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Bluesky says it won’t train AI on your posts (www.theverge.com)
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[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Public trading... it's capitalism. By law you have to try and extort every penny.

[–] FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Now that I think about it I'm not sure why they had to accept investor money at all. I wonder if it would have turned out differently if they had remained 100% privately owned?

[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 4 points 3 months ago

Because growth... Without the R&D money, Microsoft or Yahoo, or someone else would have figured out how to do what they do faster/better, waited until google was a forgotten name and then enshittified.