@crystal717@mastodon.social · Oct 8, 2026 · 2:54 PM
@cmdr_nova I'm pro-piracy. But I don't say "VLC is just a tool".
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There's a lot of legit concerns about how billionaires are using AI, but leftists deciding that pirating things is now bad is one of the craziest heel-turns I've seen since 2020
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If "AI is just a tool"* then why don't you use it just like any other tool: without the harvested human output of the entire open internet, pirated media, millions of now destroyed books, private conversations, video calls, cloud documents, ...
(*we both know what kind of AI it refers to...)
#fuckai #ai
(*we both know what kind of AI it refers to...)
#fuckai #ai
Oct 8, 2026 · 2:40 PM GMT+0000 · quote
https://mkultra.monster/users/cmdr_nova/notes/93d2ba2b52ef3d25
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@crystal717@mastodon.social · Oct 8, 2026 · 2:56 PM
@cmdr_nova There are also such factors as scale and monetization, and obscuring the very existence of original work, which makes one piracy different from another.