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by jgerrish 543 days ago
It's unfortunate that the UnitedHealth Group death has fanned the flames of this hatred of corporations.

Artificial Intelligence is going to change how we work. Many top software engineers on Hacker News may be ok for a while. Although everyone could use help.

But already many artists and junior engineers feel pressure. Lack of copyright protection can make that even worse for many. These are allies and people who we mentor.

Just brainstorming, Social Purpose Corporations could provide innovative co-op opportunities for artists and engineers. That's just one example.

I don't see the management class failing to forsee the financial reality in the global workplace. But I do worry about dependents facing division and hate. Bully that, right?

I can't fucking forsee every possibility, traps and all, though. Maybe not social purpose corporations but just hyper-incubators that enable a million small indy corps. Man, I'm imagining Jar Jar binks manning the hyperspace lychgates across from the content generators.

Sorry, stupid digression. I'm sorry for wasting cycles on that.
3 comments
paulryanrogers 543 days ago
Corporations have earned all the hate they get, UHC even more so.

Whether AI decimates the likelihoods of everyone is only more likely with unchecked corpo power in control of everything.

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LocalH 543 days ago
"AI" is like anything else. Big capital will weaponize it to further entrench themselves and further disadvantage smaller businesses and individuals, in the pursuit of increasing profits and growth.
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matheusmoreira 542 days ago
I hate copyright and would rather see it abolished.

AI is just the latest iteration of endless corporate abuses. They think copyright exists to keep the likes of us in line while they get to do whatever they want. If we infringe copyright, they compare us to raping and pillaging high seas pirates but then they turn around and say it's OK to infringe copyright on a massive scale so long as they launder it via AI first.

I want intellectual property gone so that we can do the same. I want them to be forced to open their weights too.

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