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Massive surveillance programs won’t stop crime. Instead it will be used to persecute target demographic groups.

Acts of authoritarian control always claim to be done “for the children”. They don’t care about children, they want control.

The article compares Photography, (which despite being “created” by nature is copyrightable), to AI art. The difference between AI art and photography is that AI art is derivative of other artists and generalized into a Model. Nature is not derivative of other photography. Derivative work has special exemptions in copyright law which prevents it from being subject to copyright.

You must not only take carefully managed risks, but you must take the correct risks.

I was just trying (and failing) to imagine a distribution and development framework which was limited to those entities which agreed with a set of social parameters.

Fascists always use “protecting children” as the rationale for implementing mechanisms of social control. Their willingness to allow school shootings shows that they really don’t care about protecting children at all.

That’s alot of effort to go from one horrible programming language to another horrible programming language.