Article note: Academia. ML bullshit might be the bullshitiest, but from where I'm sitting, the goodheart-artifact behavior is the rule, not the exception.
Article note: No, it's worse. The more fragmented and incomplete each service becomes, the more piracy becomes an attractive option. If they spend their energy squabbling for exclusives, they all lose.
Please, please, stop referring to yourselves as ‘consumers.’ OK? ‘Consumers’ are different than citizens. Consumers do not have obligations, responsibilities, and duties to their fellow human beings. And as long as you’re using that word ‘consumer’ in the public discussion, you will be degrading the quality of the discussion we’re having, and we’re gonna continue to be clueless going into this very difficult future that we face.