The answer to the contradiction between socialized production and individual property isn’t to reprivatize production, but to socialize property.

Yet another red sails banger. 🔥🔥🔥

Would you approve of AI if companies bought licenses from the artists in their training data? Is this the underlying issue for you, that capitalists aren’t playing by their own rules? This is a reasonable grievance but it’s hardly communist.

Regarding labor, don’t you want people to work less? Yes the machine takes less manpower than a human. That’s potentially liberatory. Of course under bourgeois rule, this technology is used to suppress the wages of artists. But that’s true for everything, which is why the problem is capitalism itself and why we shouldn’t cede control of this new technology to capitalists.

Also I don’t mean to put words in your mouth. I asked those questions to get you to think about how the anti-plagiarism laws you want for AI would manifest in real life. And I said that you’re an advocate for expanding intellectual property because you’re implying that artists should have more protections against having their work copied. When an artist’s work cannot be copied without the right granted to you, then they hold the copyright, a form of IP. This is shortsighted because those who are most able to defend their IPs and who have the most IPs to defend are not solo artists, but corporations. Broaden copyright laws and you’re directly giving power to Disney and the like.

P.S. chill out, damn. You’re being snarky as hell when both me are memorable have been formal with you. I’m not trying to dunk on you and this isn’t reddit.

It for sure seems like this topic sucks the theory out of comrades and turns them into mini Mickey mice, ready to kill to protect the sanctity of their IP. It’s either that or they’ll suddenly embrace idealism because pictures are only meaningful when they’re metaphysically imbued with human spirit or whatever.

In real life, this doesn’t bother me because I’m surrounded by libs. But it is aggravating how common reaction is on here and hexbear. I don’t understand how avid pirates can be so attached to intellectual property laws.

Copyright is one of the 4 types of intellectual property. Your misguided defense of the individual author strengthens publishing companies instead, since they own the means of production to copy and have the lawyers to litigate such violations.

Also you misunderstand how the technology works. Generative AI does not function by copying the data it was trained on, but by using the trends it noticed in that data to piece together something original. Examine the code of whichever LLM and you will never find any books, pictures, or movies stored within. It’s a sophisticated network of associations and dissociations.

Now you might then argue that these generalized statistics also constitute plagiarism, but consider what that entails. If mimicry is criminal, should it then be illegal for artists to imitate another’s style? Should musicians be able to patent chord progressions and leitmotifs? Should genres be property?

Your stance against AI is boxed within the existing bourgeois framework of creative ownership which I hope you agree is awful. I understand the precarity that this tech creates for artists but expanding IP will empower, not weaken, the companies that exploit them.

For what it’s worth I’m with you on this one. There’s a lot of robot-bashing on the left when fundamentally the complaints are about the commodification of art, not about the tools used to make it. It’s frankly unmarxist to stand against AI, at least generally. I really hope no one here will die on the hill that “intellectual property” is real.

It’s true that Nazi Germany, Italy, and friends had colonization projects in Africa, but people didn’t create a new word about it because that’s generally understood for what it is. But when they did it to other Europeans, suddenly THAT requires an update in vocabulary and a paradigm shift? Do white people think they’re too good to be colonized or what

Is that a surprise though? Fascism is just a word that means “imperialism done to white people”

Actually it’s 114 minutes because your homework is to read all three. I’m expecting a report from you tomorrow.

I’m pretty sure the only tests conducted on the cybertruck were done by Tesla themselves. No conflict of interest there, of course.

The Google account seems unnecessary if you’re attaching a number bc you could just sign up using only the number.

Anyway, I think I’m going to stick with the account I made using a dud gmail address and cope with being unable to post or comment anything

That’s not much better because you need either a Facebook account or a phone number (again) for that too ))):

It’s making me sign up with either a phone number or a Google account ):

And you need to attach a phone number to comment anything. Are there any issues with using one of those temporary fake phone number generators?

That is pretty direct for a manifesto. I dunno why but I was expecting like, 5 pages at least

Isn’t it magical how some shitass bot is more powerful than you or me will ever be?

I wonder if his insurance covers this

Because of course the US would make a law that exempts farmerworkers from labor protections

Intel is building a $20 billion facility in Arizona with financial support from the US government. NBC News reported workers are on the construction site for “two 60-hour weeks followed by a 50-hour week for months at a time in the hot Arizona weather with no paid vacation time.”

Many of these workers are coming from out of state and leaving their friends and families behind to live in temporary housing or hotels for months or years at a time. Josh Vitale, a superintendent for Hoffman Construction, the general contractor overseeing the construction of the Intel computer chip factory, told NBC News, “There’s a lot that goes into how stressful it is, not just physically, but mentally and psychologically … we have to realize that we are legitimately wringing the life out of people.”

They’re making workers leave their lives behind for months at a time to toil in the desert and live in sardine cans. With no vacation. Yeah it’s real surprising that suicide is on the rise and no young people are joining the industry.

This all happened in Oklahoma, the state where the openly fash superintendent of public education (Ryan Walters) appointed the also-openly-fash Libs of Tiktok creator (Chaya Raichik) to serve on the Media Advisory Committee. These people barred trans kids from playing sports and pissing in the correct bathroom and are also banning queer literature and sex ed from school libraries by calling it pornography.

It’s worth mentioning that Chaya made twitter posts gloating about Nex’s death, calling people “haters, losers, and liars”. She also has only been to Oklahoma once and isn’t a librarian or teacher (requirements to have her position).

TSMC got delayed because the local union demanded they stop replacing them with foreign workers and Samsung is delaying their construction because they’re fighting with Intel for subsidies.

Lol and we call these companies “job creators” when we have to fight them to even hire us. And why can’t Samsung pull themselves up by their bootstraps and free market themselves a factory, hmmm? 🤔

The CSET study looked at fab construction between 1990 and 2020, and concluded that for the roughly 635 fabs built in that timeframe, the average time between the start of construction and production was 682 days. Three countries beat that benchmark: Taiwan at 654 days on average, Korea at 620, and Japan at a staggeringly fast 584 days. Meanwhile, Europe and the Middle East were about on par at 690 days, as was China at 701 days.

However, the U.S. clocked in at 736 days, well above the worldwide average and second only to Southeast Asia at 781.

Idk if I’m just a rube, but one month of difference doesn’t seem like that big a deal. Also this author says that Taiwan is a country and that environmental protections should be cut to speed up construction.