This is fraud. Their exposure here is not just being sued by clients, though there's that as well, but being charged with one or more crimes, convicted, and going to prison. This was an incredibly stupid scheme, made even more stupid by publicly confessing to it.
Exactly. The tool is incomplete, in a sense, as while it shows the work of original art produced by the AI and the human images it was trained on, it has no way to show the imagery on which the human artists were trained to produce their images. (The model behind a human mind is vastly more complex than that of a deep learning model, but the principle is analogous.)
Microsoft's Irish subsidiary paid zero tax because it owed zero tax—and there's no reason it should have paid, or that this should change in future, apart from the greed and envy of others who want to take money from others to which they are not entitled. Those who are unhappy at the taxes they are paying should perhaps take it up with the tax attorneys and/or legislators who have failed them.
In case you are unaware, tax is needed to pay for schools, universities, research, health care, social care, police, civil infrastructure, environmental agencies, regulators, defence, bank bailouts, pandemic bailouts, etc.
The Big tech firms benefit from all of the above, but are not contributing anything back. The system is broken and needs to be fixed, so let's not pretend there is no problem.
so those who are unhappy with paying taxes should probably stop using roads, schools, hospitals, drainage, defence, police, firemen, universities, grants, etc.
There are a few places where such things do not exist: they don't do very well.
I upvoted you [after the red brigade had had a pass :) ] because you raise an important point: imagine what the tax rates would be if politicians - armed with a police force and judiciary - knew that no other nation could complete by offering lower tax rates?
The corrupt bolsheviks where I live would ratchet it up to 95% in a few years. As would everyone else's government.
It's a clever idea, but how long before border authorities simply order travelers to log on to 1Password and turn off travel mode, or be denied entry? I'm guessing not very.
Is plausible deniability the right term here? Usually that's about the ability to deny having known about or authorised something after it's already been discovered.
I'm not really sure how you'd refer to the concept "they don't know I have it, so they don't know to ask". Security through ignorance?
My thought on this whole situation is to simply not take my phone or laptop. I don't live nor work in the US, however, so I don't have the issues being faced by people in this thread.
The way I would "drop Dropbox" if they or Rice give in to this shameful attack on diversity of thought. Otherwise, thanks in part to this effort, I will remain a loyal Dropbox customer for life.
