René's old blog

Category: Politics

  • Spy in your pocket

    Nobody expected the Shining City upon the Hill to cave in to corporate fascism as easy as it did.

    Fascism is, in the words of Mussolini himself, corporativism — the merger of the state with big business.

    With state power and corporate power merged, the little guy and gal will lose. Common people have no real representation in the corporativist state, except as subjects and consumers.

    Now that it has happened, and the Corporate States of America is upon us, what can we do?

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  • Generative AI is theft

    I’m receiving emails from meta that they’re going to use everything I’ve ever posted and shared on Facebook and Instagram to train their generative AI.

    They will steal and exploit everything we’ve ever shared on Facebook and Instagram.

    Generative AI doesn’t create anything. It simply computed the average from a massive set of inputs, after some very clever filtering.

    Generative AI is basically automated plagiarism.

    It is theft — theft of intellectual property on an industrial scale.

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