Well they own and are currently profiting from coal mines, they don't own solar farm construction companies.

Meanwhile, Dev of company C driving off a bridge, getting laid off after modernizing the 90s era codebase.

Which is a shame, because if I could create tangible loss for Ubisoft by downloading their games, I would do nothing else until they went under.

Do you know how many carts Dukat spared from getting pushed into traffic?

That's one of the wildest ones, like it just bypasses the critical thinking part of their brains. "Yes, there's a town in North Korea surrounded by fake fields, which are harvested by fake farmers. They all live in fake homes and go into a fake school that that has power but don't have any windows."

Only problem is accepting dates in anything except YYYYMMDD, or unix time stamps if you need more precision.

Do they still teach that?

Nobody talks like that and they(singular) has been common since the 1300s.

I disagree about the coherency.

Coherency requires relating symbolic meanings. AI just uses statistical analysis.

Consider if you were locked in the national library of Thailand. You don't speak Siamese, and any pictures or bilingual dictionaries were removed.

Given a thousand years, you could look at the patterns and produce text similar to what someone who writes Siamese would write, but there's still no coherency because you cannot connect the meaning behind any of the words.

That doesn't necessarily mean your outputs are useless though, someone who does read Siamese can have you generate outputs until you print out something they can infer a coherent thought from, but you're fundamentally unable to be trained to do that yourself.

If a human being takes people's work and pieces it together in a way that resembles other works without using any LLM/AI or automation tool, is the final result content theft too?

We're getting into ethics territory. IP is a social construct and we live under capitalism, our model for determining what is and isn't theft should be selected by what supports artists and consumers against capitalists.

Consciousness has nothing to do with it, observe in this case means "affected something we can measure".

Hexbear is one of the oldest lemmy instances, but only recently started federating.

Are you suggesting that for the last 3+ years, someone was running a troll farm where the trolls could only talk to each other?

OK, two things he did right.

The fallout from the sinosoviet split and destalinization can't be overstated though.