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They're Looting the Internet

Last week, Meta revealed (in a motion trying to dismiss an FTC anti-monopoly lawsuit) that Instagram made an astonishing $32.4 billion in advertising revenue in 2021. That figure becomes even more shocking when you consider Google's YouTube made $28.8 billion in the same period. Bloomberg reports that the

The term "use" suggests a level of user control that Meta has spent over a decade destroying, turning Instagram and Facebook into tubes to funnel human beings in front of those who either pay for the privilege of visibility or have found ways to trick the algorithms into showing you their stuff. In March, the company terminated its contract with Cognizant — a sprawling Indian IT contractor, one of the “Big Five” tech body shops, along with the likes of Wipro, Infosys, Tata, and HCL — which, in turn, led to the firing of roughly 50 YouTube Music workers in Austin, Texas. LLMs are a globally-perpetuated act of theft taking place in broad daylight, to the point that OpenAI has told England's House of Lords that " it would be impossible to train today's leading AI models without using copyrighted materials."

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