had they not done it at the time, it is likely that someone else would have done it anyway not long after?
I think it’s a safe assumption that most inventions would have been invented by someone else, the opposite is usually the more notable exception. Some things may have been invented and forgotten by history multiple times because of random things like there was no supply chain for copper/steel/coal or w/e back then.
can always respect someone with a well balanced ideology
when I make a meme, I don’t make money.
when I make an AI “”“art”“”, water and power is wasted and datacenters are funded which stocastically increases the cost of residential electricity for regular people.
IDK anything about the liabilities of companies using memes in marketing materials (I assume it’s a legal gotcha that only 0.000001% of uses get punished for).
However, companies using AI art is about using work by artists and stiffing artists. There is the cultural loss of real art in products and the economic loss of jobs.
lol FOSS is winning, if you’re paying $20/month/seat for every calculator app that you might use once, you’re probably the looser.
we’re doing the same thing, but with claude