A long time ago. Now I just do it on the side but knowing how to fix cars has always been a good “in” to get girls to talk to me but from there I still had to actually get them to go out with me and see where it went. It’s not like I was just straight up trading car repairs for sex.

It’s not totally de-valued. Being able to fix cars has gotten me laid more than probably anything else.

The problem is that they didn’t pay for the content they’ve acquired and they’re selling it to others. The creators are not being compensated and may not want to participate in AI development at all. If the creators agree to it then fine but most do not. Just look at what’s happening with art. People are scraping all of an artists work to create AI pictures in their style and impersonate them. That’s not okay.

I was trying to keep it simple.

I would have paid them by purchasing the iphone and whatever software I used. I paid for the car that transported me. I would have paid for my education. People can also give their work away for free if they want, or be compensated by ads as in the case of Youtube or FOSS.

Current copyright is an utter bastardization of its intended use. Massive corporations are trying to act like they’re fighting for the little guy to own their IP forever. But they buy up all that IP for pennies compared to how they turn around and commoditize it. Then they own all of what society produces in perpetuity. They can sit on their dragon hoards and laugh as they gobble up any new creation that strays too close. And people wonder why everything is a sequel of a sequel of a sequel owned by massive corporations.

What do you think ChatGPT is trying to do? It’s already being used to churn out shitloads of garbage content. They’re not making things better.

If ChatGPT was free I might see their point but it’s not so no. If you’re making money from someone’s work you should pay them.

So we’re still better off without them.

You don’t think the massive amount of repetitive jokes and reposts and overall shitty attention whoring content was a problem on Reddit?

We need fedi to go mainstream to deny corpo trash profits.

Why? Who cares if we don’t have to interact with them? Becoming mainstream was the downfall of Reddit.

Agreed. Look what Reddit turned into. Better to have fewer but higher quality comments than a sea of the same tired jokes and ancedotes over an over again.

Yeah that’s why we’re sending teenagers that don’t sign out to go to the bathroom instead.

We have to get those astronauts boeing stranded up there back somehow…

Vaping is nothing compared to what they could buy with the money they spent on the whatever exorbitant price this surely costs.

It’s not about the vaping it’s about teaching them to not waste public money on stupid shit.

Imagine paying taxes for education and they spend it on shit like this.

On the plus side Spains teenagers are about to become extremely computer literate.