried about privacy when publically installing a privacy-violating tool, then yes, they 100% should be. Seems like the installer was calling because he thought he was being harassed? >As Keefe b
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13d ago
I'm well aware of the guidelines. The point isn't to actually accuse OP of being a sockpuppet, it's to point out the hypocrisy. That's why specifically enclosed the accusation with "uncharitably: ...".
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13d ago
>look at all the high rep accounts that immediately defend it As opposed to all the new accounts (uncharitably: sockpuppet accounts) that are criticizing it?
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13d ago
>The response is stronger because your hairdressers and baristas aren't actively providing a service for surveillance as part of their work. Should other law enforcement contractors also be subject to the same higher standard? For i
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13d ago
>Single stage hvac systems tend to have better performance in the max capacity cooling cases (Texas) and last significantly longer than units that rely on non-linear electronic devices. Why?
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13d ago
From the same site: https://withspecific.com/company-data
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14d ago
>If they don’t use the microphones why do they have a statement in their Terms of Service to not say sensitive things in front of your TV? Other people have mentioned there's other voice features like diction/voice control, so
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14d ago
>Would you rather have one random stranger see you naked, or have a video of you naked passed around to every cop in your city? Half the ubers I've been now has a "you're being recorded" notice. Public transit is far
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