This question was recently raised by an excellent thinker and writer I follow (stalk?) on the Internet. Unfortunately, the vast majority of people who use the Internet are by and large unaware that they have sold pretty much all their data (see e.g. “All Your Data Are More Free to Us” or in case that isn’t clear enough try watching the documentary I quoted in “Us OR Them — Whose Job is it to GTFO?” 😉 ) for “free” services they could easily get without selling all their so-called “intellectual property” (as I do for just a few pennies per month). [1]
Although this was just a tangential remark, I wish to expound on it as a foundation to addressing the main topic.
Intellectual property rights are a very newfangled gimmick. Shakespeare had no intellectual property rights. Neither God nor Jesus enforced any intellectual property rights. Socrates preferred to drink poison and suffer a painful death over arguing with simpleton Greek lawyers. Everything we say day in and day out has probably been said before over the many millennia of history which separate our intellectual species from merely more or less sapient humans.
And yet there exist vast publishing companies who can’t seem to have enough intellectual property lawyers willing to stick their noses into all sorts of hard-to-reach places around the clock (yet who will nonetheless charge double the regularly overpriced rates for any inconveniences they can dream up or at least justify according to industry standards).
These are the kinds of companies who are happy to create contractual arrangements for their so-called “free” products and services … and people who are not literate enough to read all the small print are the kinds of suckers who will gladly agree to such contractual arrangements. My hunch is that this population includes innumerable drunkards, drug-addled zombies and wide variety of mental patients.
Some people might refer to such folks as irrational, but I prefer to focus on the media companies they typically become contractually enslaved to. These companies use “made up” names that are completely meaningless and which are used for what many people might refer to as “doing business“. One particular breed of intellectual property lawyers, namely the so-called “trademark” lawyer, specializes in enforcing such businesses’ supposed intellectual property rights (which, as I pointed out above, are anything but God-given).
These irrational media companies [2] have been very busy collecting decades of data from large populations of suckers including untold numbers of imbeciles and have in the meantime worked out a strategy of building so-called “artificial intelligence” out of these immense tanks of slop.
Since these wizard-like irrational media companies have a lot of experience in converting poor suckers into poor slaves to their machines, they probably feel they can do so over and over again and now aim to “sell” their poor machinery to evermore (including some “new and improved”) illiterate masses.
Which brings me back to the main topic:
This shit is depressing. In a world where everyone has a motive in their stories, in their fake pictures and fake images, I don’t want to talk to anyone or see anything posed as real. It’s probably not.
https://bambooandbananas.org/truth-in-writing-ai-and-the-collapse-of-communication
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