Matt Timson

Largely unmonitored account. Please come and find me elsewhere on the internet - links below. A.I. is for bedwetters and losers.

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Just imagine being the richest man on the planet and still being a massive loser…

#ElonMusk

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@tim3900 @Martina @LoisTho10276725 You’ve never heard the expression “salting the Earth,” then?

Spoiler: it’s not a good thing.

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@Keir_Starmer You couldn't harness a donkey - but you'll cheerfully throw tens of thousands of creatives under the bus for money, you disingenuous little twerp.

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@truestormyjoe @elonmusk People talking about needing the algorithm for monetisation… this thread is FULL of blue ticks. You ARE the monetisation.

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@Dadto7Tech Guess that one flew right over your head, eh?

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@Charlie51185603 @TimothyBalding @implausibleblog (although, IMO, Spotify don't pay artists nearly enough - but those artists can at least say no)

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@Charlie51185603 @TimothyBalding @implausibleblog Then that's where we will always disagree. Tech firms are literally complaining they can't operate without free access to copyrighted works. Even Netflix and Spotify pay for that - and the artist really does have a choice about whether or not they want to be involved.

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@Charlie51185603 @TimothyBalding @implausibleblog Cards on the table: if every working model was scrapped and rebuilt, from the ground up, with work from artists who deliberately opted in (and who were paid for their contributions), I’d be mostly okay with that. That won’t happen, though - because it’s just too expensive.

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@CalumAWatt @ruslana_rv That's the thing - most of these people just don't see it impacting them.

"I'm a plumber/plasterer/delivery driver - AI won't affect me."

What do they think we're going to be retraining as? Astronauts? We'll either be taking their jobs, or driving pay down. They'll care then.

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@RhonddaBryant
Chris, this is absolutely not a “win win” - it should be opt-in, not opt-out. The less said about letting them get away with having stolen our work to get this far, the better.
UK proposes letting tech firms use copyrighted work to train AI https://t.co/N294QCuft2

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@CarolineMack18 Or, somebody with no time for disingenuous discourse. Please enjoy your day - I won’t be in it. 👍

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@CarolineMack18 @stephaniem0805 @CarolineLucas @euromove Not as much as you seem to love non-sequiturs.

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@stephaniem0805 @CarolineMack18 @CarolineLucas @euromove As of two days ago, I can no longer sell my books or art in the EU without a dedicated EU representative - something that just isn’t viable for most one-man bands.

These people are thicker than custard.

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@kelvmackenzie Yeah… I’ve always wondered what it must be like to be an absolutely irredeemable tosspot… 🤔

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@girlsreallyrule I’m sure she’ll take that with her usual good grace…

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Ah, Twitter. You were great at one time - but all things must pass…

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@Trad_Husbun @MaxQtum @MeidasTouch Maybe you need to work on your reading comprehension?