This paranoia ripple effect is wild. An anonymous user wrote a dumb blog post and claims it is an AI. Nobody knows if it is. The target of the blog post freaked out. Then media started publishing articles talking about how people were freaking out.
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Our tax dollars are hard at work. We subsidize AI's infrastructure and electricity costs, and the companies subsidize AI-powered DMCA spambots.
“The targets included both static pages with no content, and dynamic search query URLs with keywords pre-filled by the complainants that returned no results. This caused a significant amount of work, as our team manually reviews such notices to screen for abuse,” Blythe says.
The number of requests has only increased by 20% or so... but that doesn't account for the number of URLs per request, which, according to this article, sounds gross.
Somebody please tell me that companies are well within their rights to ignore bad actors who are this malicious. That DMCA requests are not basically "guilty until proven innocent".
In this case, the vagueness of the term AI is abused by its fans. "Aha, you claim to hate AI, and yet..." they say. They should know better.
"Chemicals" is actually a great example. If someone said "Chemicals are coming out of that factory", you'd rightfully cringe if a factory manager said "well actually soap is made of chemicals too"
The "gimmick" is proposing alt text based on the image when editing PDFs. I don't see how it's unhelpful.
A gambling toolbar that links to Polymarket could be helpful. But I think we both said "crucial".
If you know someone who uses Firefox to add images to PDFs so often that the alt text generation would be crucial to them, or even more than a gimmick, please introduce me to them. I have so many burning questions. Several things related to "why not a dedicated PDF editor?!"
Then go fix them
Do you really believe Mozilla would accept a pull request to remove AI from their codebase?
You're defending your position that this AI feature is not really AI so it's ok
I literally say "The translation is technically AI," so no. I give reasons how the other features are different, which you seem to acknowledge a little, at least.
the weird gimmick you don't understand is crucial to some
Can you describe how to access the gimmick and which people find it crucial? I'm pretty confident in my understanding of it and how hilariously unhelpful it is.
Do you have the authority to authorize its approval, or are you just trying to shut people up with a thought-terminating cliché
Do I have to give Chick-fil-A credit for actually treating their employees right, or do they just mandate the friendliness?
Don't be so quick to tell off @Melusine@tarte.nuage-libre.fr for posturing! Maybe they genuinely hate all spying, including the spying committed by the CCP here.
If they didn't, then complaining about it would be posturing, wouldn't it, comrade?
Speaking of which, why don't you tell me what you think of the state-sponsored people in this thread? I prefer on-topic discussion over virtue signaling.