As much as I like to joke about it, that sounds like a legal nightmare... an AI making all decisions of a company, so now there's even less accountability than before
People are upset about the lack of regulation, the fact that these companies have been allowed to scrape everything ever and make a commercial product with other people's creations without agency or payment
This is certainly what I'm upset about.
It's mass intellectual property theft on a level that's never been seen before, yet there's been minimal Government action against it - and since everybody affected has been left to fend for themselves, only the giants who can afford it have any meaningful legal defence against it.
Amongst the sheer number of initiatives and councils being pulled out of, concerningly many of them relate to the enforcement of international law, and to human rights in general.
If the US was planning on violating international law (again) anytime soon, this would certainly be a good indicator for it.
I wouldn't be surprised to see Donny J make good on his threats. Question is how will that play out when both parties have nukes and might be willing to use them.
Looks like the US is intent on starting this year with a bang.
The list is HUGE and spans across so many agencies and so many disciplines it's absurd.
I mean FFS does Donny J actually mean to tell us that the "Science and Technology Center in Ukraine" runs contrary to US interests?
If that's actually true - that doesn't spell good things for the US's future intentions for Ukraine.
Also a few of these are rather telling of the current trajectory of the US's policies:
Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals, and Sustainable Development;
Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services;
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
International Renewable Energy Agency;
International Union for Conservation of Nature;
UN Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries;
For starters this is a metric fuck tonne of environmental initiatives to pull out of, and shows the Republican-led US is going to be making a generational push towards screwing over the environment.
... And then some other notable initiatives:
Freedom Online Coalition;
Global Forum on Migration and Development;
Global Counterterrorism Forum;
International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property;
International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance;
International Institute for Justice and the Rule of Law;
UN International Law Commission;
UN International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals;
UN International Trade Centre;
UN Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary General for Children in Armed Conflict; Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict; and Secretary-General on Violence Against Children;
UN Democracy Fund;
UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women;
It's rather concerning how many of the councils the US is pulling out from relate to international law, upholding democracy, and to human rights in general.
With how redacted the files have been so far they hardly need releasing. Would be more effective and informational to tell people to close their eyes and imagine what the Epstein files look like.
... Unless someone else at the DOJ feels like botching up some digital redactions again. Would be nice.
Sounds like a great idea. Meet our popation's power demand by helping to weaken the Earth's magnetic field - which is currently busy protecting us from hostile-to-life electromagnetic radiation.
Honestly, I think consumers allowing manufacturers to start integrating screens into cars was a mistake.
Knobs and dials are way easier to nevigate blind (whilst focusing on the road like we're meant to), and none of that stops you plugging in your own third party device for other features, or replacing the headboard yourself.
Giant tablets with complex menus are dangerous to drivers, and only serve to milk the consumer for things they already had access to in their car as standard not 10 years ago.
The NHS is chronically underfunded, because every successive UK government is determined to make the NHS do more with less - and at some point something has to give, which is why service declines every winter despite it being the same story every year, because the money isn't there to prevent it
Yeah, the real answer is that they'd just ignore it- because even though what they're doing is flagrant copyright abuse, unless you've got an army of lawyers like Disney, you'll go bankrupt going after them.
What you can do is play dirty. If you have your own website, make an AI Tar Pit. Make your website not just useless to AI, but actively malicious towards it.
Personally I don't think the feature consolidation was the problem. It IS still nice to have my music library, a camera, and a fairly capable computer all able to fit in my pocket...
The problem is we consolidated around specific device makers, letting them get too big and too comfortable - we've gone from being customers to being money chattle.
Valve could've legitimately done nothing and still be winning in comparison to the big three, but instead they've slowly and steadily been helping the gaming community to give Windows the middle finger by making huge contributions to Linux gaming.
Honestly, its downright shameful how many companies have forgotten that a good way to make money from customers is simply to treat them nicely while they're buying your goods.
Edit: Changed basically the whole comment, as you're right. I looked at the Blog, and it does state in his FAQ that he had a backup. Which frankly makes a significant part of the article completely BS - as it makes multiple heavy implications that he didn't have any backup.
This apparently happened with “no explanation and no recourse,” putting “terabytes of family photos” and their entire message history out of reach, as well as preventing the ability to sync work across devices.
He has copies elsewhere, so why would he be worried about losing access to this data.
Also, the end of the article discusses not storing all your data in one place...
If you store your photos and files in a single place, it’s a good idea to back them up to multiple locations to protect against something going wrong. But with how integrated devices are these days, it’s hard to avoid having all your apps, purchases and media within a single ecosystem. In cases like that, there’s not a lot you can do.
So it wouldn't be wrong of most people to walk away from this article with the assumption that he didn't have a proper backup strategy.
As much as I like to joke about it, that sounds like a legal nightmare... an AI making all decisions of a company, so now there's even less accountability than before