I blow hot air.
Not paid enough to say “no refunds” but given the ability to authorize giving out money for unofficial reasons? If it’s unauthorized, then they’re essentially stealing cash and assuming an extremely high risk of getting fired to avoid confrontation.
I’ve never worked a gas station, but I’ve worked fast food and I would have been fired soooo fast if I were giving out unauthorized refunds. Maybe even prosecuted if the amount was large enough. I’ve seen people fired for less.
Who in their right mind is accepting returns of lottery tickets, scratched or not???
Idk, a tablespoon is the largest spoon-based unit
The headline focuses on the wrong thing. Making a bunch of crappy songs and uploading the to Spotify and other streaming services is perfectly legal, AI or not.
The illegal part is that he created lots and lots of fake accounts that constantly streamed his songs and masked them to look like authentic listens. So much so that he was making $110k per month. That is straight-up fraud, which is what he was arrested for.
It has nothing to do with AI, but that makes more people click on the article.
Tbf, even the worst lemmy user pales in comparison to the worst users of other platforms like elon and spez.
Thing is, it already was ubiquitous before the AI “boom”. That’s why everything got an AI label added so quickly, because everything was already using machine learning! LLMs are new, but they’re just one form of AI and tbh they don’t do 90% of the stuff they’re marketed as and most things would be better off without them.
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So they’re adopting a similar structure to OpenAI, a for-profit company majority controlled by a non-profit organization.
Outrage, yes, but what about decreased usage? What’s the effect on revenue and stock price? C-suite pay?
The interesting question is what happens if Valve is still around after all of us are long gone and there are millions of 150+ year old accounts, many under active use?
If they said or implied anything else, they would lose all leverage. The public couldn’t care less about who owns tiktok, so they need people to think they’ll lose it to have any public support.
You are not too young! Lemmy needs everyone of every age/demographic
But… they aren’t even really in the same market. There’s some overlap, sure, but not entirely.
This is laughable.