> If I build a business based off of consumption of publicly funded data, and that’s okay, why isn’t it okay for AI?
Because when you build it you aren't, presumably, polling their servers every fifteen minutes for the entire corpus. AI scrapers are currently incredibly impolite.
Plenty of public funded data isn't made free and public access. Sometimes you need to pay, or get a license, etc depending on what you're doing with it.
Full automation is also possible by putting your coding agent into a loop. The point is that an LLM that can solve a small task is more valuable for quality output, than an LLM that can solve a larger task autonomously.
We're not going to debate the measuring stick when the stick itself is incapable of measuring the outcome.
In none of those scenarios provided did a sitting US president come close to insinuating acquisition of land by "hook or crook" - either agree with us or we take it.
The closest modern discussion that comes to mind is the PRC saying they could militarily "walk in and take the whole this afternoon" in regard to Hong Kong.
Thatcher, for all her wrongs, provided a salient response:
"There is nothing I could do to stop you, but the eyes of the world would now know what China is like."
The US has shown the world what we're like with the current administration.
I believe Saddam Hussein would disagree with you, if he could.
Just bonkers how basic history is getting rewritten.
"The great satan USA" has been a slogan since the 1960s. The US dropped napalm and agent orange on Vietnamese civilians en masse - Lyndon B Johnson was what, a good guy?
A consequence of that large political movement and its leaders is that numerous people have been murdered. MAGA can't wash its hands of the consequences of its beliefs and actions.
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