I need Democratic candidates to understand that if they ever want another cent from me, they cannit be throwing trans kids, palestinian kids, iranian kids, american kids under the bus. There is no magical moderate who will suddenly vote dem as long as they can have a little exclusion as a treat.
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OpenAI's President Greg Brockman, when told his company had hacked the NYT paywall to scrape the site, responded with "ah nice."
That's a straightforward criminal violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. OpenAI executives in jail.
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woah. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft.
Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1
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Straight from OpenAI's Brockman and Microsoft's Nadella - 'doom loop' for the entire web [as they vacuum up and substitute the work of journalism and threaten their economic foundations]. /2
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Not good, OpenAI. "Read this NYTimes" article.. "Summarize" this NYTimes article... (NYT content in red). /3
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Blood boiling. Not a good look for OpenAI or Greg Brockman here:
"ah nice" in response to "a hack to get around nytimes paywall" in his efforts "to scrape" The Times website. After many points on his bragging about OpenAI's substitution for news. /4
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The character of Defendants' conduct weighs further against fair use.
The transgressive and deceptive nature of Defendants' efforts to acquire Plaintiffs' content confirms that their purpose in doing so was fundamentally to avoid the cost of acquiring lawful
copies. OpenAI employees devised and implemented strategies to circumvent paywalls without
detection when scraping websites. For example, when Nick Ryder informed Mr. Brockman about
, hack to get around nytimes paywall" to help with Mr. Brockman's efforts to "scrape[]" The
Times's site, Mr. Brockman responded "ah nice." SF791. OpenAI's corporate representative on
the subject was unaware of any "method for detecting paywalled content" in its da…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:azpq3hfq3llpowyqpjkqwgxs/bafkreiguc2tjp3gv7qemp5sphi4dcwxkgiyaeoplbm63hiwvbeehypbqqa)
