You realize that’s a narrative you made up in your head right? There is no evidence that it played out like that at all.

They've boasted that that's how it works. Doesnt matter, seems the parent comment has been "removed", lol.

blaming open ai emps is like blaming current germans for ww2. that sort of collective moral guilt, sometimes even inherited, is simply unfair and stupid. i get that people want to undermine companies' support structure and that their dream is probably to guilt shame open ai's employees into quitting. but it feels like people trying to score points for their own agenda, claim the moral high ground, and label entire groups of people with some sort of guilt by association. its fake. its a game. and they know it.

But we’re not taking about a 80-year gap here (“blaming modern Germans”); we’re talking about people who are in the global top 5% of income and prestige choosing _today_ to contribute to these organizations.

If you believe that your labor is worth something — which I’m pretty sure this crowd does — by working for a given firm, you’re voting with the value of your time in support of what your employer does.

Which, to be clear, is 100% your choice! I’m not going to accuse anyone of being a “bad person” because they decide that stable, high-paying employment is more important than taking a particular ethical (or political) stand at work.

But it _is_ a choice that you make every day by showing up for work.

In my view this is even more relevant for tech workers who receive equity. If you’re a shareholder in addition to being an employee, you’re now voting _twice_ in favor of what management is doing, and benefitting directly from both pay and ownership.

fair point, and i do agree with you. i guess ive seen too many politicians recently with agenda's doing the moral high ground thing and im beginning to see that sort of conduct everywhere. thanks for your reasoned comment. it seems to be a growing problem or maybe im just more aware of it

I don't like the analogy anyway, but why 'current Germans'? Surely 'pre-enrolled rank and file of the contemporary military' would be more apt?

"IBM employee who built the software which effectuated the holocaust while knowing that was what it was being used for" is probably more apt.

us govt and big business have always worked hand in hand, they compliment each other.

They complement each other too, which is more impactul than any compliments they might send.

Some may even claim it's impactful.

you never know, people love to be loved.

this global escalation will be the reason elections are cancelled.

maximize your projection onto like minded commenters, create that bubble you always yearned for but until now have never had the add-on to empower the inner-you! finally, you can ignore that filthy plane of delusional outcasts and banish them to the orthogonal abyss forever.

> Fighting data sovereignty is a losing battle for the US: data are too strategic to outsource, even to allies.

Essentially it comes to this. The only way to force the issue is to make confrontational demands that will just lead to a hard split.

oh thats a good point, kind of like the military or how propaganda demonizes the enemy during a war, its us vs them.

also theyre subject to the same anonymity many other internet users have and so dont feel any consequences for their actions.

big company doesn't want you using something other than their stuff and they'll steal your money and ban you, or similarly, big company wants your data... this happens every day. its nice having choices isnt it? ill just leave this big company and use... oh wait. its another big company.

What a sad story. I feel sorry for this person. But it was very naive to put that data up in the first place. I recently tried to open a FB acct so I could connect with local community but within 2 days I was accused of being a bot and asked to start a video interview with a verification bot. That didn't happen, local community can do without me ;)

insane. interview with a bot.

dropped linkedin after ten years due to an id request.

hurts but if EVERYONE SAID NO it would be better tomorrow.