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But at least they harvested tons of biometric, personal, behavioral and health data connected to account names and numbers to sell to data harvesters, merchants, hackers, governments and other ill intentioned groups, right?? So not all a loss.

Well I didn’t vote for Reuters

Yep, and the concern shouldn’t just be for yourself - authorities will clone the phones and then comb your contacts and social media and then add to their systems compiling relational data and use that to target people, often innocent people. Your phone data won’t just be used to harass or inconvenience or stress you out, it’ll be used to harm other people. You should care about that.

I’ve been an artist for over 4 decades, studied art, taught art… and you are correct. While AI almost assuredly won’t be revolutionizing art, music, movies, culture (beyond a temporary “ai is so neat, lol” trend), it doesn’t have to in order to collapse those industries. Those industries move in cycles and a shit ton of elements, trends are repeated throughout history. So while occasionally an artist or group of artists change everything and redirect the course of their fields, things always cycle back to some basic ideas and forms that previous generations have already explored, so humans are move than happy to just enjoy what’s already been, slightly tweaked. Every story is in Homer’s Odyssey, or in Shakespeare’s prose. Every advert uses basics elements to entice, to attract, to maintain attention, to be memorable. Every genre of music builds on the same chords and fuses elements from generations past.

Ai doesn’t have to innovate and reinvent entire industries, it just has to “disrupt” them enough by getting good enough to be just good enough, and that will make already slim profit margins and already bare markets untenable for already starving artists. All that will be left will be those that are already rich, already entrenched and employed by the largest corporations that pay for artisanal craftsmanship, or those that are wealthy enough to cosplay as serious artists for self gratification. None of those will produce satisfying art, none will do it for necessity, they’ll do it for selfish and opulent reasons, which results in soulless and gauche art that might as well never be seen by the public and just circulate the walls of the private spaces enjoyed solely by the ruling class.

Soapy tiddies

And arresting dissenters and innocent bystanders

I agree with all your points EXCEPT a solo artist automatically getting ignored by me or blocked or whatever. If I had assumed that of Beck if he were a new artist today I’d have missed out on one of the greatest artists of modern music. I make sure I understand who they are and how they produce music before I put them in the permanent trash can.

The customers can tell and the ones who have the ability to look elsewhere do, leaving only low quality and desperate customers.

Same, I was gonna say well I didn’t vote for ‘im, but after reading the article now I just want the best for the people who rose up against the Microsoft subsidiary.

I’m doing my part by only eating animals that are assholes

Take my onion off, what, do you think I’m made of bumblebees?

Don’t give a listen to Dexter and the Moonrocks, my guy, they have a song about how the ancient music of the 90s and nirvana in particular crafted who the singer came to be. It made me feel arthritic and shake my fist at the clouds.

You’re absolutely correct! My bad, but you showed real initiative and creativity bucking the legacy system and blindly following a known flawed and hallucinatory system reliant on outdated information in order to perform military maneuvers with mass casualty level ordinances! Would you like me to write up a list of ways we can spin this as Joe Biden’s fault?

How about we just don’t suck the dicks of authoritarian wannabe dipshits that have proven they can’t secure any information properly and can’t run any institution properly?

Probably because he was with some of them trading Pokémon cards at the time, couldn’t have been him, everyone has a doppelgänger