Because, as the article goes on to say, the problem isn't that genAI repeats copyrighted material. Rather, its automation and massive scale upends the labor incentives that copyright is intended to provide, in a way that a human synthesizing knowledge from multiple sources can't.
In other words, it doesn't really matter whether ChatGPT or Bing Chat or DALL-E are tweaked so that they no longer violate the letter of copyright law, if they deprive -- at scale -- all their data sources of the views, recognition, and revenue that incentivize them to go gather and produce this valuable data in the first place. Why bother researching and writing an article if you're never going to get any pageviews for it, because Google places your main point atop the search results page?
The marketing company is owned by Cox, an ISP, cable, phone, and general media conglomerate. This capability is apparently already active and being sold.
The full article title is: "Marketing Company Claims That It Actually Is Listening to Your Phone and Smart Speakers to Target Ads"
But I’d love to see more proof of this. I fully believe it’s happening, but only on some devices.
For example I doubt Apple devices do it (they’ve locked that down a lot and added recording indicators). Or any other relatively premium brand like Sony or Samsung. But I fully believe the ultra cheap versions of things like TVs or Android phones would do it. A $50 Android phone at a gas station has to make money somehow.
I wish they documented the sanitization logic beyond that it's optimized for JWTs -- there are so many other session token formats and naming conventions that I would have to test this tool for each site captured instead of making a blanket recommendation to use it.
I do weep, honestly -- it's getting hard for me to watch nature documentaries or go to zoos and nature preserves, because it reminds me of what we're still killing off at record speed.
I've seen very few chargers with prominent signage, visible from a major road (the ones in supermarket parking lots usually can't be seen until you're there), or next to existing gas stations. I also haven't seen any entertainment media showing someone plugging in or unplugging their EV, whether through product placement or organic scriptwriting.
How else, in America, will the non-enthusiasts realize that owning an EV could be a practical option, even an ordinary one?
> I've seen very few chargers with prominent signage, visible from a major road
Is there a point to such signage when the cars' built-in navigation knows where the chargers are and automatically routes you to the most optimal one on trips where you need one?
If I were considering an electric car, which I'm not, I would probably look at maps that presumably exist on the Internet before I'd trust random spottings on my part.
That's exactly the problem history proves hegemony solves, lmao. You don't have to answer that question with people who are the same as you. It is an intrinsic truth.
I credit a lot of my worldview and politics to the fact that I have a lot of friends who are poor and/or have chronic health conditions, and that I have to contrast that with my well-paying and secure tech job and other institutional advantages.
I've been with them on the phone and in waiting rooms, seeing firsthand how they have to navigate systems (both public and private) that are set up to fail -- public benefits systems that randomly corrupt their information and require them to prove they aren't defrauding the government, mental health hospitalizations that leave them more traumatized than when they entered, abusive bosses who take advantage of their precarity, systems that would leave me as an able-bodied/able-minded person absolutely exhausted and demoralized. And most of the time, all I can do is hug them, and send them money when things break down worse than usual.
It keeps me humble, and angry, and with a real sense of survivor's guilt.
A fitting rebuttal to Andreesen's manifesto is Erin Kissane's recent series about how Meta enabled a genocide in Myanmar. "Trust and safety" as enemies, indeed. https://erinkissane.com/meta-in-myanmar-full-series
In other words, it doesn't really matter whether ChatGPT or Bing Chat or DALL-E are tweaked so that they no longer violate the letter of copyright law, if they deprive -- at scale -- all their data sources of the views, recognition, and revenue that incentivize them to go gather and produce this valuable data in the first place. Why bother researching and writing an article if you're never going to get any pageviews for it, because Google places your main point atop the search results page?