AI is not buying rare books in bulk, slicing off their spines, feeding their pages through scanners, or throwing them in the trash. AI does not have hands. The PEOPLE running AI companies are doing this. Theyโre buying these books and ordering them destroyed.
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So if I purchase a DVD and digitize it, thatโs copyright infringement. But if an AI company buys my book and scans it to train their system, thatโs perfectly fine? Once again, corporations are allowed to play by their own rules. Iโm so sick of the hypocrisy.
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Job interviews are always like, โWhat can you do?โ
Sir, Iโm a millennial born in the โ90s. Just tell me what I need to know, and Iโll master it in three days.
My greatest adult disappointment was discovering that there are no consequences. Bad people seem to get away with everything.
No amount of budgeting or saving will fix the fact that we donโt make enough money anymore to keep up with this economy.
Weโre obsessed with the idea that poor people might take more than they need, but we almost never question why billionaires are never satisfied with what they already have.
โYโall hate billionaires, but you want to be rich.โ
Yeah, I want to be rich. I want enough money to live comfortably, help the people I care about, and never worry about bills again. I just donโt want to exploit workers and wreck the planet for money.
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Every few months, I rediscover that drinking two liters of water a day, eating whole foods, walking a lot, and going to bed early actually make me feel amazing. Then the Great Forgetting begins.
The secret to losing weight is eating loads of fruit and vegetables and praying one of them is carrying a parasite so you can get the explosive-diarrhea cleanse.
If you move to a new country, learn the language and make an effort to understand the culture. It's embarrassing to live somewhere for 15 years and still not be able to speak even two sentences in the local language.
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We really had to write an outline, a rough draft, and a final essay by hand. No spell check. No autocorrect.
The Odyssey isn't historically accurate because it's not historical. It's a work of fiction. I don't understand how people can't grasp this very simple idea.
Every time I go to the pharmacy for a prescription, it feels like it's the first day for everyone who works there, and also the first day for the concept of a pharmacy.
I canโt begin to explain how much the phrases โSeize him!โ, โUnhand me!โ, and โYou forget yourself.โ did for the English language.
One of the biggest scams in our society is hotel check-in and check-out times You want me to check in at 4pm, when the day is almost over, but expect me to check out by 11am?
Has anyone rewatched Game of Thrones from the beginning? Because I hate to say it, but they make a pretty strong case that Daenerys showed signs of viciousness, ruthlessness, cruelty, and madness from the very beginning.
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Tom Holland playing Spider-Man and marrying Zendaya is biblical greed.
Saying, โYouโre still a creator if you use AI,โ is like saying, โYouโre still eating if you eat poop.โ
Nothing disgusts me more than when people in movies throw up and then just lay their heads on the toilet seat.
โThe Odyssey movie isnโt accurate.โ Accurate to what? My brother, The Odyssey wasnโt even accurate when it was written.