I agree with JustARaccoon’s reply to your comment, and also this is really turning from a respectful debate into a ridiculous argument for something most everyone thinks is wrong. The artists should get their compensation. I don’t care how “improbable” it is, it needs to happen.

The problem being, how do we get it banned?

By “figure it out” I meant “figure out a way to get big companies on board”

I also agree that ethical sourcing is pretty ridiculous given real world constraints, but I’m holding out hope that someone figures it out.

[Lemmy] is very pro-piracy

There’s a bit of a difference, I’d say. Piracy hurts massive companies that already have tons of money to spare and (to be frank) don’t need any more. AI hurts individual artists that barely make a living as is. It’s like comparing Robin Hood to whatever the inverse of Robin Hood is (OpenAI, I guess). Point is, I have zero issue with generative AI, I do however have issue with the companies behind it. If all of their data was sourced ethically, and the people creating the training data actually got compensation, I’d be fine with it. Everything can be a tool for high effort and low effort content, it’s just increasingly insulting to creators that their work is being stolen and then twisted into something with considerably less effort that makes more money than they could ever hope to make. In other words, dead internet theory.

Other google things that haven’t changed in several eons include:

• Basically anything to do with reporting anything
• The email google sends you when you report an ad (from about 2013-2015, it looks like)
• Anything to do with reporting malicious web pages (that stuff hasn’t changed since 2007, you can check it out at https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/ for the main page and https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_general/ for the Firefox/IE toolbar they haven’t had in years if you want)

It was to report a bug in their email system involving unwanted emails (for instance if they continued sending you email after you unsubscribed from it).

Yep, I noticed that as well. Google has diversified to another industry though recently: AI spam.

http://github.com/ftde0/yt2009 try this

Yep. And I know that from experience.

thanks for reminding me why I use an ad blocker (and why I hate pro-life fuckers)

Well for a start, Lemmy doesn’t, y’know, suck.