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Rock band Muse lose social media handles to Meta’s new AI tool

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Re: Rock band Muse lose social media handles to Meta’s new AI tool

#21

> The exact circumstances surrounding the changes aren't clear. The exact circumstances are that they likely paid them a shitload of money.

You base this off what? We really live in a post truth society where innocent asks for evidence supporting a claim are discouraged.

I am not saying it stolen, merely asking if there is any proof it was bought. And no, “oCcAms rAZOr” is not evidence.

Re: Rock band Muse lose social media handles to Meta’s new AI tool

#23

> The exact circumstances surrounding the changes aren't clear. The exact circumstances are that they likely paid them a shitload of money.

You base this off what? We really live in a post truth society where innocent asks for evidence supporting a claim are discouraged. I am not saying it stolen, merely asking if there is any proof it was bought. And no, “oCcAms rAZOr” is not evidence.

Knowing that people are willing to exchange social handles for money.

Re: Rock band Muse lose social media handles to Meta’s new AI tool

#25

> The exact circumstances surrounding the changes aren't clear. The exact circumstances are that they likely paid them a shitload of money.

I'd love to get paid a ton of money to leave their social shitwork for good. Do they have mastodon or bluesky?

Re: Rock band Muse lose social media handles to Meta’s new AI tool

#26

"lost" is incredibly misleading, as there's no evidence they weren't paid to hand the handles over.

is there evidence that happened (there was payment for handle)?

No, there's no evidence either way. Both are equally possible.

The odds of X forcefully handing a handle over from a user to Meta for an AI product seem lower to me than them being paid for it, but that's not based on anything either.

Using "lost" in a headline is therefore misleading, as it implies a lack of consent where there is no actual knowledge that is the case.

Re: Rock band Muse lose social media handles to Meta’s new AI tool

#27

> The exact circumstances surrounding the changes aren't clear. The exact circumstances are that they likely paid them a shitload of money.

You base this off what? We really live in a post truth society where innocent asks for evidence supporting a claim are discouraged. I am not saying it stolen, merely asking if there is any proof it was bought. And no, “oCcAms rAZOr” is not evidence.

This comment and others like it are wild to me.

Since when was the default to assume malicious activity and victimization, and then to ask for proof otherwise? Obviously we should do the reverse. There should be evidence of theft rather than assuming theft as the baseline.

For starters, if the band's handles were taken non-consensually, then the least we should expect is a public complaint from said band.

This is doubly true in a world where social media handles are routinely bought, sold, and traded. And triply true where the supposed victim of this crime is an incredibly popular group of people with an extremely massive platform, and it's 99.9999% likely that Meta knew this going in.

Re: Rock band Muse lose social media handles to Meta’s new AI tool

#28

> The exact circumstances surrounding the changes aren't clear. The exact circumstances are that they likely paid them a shitload of money.

You base this off what? We really live in a post truth society where innocent asks for evidence supporting a claim are discouraged. I am not saying it stolen, merely asking if there is any proof it was bought. And no, “oCcAms rAZOr” is not evidence.

Probably nothing. But Meta throwing a boatload of money at Muse is probably cheaper and easier than being evil about it.

The problem is, it’s Meta. And like the scorpion said to the frog, “I can’t help it. It’s my nature.”

Re: Rock band Muse lose social media handles to Meta’s new AI tool

#29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You base this off what? We really live in a post truth society where innocent asks for evidence supporting a claim are discouraged. I am not saying it stolen, merely asking if there is any proof it was bought. And no, “oCcAms rAZOr” is not evidence.

Knowing that people are willing to exchange social handles for money.

Many times that's against the TOS? And the names/handles belong to the site not the user anyway. I've seen these deals happen too.

Re: Rock band Muse lose social media handles to Meta’s new AI tool

#30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

is there evidence that happened (there was payment for handle)?

No, there's no evidence either way. Both are equally possible. The odds of X forcefully handing a handle over from a user to Meta for an AI product seem lower to me than them being paid for it, but that's not based on anything either. Using "lost" in a headline is therefore misleading, as it implies a lack of consent where there is no actual knowledge that is the case.

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