There are some common ground rules what people consider illegal. You cannot cover every countries’ rules, of course, but blatant copyright violations, CSAM distribution, doxxing data is something most people can agree on.

And the jurisdiction of the location of the server is an important point, too.

Selfhosting has more reasons than “just” evading rules one does not like.

Well, it’s not that they hadn’t insurance, but it was too low to cover the damages. Someone saved a lot of money… or not.

Except for the rich, of course.

As if that would stop an AI agent.

Biggest theft he ever made. That deal was a steal!

Apart from all that, what would prevent an AI knowledge thieving tool from using an actual account on Reddit?

MS Windows and MS Office is also “made in USA”.

Do you really believe they just throw all the training data away after use?

If Doe is actually recognizable, then chances are high that actual pictures of her or him were used for training the AI. Wouldn’t surprise me. They scrape the internet for everything they can get their digital hands on, regardless of copyright or criminal law. They are bound to find illegal stuff on that track.

The next thing is that there are probably confidential data in the training sets, either exposed by neglient users, or by hackers that breached sites and blackmailed them.

And of course all the copyrighted material they used without permission.

If AI companies would really get sued on those three illegal sources, they could probably close their doors.

Signed, but be careful, the website is shitty and does not let you out with the back button.

He took the risk of pissing off the masses for profit. And it looks that he now faces the consequences.

He simply cannot do anything but in the dumbest way.

Ah, OK. That’s why they are pissed off.

Just like with the infamous “Gulf of America”, the world will not care besides laughing about the Americans.

Could anyone explain what this xcancel is/does for someone who never used twitter?

In a nutshell, yes. Stock Windows has become even more useless over the years, and installation has obviously become a pain in the ass. I don’t envy our IT department.

I ran linux with ext2, no timeshift, and home on the root partition. Back then when I ran the machine on kernel 0.97.

One place to look at are web sites dealing with company bankruptcies. They are good for purchasing electronics and tools.

Back when windows and office licenses were bound to a sticker with a key number, I bought a stack of broken laptops for 10€. They were leftovers from an auction - nobody wanted them. I removed and tested RAM and harddisks, and then cut out the bottom of those laptops where the license stickers were. I sold each set of licenses, Windows and Office, for 10€ each, making a good profit. And kept the RAM and HDs that worked for my own use.

For once, the law was working.

A bit pricy for home use with 8-10k bucks…