Furbland

to the tune of Holiday Road

🎵Holiday I-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-inn🎵

I begun that boycott a couple weeks back and am not planning on stopping. Most of the stuff you can get from Amazon, you can get from AliExpress at a significantly lower price (they have more variety as well in my experience)

It’s absolutely true, look it up if you don’t believe it. This is good for the Linux community as it will likely get more people on board but it doesn’t change the fact that he’s a horrible person.

I agree with JustARaccoon’s reply to your comment, and also this is really turning from a respectful debate into a ridiculous argument for something most everyone thinks is wrong. The artists should get their compensation. I don’t care how “improbable” it is, it needs to happen.

The problem being, how do we get it banned?

By “figure it out” I meant “figure out a way to get big companies on board”

I also agree that ethical sourcing is pretty ridiculous given real world constraints, but I’m holding out hope that someone figures it out.

[Lemmy] is very pro-piracy

There’s a bit of a difference, I’d say. Piracy hurts massive companies that already have tons of money to spare and (to be frank) don’t need any more. AI hurts individual artists that barely make a living as is. It’s like comparing Robin Hood to whatever the inverse of Robin Hood is (OpenAI, I guess). Point is, I have zero issue with generative AI, I do however have issue with the companies behind it. If all of their data was sourced ethically, and the people creating the training data actually got compensation, I’d be fine with it. Everything can be a tool for high effort and low effort content, it’s just increasingly insulting to creators that their work is being stolen and then twisted into something with considerably less effort that makes more money than they could ever hope to make. In other words, dead internet theory.

thanks for reminding me why I use an ad blocker (and why I hate pro-life fuckers)