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Bots telling bots that humans aren't human...
There's an easy solution to this:
Legislation that requires giant trillion dollar companies actually employ living breathing humans who can perform a task rather than automate it despite that not working and then just not caring.
And people are going to say that's hard...
But all we need to do is pass a single law that says if AI fucks up, the CEO of the company is personally and financially liable because he's the one that ultimately entrusted the task to AI.
Do that, and suddenly corps wouldn't hand everything to AI as intentional incompetence.
If we don't do it soon, corps will just blame AI for everything and declare no one is ever at fault
An AI can never be held accountable, therefore an AI must ~~never~~ always make a management decision.
I mean, the concept of a corporation was created as a consequence dodge to begin with…
Kind of?
Like a thousand years ago in Italy the concept started.
A guy with a bunch of money, would give a guy with no money and a boat the funds to buy cargo and ship it.
If something bad happened the guy with the boat an no money was liable for the loss of cargo, and wouldn't have the funds to pay, they'd just go bankrupt.
If nothing bad happened, the guy with no money paid back the investor plus profits.
Then it evolved into government enforced monopolies like "East India Trading Co".
Which are more like modern corps, but less like what you're talking about but I'm pretty sure that's what you meant and not the earlier Italian corporations?
I think you are missing hundreds of years of progressive corporate lawyering to entrench their business model(s) into our society.
Take the US for example. Originally corporations had to be for the public good, were time limited, and the owners were held directly financially accountable for their decisions.
It took hundreds of years of court cases and lobbying to get to the point where we are now and it is absolutely insane. There is a reason the corporation has become the dominant form of our culture.
The system is working as intended
Legislation. A famously easy to advance and trivial to enforce solution to any social problem
They do. If you or I submit a claim it will go through the process. They have an automated process for the "big boys" that is not the legal copyright process, but it is faster and cheaper for both - it looks like the process, but it isn't.
I'd settle for the government prosecuting every false copyright claim as perjury.
You say that because you're not think of all the times corps beat a valid claim...
Meaning suing a corp now opens you up for criminal charges if you don't win, and less people challenging thru court.
You might be better off asking if something would be a good idea, before thinking of something and immediately recommending it despite not thinking about how it would obviously backfire and end up fucking us over more.
Not necessarily. The standard of proof is different. Just because you couldn't prove to the civil standard (on the balance of probabilities) that they infringed your copyright, it doesn't mean the claim was false to a criminal standard (beyond reasonable doubt).
First you said every one...
Now you're saying just some...
This isnt going to be productive, best of luck with your future endeavers. But I won't be available to answer any other questions.
no worries, I didn't sign any of those contracts and loans. ai did. get AI to pay it back
Sure, that would work, but what are the odds we can get the government to do that? It is zero.
We could do it ourselves by leaving these platforms and making our own. Is that not what what we were trying to do on the fediverse here? Why don't we get off of our asses, myself included, and make something better? Open source.