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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

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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 dou…

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

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> 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?

I'd suggest building a time machine and going back to register threads.com.

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

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

This, especially given the same switch happened with twitter handles as well.

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

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post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 dou…

When a company is known for being malicious by default, to the point of knowingly covering up their ongoing and extensive contributions to teen suicides, it is not unreasonable for people to expect they would steal social media accounts to suit their interests. They are pure unadulterated evil. They are guilty until proven innocent at this point.

I disagree, this is an unreasonable and almost certainly incorrect thing to assume happened in this case.

The fact that one hates XYZ is not a good reason to turn one's brain off and lose the ability to think rationally about XYZ.

In fact, I would argue that there's never a good reason to turn one's brain off and lose the ability to think even moderately intelligently.

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

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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.

Well in a decent society you can't take things that aren't yours. Nobody using Muse the tool knows or gives a fuck who Muse the band is, the band itself is twice their age. At 32 years a band is reaching Spinal Tap stage and they could probably use the cash. Occam's razor and all that.

Talk about sour grapes. Muse remains ridiculously popular and I will bet my bank account that there are more Muse fans than slop enthusiasts.

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

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> 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.

my reason for believing they were paid is that the band has not been making a stink about it
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