I may regret this at some point, but I felt the need to put down in writing how I feel about this moment in the tech industry.
It is not kind. You may well be insulted by it. If you are... then you really should question yourself.
WRT copyright: My employer (a large multi-national) requires all employees to take ethics training annually, and it makes a big deal about how ethics are so so important to the company.
Yet they are also going all-in on GenAI, which as you stated cannot exist without violating copyright.
So ethics are important, but we are betting our future on a technology made by doing things that would get an employee fired.
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