cecilkorik

Inhuman corporate entities should not be allowed to own intellectual property and exclude people from it. They should not be allowed to pretend computer programs are inhuman AI stooges to do it for them either. Intellect is, until proven otherwise, the sole province of real, individual humans and must remain protected as such.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. It doesn’t pay the bills or make it feel nice though.

It certainly was, and it didn’t take long for the canaries to start dying, which immediately alerted everyone that there was a possible canary-murderer on the loose within the organization, which they solved by following the canary-murderer’s instructions to pursue profit at any cost and using a tiny sliver of the budget for regularly buying more canaries.

Oops sorry for the confusion, I misread the word “there” in your comment and you’re right my reply doesn’t really make sense in that context. I still think it’s important for people to understand how fucked up that situation is though.

I heard that the courts ruled it’s legal now as long as you generate it with AI first. I wish I was joking.

I’ll happily pay when they accept either crypto or an envelope of cash. There is no way to separate electronic payments or transfers from my personal identity and I don’t consider it usefully “private” to have any account directly traceable to that. Trust is a limited and increasingly valuable commodity, and I’m conserving mine.

That said, there’s probably a decent opportunity for second hand, no-strings-attached accounts to now be legitimately purchased then laundered anonymously through an arbitrary middleman without having use burner accounts stolen from innocent people or created with stolen identities. So maybe that’ll be an improvement for privacy. Privacy shouldn’t have to be illegal or inconvenient (but of course they want it to be).