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  • They are. They record the data, stealing it. They search it (or characteristics of it), and reprint it (in whole or in part) upon request.

    Viewing it as something creative, or other than a glorified remixing machine is the problem. It’s a search engine for creative works they’ve stolen, and reproduce parts of.

    They search the data-space of what they’re “trained” on (our content, the content of human beings), and reproduce statistically defined elements of it.

    They’re search engines that have stolen what they’re “trained on”, and reproduce it as “results” (be that images or written text, it has to come from our collective data. Data we created). It’s theft. It’s copywrite fraud. Same as google stealing books (which they had to he sued over the digitizing of, and enter into rights agreements over).

    Searching and reproducing content they’ve already recorded (aka stolen without permission), is absolutely part of what they are. Part of what they do.

    Don’t stan for them or pretend they’re creative, intelligent, or doing anything original.

    The real lie is that it’s “training data”. It’s not. It’s the internet, and it’s not training - it’s theft, it’s stealing and copying (violating copyright). Digital stealing, and processing into a “data set”, a representation or repackaging of our original works.





  • Oh it’s the same shit as feudalism, but with technology… Thanks for letting me know that’s what Techno-Feudalism means. So glad we had this enlightening conversation to figure out those two words. I guess we could add “global” to the front of it so you know it’s not just happening in a castle in 14th century Europe, but all across the planet.

    Like, how many castles were in Europe? Okay, compare that to how many Amazon’s there are? It’s not the same thing at all

    Sorry, I don’t have time for this mind dulling discussion.

    “Guns are just metal sling shots with technology! Bullets should be called rocks! They’re just rocks! It’s no different than throwing a snow ball which is why I should be allowed down range at the shooting range!”

    “War is just a big fist fight! I wanna talk about swords!”

    Yah. Bye!


  • Techno-Feudalism is a specific idea from Yanis Varifakous, about places like Amazon, Ebay, AliExpress, Steam, Facebook, even YouTube to some extent. It has to do with the Market Place controlling which prices are promoted to buyers and sellers, and is about price fixing and capturing industries that the bulk of the population require to do commerce.

    This is a very important concept to note and understand because it relates to the end of two party Capitalism (where buyers and sellers negotiate prices with each other directly).

    So no, the use of fuedalism isn’t to indicate something about old school mechanisms of war, weaponry, brutality, or repression. It’s a reference to the role of economic serfdom and the economic aspects of fuedalism. Comparing those particular aspects to the modern roles of content creators, drop shippers, and consumers. All of whom are forced through the economic lens of markets which are owned or controlled by billionaires who have captured/own these required marketplaces.