D61 [any]

If you live long enough and interact with the world at large, you will eventually be a victim. You might have avoided 99 other scams or situations where somebody was trying to manipulate you but eventually, you’ll fall “victim” to something.

Having a duty to try to keep yourself from being taken advantage of, doesn’t mean that you should be denied help when you finally do get taken advantage of and that help be given without judgment.

“So, what company is this that you’re citing in your work?”

“Oh, uh, they’re from … Canada. Yeah, Canada, you’ve never heard of them.”

refuses to elaborrate further

“Okay then, we will get this published right away.”

There different reasons for wanting privacy or advocating for for personal data privacy and implimenting strategies to support that.

If ever you are in trouble with the state or make the wrong person on the internet angry, the more you’ve publically shared the easier it will be for them to find something to use against you. So… you can try not to get on anybody’s bad side to limit that possibility or you can do your best to compartmentalize your online activities.

It should be possible to ask for help or show vuneralbility online without telling anybody (or thing) absolutely everything about you every time.

Talking about family abuse and dysfunction just doesn’t seem “sexy”, and parents don’t want to hear that any issues their kids may be having have a decent chance of originating with them.

Because the conversation would quickly shift into “why is the system so broken that this happens?” and that leads to “we should change the system that breaks us and forces us to stay broken.” and that just isn’t allowed.

Parents prefer magic wand explanations: that with one sweep of policy, kids’ problems will magically go away and, conveniently, parents themselves were never at fault.

Intergeneration warfare is more a means of keeping us at each other throats instead of noticing that the system we live in seems to be garbage and needs to be replaced. Get rid of social media? Then the blame will shift back to online chat. Get rid of that? Then its back to video games. Get rid of that? Then its pen and paper role playing games. There’s no end to the combinations of “Antisocial Kids” + “Thing in Society” = “That Kid’s Parents’ Fault”

So long as the “theory” isn’t foundational to a person and the person isn’t made to feel too embarrassed at believing the wrong thing… the odds are about 50/50 ish.

I don’t think it is that hard to answer.

If there was no money in doing it, it wouldn’t have happened the way it did. Whether this money is from investors or from monetizing services doesn’t matter in the short term, only that somebody is willing to pay.

They want you to believe that analyzing things without permission somehow goes against copyright,

Whats the purpose of generative AI? Its not just to analyze, its to replicate and mass produce. We’re not talking about some software that is churning through medical data to figure out how to feed premature babies. Its that stupid AI web search answer that is just copy pasted from another website that may or may not have to source where it made its summary from. (usually from a hit that is on the first page of the search results that I’m going to click on anyways)

A person wanting to learn how to do something is different from an AI company wanting to feed its math problem more material to math all over.

Bill wants to learn how to fix a car because its useful to themself and others.

An AI company wanting its chatbot to be able to answer questions about fixing a car isn’t meant to help itself or others fix their car… its to increase the liklihood that investors will give the AI company more money.

They are not the same thing.

As it stands, trying to cite IP law is the best that can be done for people who aren’t transnational conglomerates with yearly revenues in the multiple billions of dollars.

Find some place… as an example, hexbear’s instance has c/slop… to drop a link to the offending user’s comment or post and whatever happens… happens.

You’ve got the option of Reporting the post/comment to the moderators. Which will require you knowing the moderation rules of the community in question to take advantage of.

Short bullet point/talking point responses. Replies with things like, “This is racist/sexist/genocide denial/etc”, then disengage. You don’t need to get into a long drawn out comment war/debat bro situation.

Make fun of them for being a goober.