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AI Protest in Montreal

53 points · 87 comments · hmokiguess

  1. xutopia · · focus · HN ↗
    Some of their arguments are more than just naive ones.

    They argue that LLMs are stealing our culture to feed it back to us. Can we really argue that they didn't make use of everything we wrote and said online to train their data?

    1. bubblemoth · · focus · HN ↗
      I mean, the CEO of Microsoft would agree with them:

      <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2026&#x2F;09&#x2F;17&#x2F;microsoft-exec-called-ai-scraping-the-largest-theft-of-labor-in-human-history-new-unredacted-filings-reveal&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2026&#x2F;09&#x2F;17&#x2F;microsoft-exec-called-ai-s...

      1. verelo · · focus · HN ↗
        Yeah honestly, I see a future where people start suing for reparations over things like this.
        1. red-iron-pine · · focus · HN ↗
          &quot;I would like my $18 for reddit shitposts, plz&quot;
          1. verelo · · focus · HN ↗
            I bet in many cases, the history of a single reddit account is worth substantially more than $18
            1. red-iron-pine · · focus · HN ↗
              what kinda money we talkin here?
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