Because these “assets” are at best hemorrhaging billions of dollars per year, and are also the result of total cultural strip mining. Why would I, as a taxpayer, want to take over a massive, and massively unprofitable business?

I think it’s naive to believe that the government will seize these companies without without a huge amount of taxpayer cash winding up in the hands of big tech companies and their owners.

Let failing businesses fail. Leave the taxpayers out of it

How can they “open source” other people’s work?

The data that they’ve trained on wasn’t theirs to begin with.

Absolutely fucking not.

Nationalizing AI companies represents nothing more than a big tech bailout, leaving the American taxpayers holding the bag for the grandiose excesses, industrialized IP theft, and borderline fraudulence of some of the richest and most powerful corporations in modern society.

Hell no. No bailout for big AI.

They stole everything they have from the people, and if they are too stupid to figure out how to turn unprecedented plagiarism on a global scale into a viable business plan, then they deserve nothing more than to fail outright.

One look at the characters faces show me the same generic generative AI slop eyes and expressions I’ve seen a million and a half times now. On top of that, some very unnatural looking lines.

Just overall a very low effort pun about AI with an equally low effort slop illustration, in my opinion.

Cringe slopcore.

I like that too 😁

That’s a bold strategy cotton…

Would a president have pardoned him, or at least made promises of not seeking a death sentence in pretty sure he would’ve remained in the united states.

Seems unlikely, considering he had already left the US before any charges were filed.

Assurances were made that he would be given a fair trial under US laws, but I don’t think he was planning to return and face the legal ramifications of his actions. I don’t think he ever intended of returning to the United States.

If he was a foreign asset he would’ve not published and tried to remain in place and pass on info from within the NSA. It makes no sense blowing a cover that deep for basically nothing.

I don’t think that’s necessarily true. You can be an “asset” without being a “spy”, or you can be both. If you are acting in the interests, or on behalf of, a foreign country, then you can be considered a foreign asset.

The open question is whether Snowden’s actions were 100% benevolent and in the interest of the American public, or whether there was some degree to which his motives were in the interest of America’s adversaries. Nobody can really answer that question, can they?

But immediately fleeing into the protection of an American geopolitical adversary like Russia certainly raises questions about his motive that aren’t so easy to dismiss.

Keep in mind, I’m not saying this to undermine the information that he publicly leaked. This is purely a question of motives.

Snowden arrived in Russia (where he has remained for 13 years) less than 10 days after being charged by US prosecutors.

That’s a fact. And if that ain’t rapid, I don’t know what is…

Edward Snowden’s passport was annulled before he left Hong Kong for Russia and while that could complicate his travel plans, the lack of a passport alone could not thwart his plans, the U.S. official said. If a senior official in another country or with an airline orders it, a country could overlook the withdrawn passport, the official said.

https://apnews.com/general-news-587786e6e63b4dc2b70c471606d7f584

He said that the media had a responsibility to report on facts rather than fearmongering before the invasion. After the invasion he publicly said he was against it.

I need to see a source for this because I cannot find anything about him speaking out publicly against the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Well, other than the fact that he rapidly fled to Russia (with the help of other Russia-tied Wikileaks shill Assange), where he still lives as a citizen today and functions as a propagandist.

Of course, Assange came up with some story about how he was planning on going to Ecuador but got trapped in a Russian airport, despite the fact that Snowden’s passport was revoked when he was in China. But Assange has proven to not be a reliable source of information, and we all know Russia easily could have delivered him to Ecuador if they wanted to.

The information that Snowden exposed was important and true, but that actually doesn’t exclude the possibility that he was acting in the interest of a foreign power.

It is unarguable today that Snowden is currently a mouthpiece of the Russian government, who he is living under the protection of. (For example, he called the imminent invasion of Ukraine by Russia a “disinformation campaign” and has been unwilling to talk about it since then.) Snowden is a Russian agent today. So it’s not entirely unreasonable to suggest that he may have been acting on their behalf before, as well.

They’re planning on it. They want nothing more than to go public and leave retail investors and retirement plans holding the bag.

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Call me cynical, but I think this is an attempt to do the bare minimum in an effort to preempt laws being put in place.

Donald Trump did it.

I stroke a had

Correction: the AI bubble WILL burst. It’s not a matter of if but when…

There’s no way that the economy as it stands today is sustainable. Never before has so much money been invested in a unprofitable industry that has no business null

Unless we all someday learn to eat, sleep, shit and fuck AI, it cannot be the alpha and omega of the future economy.

While I think there’s some merit to the idea of talking about the fediverse on corporate legacy social media platforms, I think the best and most effective thing we can do is put in extra effort to engage with the fediverse itself, making posts and comments, building up new communities, and so on.

Reddit is no doubt getting worse and more closed off all the time. They treat their users like shit, or at least, like a resource to be harvested for profit.

But at the same time, Reddit users will sit around complaining about the platform until the cows come up, but when it comes time to do anything about it (like, for example, go check out the fediverse…) they don’t ever take any action. And this problem isn’t unique to Reddit either, people just love to complain about X on X, complain about Facebook on Facebook, complain about Tiktok on Tiktok, etc. It’s hard to tell how much of that is just performative internet shit vs genuine addiction to their particular algorithm of choice, but in my view it’s a real problem…

In other words, the question is “where we should be spending our energy?”

Should we be spending it on Reddit, trying to convince a bunch of people (who frankly range from ambivalent to straight-up addicted) that Reddit sucks? Or should we spend it here on the fediverse building the communities from the ground up?

Did two planes collide while refueling? I wonder how many people died…

Draining our reserves, what could go wrong.