yes but if Spotify uses its own GenAI music, they don’t have to pay anyone else when someone listens to it.
yes but if Spotify uses its own GenAI music, they don’t have to pay anyone else when someone listens to it.
Spotify’s plans to take money from subscribers but never pay a fucking dime to anyone else , ever.
I love that they have Ultima 4 available for free. I spent SO many hours in that world. The “what kind of person are you” value judgment questions at the beginning were remarkably heavy for introspective teenage me.
fucking WebEx
Much respect for the clever name of the company. I hope younger generations still know about Gulliver’s Travels
you know what, yes, I love this energy and I want more of it. This is how brave people should talk to management, but it’s how everyone should talk to AI hucksters.
we should fucking hope. Might catch on
that would involve having to talk to Kevin Hart
if all this shit was promo trolling
we can only hope
Google isn’t paying lemmy $60m a year
Certainly not - they’re scraping The Fediverse for free like they’ve scraped everything else. Whether they bother using the scraped data or not is a different story. Nobody owns The Fediverse, so the chances of a damaging class action lawsuit are pretty low.
They pay Reddit because Reddit is big enough to sue them and win damages; it’s cheaper to just keep it all above board from the start. Reddit has a TON of data (human-generated and otherwise).
the word “cesspit” was used elsewhere in this thread and I think it’s a remarkably useful word
“Thank you for calling FASH-Mobile, how may I direct your call?”
I’m amazed they are allowed to own
By this point I’m surprised that they’re not allowed to own people, seeing as their business model treats people as if they are property.
The headline is patently false.
FTA
We do not develop LLMs or other generative models using customer data.
If you want to act like you’re better than Reddit you’re going to have to start actually being better.
“code is law” can become “might makes right” without oversight. Those who lobby against oversight are a problem.
Corporations have also already proved very difficult to actually hold to account. They can basically do as they please, with relative disregard for any consumer protections that may already exist. It’s not good, but it can get worse.
wait, take a breath, do you think someone’s going to get arrested for trying to turn off advertising?
I know America is ever-sliding into Dystopia but that just doesn’t make a lot of sense to me.
then Google tweaks the algorithm
Well you don’t have to read Cory’s newest column to understand that Google hasn’t been doing that, because they don’t have to. They do not care, at least not yet, because they have arguably become too big to care.
Google being forced to
What an odd phrase
I totally get where Cory is coming from on this. He’s been around long enough to have actually seen these things happen, from a perspective that’s effectively unique. I believe him when he talks about this stuff. I get his point of not putting effort into building up a platform that can hold him and his audience hostage.
but here’s the good part.
People bailing on Twitter to join Bluesky is reasonably easy (there are tools available to find your friends on the new system). If it’s easy to bail on Twitter to join Bluesky, it will be similarly easy to bail on Bluesky to join Mastodon, if/when that becomes necessary.