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[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 86 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

"un american", "shame", "responsibility", "respect", "standard human behavior" are not terms that affect these kinds of people. if its not a law backed up by a gun, people like trump will flat out ignore your meaningless words.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 50 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I mean, you'd think as a fellow grifter Altman would understand that because he's the same fucking way.

He started with books3, it was known it was pirated, it was known it DRM had been stripped from ebooks (a federal crime in the US).

He started his company with a dataset of more than questionable provenance and he did not pay a dime for access to it.

books3 is a well known corpus that was built from the entirety of the Bibliotik private tracker for ebooks. It's a fucking pirate website with piracy as the explicit goal as well as tools to allow you to strip DRM from ebooks.

Now, piracy itself isn't the issue here, it's that somehow when it's a massive corporation doing it, suddenly it's okay to make obscene amounts of money from piracy. When the rich steal shit and make a mint off of it, it's fine. But when little people do it? Fuck em, sue em and prosecute them for all they're worth.

Rules don't apply to them, and they know it.

[–] swordgeek@lemmy.ca 53 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

"Whiny lying billionaire thief complains about whiny psychpathic megabillionaire having more clout."

[–] tdawg@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] swordgeek@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago

All of the creative content he has been training his fancy autocomplete on. My data, your comments, my cousin's art portfolio, he either stole or paid someone else to steal through partnerships.

[–] TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world 31 points 3 weeks ago

it'd be 'un-American' for Elon Musk to wield political influence to harm rivals

Seems pretty darn American to me. What's more American than trying to win the wealth and profit race by any means necessary? It's as American as apple pie.

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 27 points 3 weeks ago

Elon:

"un-American??"

"And buying an election, buying a position within government, buying a propaganda machine, is American? Ok, well maybe that actually is American."

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 25 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Ok Sam, use your great wealth and platform to do something about it

[–] demizerone@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Too busy building a big gay bunker. Did you all know he was gay? That makes him a good person!

[–] IhaveCrabs111@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

I thought that made him a bad person? I don’t know who to believe anymore. Guess I’ll have to form my own opinions based on the content of their character.

[–] Pistcow@lemm.ee 19 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

What's more American than buying a politician!?

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Buying all the politicians?

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 5 points 3 weeks ago

Buying all the politicians McDonald's?

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 18 points 3 weeks ago

Even if this were true, he's not fucking American.

[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 17 points 3 weeks ago

OpenAI has spent at least $1.25M on lobbying this year.

[–] Bronzebeard@lemm.ee 12 points 3 weeks ago

He's not American

[–] TunaCowboy@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Cool, which one of you silver spoon pussies is going to do something about it?

[–] intresteph@discuss.online 2 points 3 weeks ago

Maybe we can ask Brian Thompson’s new pal to help out.

[–] kerrigan778@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

Good thing he's South African then you evil dumbass

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

As if Musk would care.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Well to bad for him, Elron Musk is not a legal American.

[–] droopy4096@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 weeks ago

..afraid of hostile take-over of OpenAI by Musk...

[–] Linktank@lemmy.today 1 points 3 weeks ago

Translation: "Pwease don't buwwy me Mistew Musk."