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by singleshot_ 957 days ago
One other way to look at this is “only people who intentionally invested in crypto lost anything, while creators who were ignorant to or against the idea of ML training set-trawling were injured through no fault of their own.”

Of course, this is not quite true because many people were harmed indirectly when criminal theft of their money was facilitated by the low barrier to entry that cryptocurrency presents to the would-be money launderer.

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Also when pensions managed by Sequoia took the FTX hit. Also when the augmentation of FDIC coverage happened for SVB, taxpayers covered that. Pretty much impossible to avoid unintentionally contributing to the grifters