What do "Power Tool Institute," the “Irrigation Association,” the “Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers” & tractor companies have in common? They’re lobbying against military right to repair legislation

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Appliance and Tractor Companies Lobby Against Giving the Military the Right to Repair

The U.S. military deals with the same repair monopolies consumers do.

After months of digging and reporting, I have learned where Facebook's bizarre AI spam (like "Shrimp Jesus") comes from, who is making it, how it works, and how it is monetized. Turns out Meta is directly paying people to spam FB with this stuff

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Where Facebook's AI Slop Comes From

Facebook itself is paying creators in India, Vietnam, and the Philippines for bizarre AI spam that they are learning to make from YouTube influence...

New: OpenAI—a company that has indiscriminately scraped vast amounts of human knowledge to build a company valued at roughly $80 billion—has made a copyright complaint against the ChatGPT subreddit because it used OpenAI’s logo.

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OpenAI, Mass Scraper of Copyrighted Work, Claims Copyright Over Subreddit's Logo

“It does not seem wise for OpenAI to start enforcing copyright claims,” one Redditor wrote.