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Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'

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  1. jacquesm · · focus · HN ↗
    It's the robbery of all of our culture to sell it back to us at a mark-up. Crimes this large are crimes against humanity. So many people whose life's work got appropriated without consideration, compensation or consent it is baffling.

    It is said that at the heart of every great fortune there is a great crime, so it should be no surprise that the most valuable companies on the planet will most likely result from this crime. And given that justice can be bought by those with the most money you can forget about anything coming of this.

    1. JimDabell · · focus · HN ↗
      > It's the robbery of all of our culture to sell it back to us at a mark-up

      Learning isn’t stealing. They didn’t take our culture away from us and nobody is “buying our culture back” from them. We never lost it; it never went anywhere.

      1. franktankbank · · focus · HN ↗
        Imagine someone asks you how to do something at work, you tell them. Then they create a huge packet filled with bullshit about how it got done and now they are your boss.
        1. TeMPOraL · · focus · HN ↗
          It's a shitty move, but ultimately, in between the bullshit narrative, they also did the thing - not you - so the promotion rightfully belongs to them.

          Execution trumps ideas, impact trumps raw effort, and such. Isn't this the entrepreneurial narrative?

          1. franktankbank · · focus · HN ↗
            Sure thats obviously how it works today.

            Now what do I do next time someone comes and asks how to do something?

            1. TeMPOraL · · focus · HN ↗
              Of course you tell them, because you're nice person, and not jealous of someone else succeeding in a thing you aren't even pursuing? You wouldn't want to act like the dog in the manger from the stories.
              1. franktankbank · · focus · HN ↗
                LOL I have no idea about the dog in the manger. You have my full attention, please tell me the story.
                1. TeMPOraL · · focus · HN ↗
                  Sure you do, you probably don't recognize it because it has different names in different places (for me, it's known as "pies ogrodnika" - "the dog of the gardener").

                  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Dog_in_the_Manger" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Dog_in_the_Manger

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