alt Hacker NewsCorporate America never backs down. It simply rallies and tries again later until people are too fatigued to care. The only solution is to abandon ship, which I am doing. MS walked back in OS ads the first few times, but ultimately we still ended up on the exact trajectory everyone was outraged at. OpenAI still ended up on its path to closed AI despite initial walk backs. The story repeats itself over and over again, so, once the bad behavior starts, you leave. Their apologies are as hollow as their moral posturing.
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I hope this has some answers [1]. It’s on the front page right now, but your frustration clearly seems to have some implicit answers that [1] is trying to answer.
This is more on brand on the evil shortcomings that comes with letting effective altruism run unchecked and honestly is worse than average "Corporate America". And the Tech/AI Space have been warned many times. Getting paid for providing a compute/token hungry model and still intentionally sabotaging your customers and poisoning their workflows is something that should be unforgivable and frankly ground for antitrust prosecution.
"Corporate America never backs down. It simply rallies and tries again later until people are too fatigued to care. "
Frankly, that sounds excactly like Chat Control and similar recurring attempts to enact total surveillance here in the EU (Now shifted to heavy-handed age verification and various politicians touting bans on VPNs.) I don't want to abandon my continent of birth, though...
Same with VISA/Mastercard deciding what we can/cannot buy. The only solution is to stop using their credit cards at all.