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Re: Want your images back? That'll be $5

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Post by signatoremo »

Henchman21 wrote: post #207
827a wrote: post #184

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maturity is recognizing that ninety-eight times out of a hundred, there actually is nothing you can do, because nothing you do will change it. Getting angry means you're letting these people you dislike into your head, controlling your thoughts; why would you be proud of that? In the remaining two times out of a hundred, regulating your emotions by providing them the feedback in a calm, direct manner is as effective…

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> Keep your shitty opinion to yourself.

Look in the mirror and do the same

Re: Want your images back? That'll be $5

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Post by sharts »

root-parent wrote: post #45
okramcivokram wrote: post #18

I have received the email that my photobucket account is going to be deleted, so I've logged in after who knows how many years and got offered the same thing, to subscribe. Instead I've went to close the account and in the process (or somewhere else, don't remember exactly) there was an option to first download all the data which I've used and got the images back (there were just a few as I haven't used the service r…

I predict that in the future, when you cancel an LLM subscription, they will threaten that unless you pay, to fully delete your anonymized chats, they will be public as paid training data. You know ...that is how we managed to offer you such a cheap subscription...

Or they’ll just make it public entirely if you don’t maintain a subscription.

Re: Want your images back? That'll be $5

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Post by [deleted] »

sib wrote: post #229
realityfactchex wrote: post #169

What's the best alternative? Flickr? I don't want to self-host my photos, too much management. I don't want to use Apple or Google or MS Clouds for various reasons. I do want to support a pure-play, independent-ish, profitable, consumer friendly platform. To upload hires shots and have them easy to tag/share/access among those to whom they may be of interest. I expect to pay, but not through the nose. Reliability mat…

You could try SmugMug - I was a happy customer for almost 20 years

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Re: Want your images back? That'll be $5

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Post by gmerc »

Aurornis wrote: post #122
root-parent wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I predict that in the future, when you cancel an LLM subscription, they will threaten that unless you pay, to fully delete your anonymized chats, they will be public as paid training data. You know ...that is how we managed to offer you such a cheap subscription...

I wish there was some easy way to bet against this happening. I would put a lot of money on the side of this never happening for a multitude of reasons, but I bet I could collect a lot of money from cynics and doomers who think this stuff will happen.

There’s no regulatory regime anymore in the US. So there’s no downside to it. It is inevitable.

Re: Want your images back? That'll be $5

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Post by gmerc »

pastor_williams wrote: post #178
dylan604 wrote: post #161

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As a devil's advocate, why do you trust the AI companies to behave as you suggest and not the other way? You say you have multitude of reasons, but list none. We have already seen by example that the AI companies do not care about laws and will circumvent societal norms as long as they get a leg up, so it's not a stretch to think they'd do things like this too.

It isn't just out of the kindness of their hearts that they don't do this. There are laws and regulations. There is also legal risk and reputation. I have to go through a legal and privacy process at my big corp job whenever I want to record a new timestamp and I need to ensure that the data is used appropriately and that it is wiped later. I've only seen these compliance requirements become more onerous over the pas…

“Rule of law”. About that…, come November.

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Post by neonstatic »

Aurornis wrote: post #122
root-parent wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I predict that in the future, when you cancel an LLM subscription, they will threaten that unless you pay, to fully delete your anonymized chats, they will be public as paid training data. You know ...that is how we managed to offer you such a cheap subscription...

I wish there was some easy way to bet against this happening. I would put a lot of money on the side of this never happening for a multitude of reasons, but I bet I could collect a lot of money from cynics and doomers who think this stuff will happen.

There is a way, it's called Polymarket.

Re: Want your images back? That'll be $5

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Post by latentsea »

pastor_williams wrote: post #178
dylan604 wrote: post #161

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a devil's advocate, why do you trust the AI companies to behave as you suggest and not the other way? You say you have multitude of reasons, but list none. We have already seen by example that the AI companies do not care about laws and will circumvent societal norms as long as they get a leg up, so it's not a stretch to think they'd do things like this too.

It isn't just out of the kindness of their hearts that they don't do this. There are laws and regulations. There is also legal risk and reputation. I have to go through a legal and privacy process at my big corp job whenever I want to record a new timestamp and I need to ensure that the data is used appropriately and that it is wiped later. I've only seen these compliance requirements become more onerous over the pas…

> There are laws and regulations

Those worked very for Uber.

Re: Want your images back? That'll be $5

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Post by onel »

This is the kind of story that's push people towards self-hosting.

I don't even have an account with photobucket but I fully feel the pain of this user and I got outraged just by reading this.

I think this kind of SaaS business is going to go the way of the Dodo very soon.

Re: Want your images back? That'll be $5

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Post by account42 »

How about taking some responsibility for not archiving your "childhood memories" yourself?

IMO the main damaged party here is everyone who comes to old forum threads and finds lots of inaccessible images (or images watermarked to the point of being unusable). But then again it was never reasonable to expect image hosts to provide a free service forever.

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