DR_Hero
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- Comment on Marvels Rivals requires creators to sign a contract that removes your right to give a negative review to access the playtest 1 month ago:
Collective mass arbitration is my favorite counter to this tactic, and is dramatically more costly for the company than a class action lawsuit.
www.nytimes.com/2020/…/arbitration-overload.html
A lot of companies got spooked a few years back and walked back their arbitration agreements. I wonder what changed for companies to decide it’s worth it again. Maybe the lack of discovery in the arbitration process even with higher costs?
- Comment on Teen deepfake victim pushes for federal law targeting AI-generated explicit content 5 months ago:
Excuse me but, the fuck is wrong with you?
- Comment on OpenAI brings Sam Altman back as CEO less than a week after he was fired by board 7 months ago:
The reason that makes the most sense in one of the articles I’ve read is that they fired him after he tried to push out one of the board members.
Replacing that board member with an ally would have cemented control over the board for a time. They might not have felt his was being honest in his motives for the ousting, so it was basically fire now, or lose the option to fire him in the future.
The other theory I’ve heard going around
- Comment on Every Single Freaking Time 9 months ago:
Now I’m upset this wasn’t the original haha