Comment on Google Serving AI-Generated Images of Mushrooms Could Have 'Devastating Consequences'

Orbituary@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• TheTechnician27@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Not technically a paywall FYI; just gated behind free registration. Still of course annoying.

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  • Orbituary@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Oh, gee. We have to enter an email and give them data points. Cool.

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    • TheTechnician27@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      ? I’m saying that’s not what a paywall is by definition, not defending it as a practice. It’s arguably even dumber since at least a paywall means you’re directly financially supporting an outlet. This is just scuzzy for no real reason.

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      • notfromhere@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Don’t get in the middle of an angry mob and their target lest ye become their target, or something.

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    • rimu@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Not in this case

      https://www.404media.co/why-404-media-needs-your-email-address/

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  • xor@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    you pay in ways other than money…
    i.e. forced registration is still paywalled… (and there’s usually an article limit or some such after that)

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    • TheTechnician27@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      This mental gymnastics definition of a paywall is not widely accepted. I was pointing out a small mistake. Is my website paywalled because you need to spend electricity to access it? A paywall is one where a monetary transaction is involved to view the content.

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      • xor@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        wow, i didn’t know words became immutable as soon as they’re added to wikipedia….
        or that monetary compensation is the only way to pay someone….
        …
        fantabulous

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• fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  github.com/bpc-clone?tab=repositories

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