2024-06-22
Imagine the deep moral vacuity you'd have to have to use the phrase “shouldn't have” here. Like it was somehow WRONG or IMMORAL for creative people to get paid for their work. Work that OpenAI has pirated to fuel their immoral, unethical machine. Deeply, deeply repugnant worldview. [embedded post]
Wall Street Journal
Research: the number of freelance jobs on platforms like Upwork, in areas where generative AI excels, have dropped by as much as 21% since ChatGPT's debut
There's now data to back up what freelancers have been saying for months — Jennifer Kelly, a freelance copywriter in the picturesque …
2024-05-10
From this interview, it seems that his vision was a defederated system where the company has no liability for anything and his big grouse with Bluesky was that they decided to actually moderate. — Thrilled he's gone. [embedded post]
Pirate Wires
Q&A with Jack Dorsey on his exit from Bluesky to focus on Nostr, Bluesky “repeating all the mistakes we made” at Twitter, Musk's takeover, censorship, and more
jack dorsey on his exit from bluesky, how twitter lost its way, jack's strategy for ending censorship forever …
2023-07-29
Gross. [embedded post]
Decrypt
The British Museum partners with Ethereum-based metaverse game The Sandbox to create NFTs showing the museum's collections and offer “new immersive experiences”
The cultural institution plans to establish an interactive space within the Ethereum-based world, as well as offer up NFT collectibles.