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Fake AI law firms are sending fake DMCA threats to generate fake SEO gains
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Re: Fake AI law firms are sending fake DMCA threats to generate fake SEO gains
#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well it's just, like, the biggest VC in the world for investments and popularity? And yes, that is extremely sad.
I mean, the biggest firms are generally just shitshows of FOMO and so on. The second biggest, Sequoia, was all in on FTX and Sam Bankman-Fried right up until the collapse.
Sequoia put out a PR piece about SBF [1] a few months before it all blew up, and it's pretty amazing, and has made it a lot easier for me to believe that VC partners are maybe not necessarily that smart:
> [Sequoia partner Michelle] Bailhe remembers it the same way: “We had a great meeting with Sam, but the last question, which I remember Alfred asking, was, ‘So, everything you’re building is great, but what is your long-term vision for FTX?’” That’s when SBF told Sequoia about the so-called super-app: “I want FTX to be a place where you can do anything you want with your next dollar. You can buy bitcoin. You can send money in whatever currency to any friend anywhere in the world. You can buy a banana. You can do anything you want with your money from inside FTX.” Suddenly, the chat window on Sequoia’s side of the Zoom lights up with partners freaking out. “I LOVE THIS FOUNDER,” typed one partner. “I am a 10 out of 10,” pinged another. “YES!!!” exclaimed a third. What Sequoia was reacting to was the scale of SBF’s vision. It wasn’t a story about how we might use fintech in the future, or crypto, or a new kind of bank. It was a vision about the future of money itself—with a total addressable market of every person on the entire planet. “I sit ten feet from him, and I walked over, thinking, Oh, shit, that was really good,” remembers Arora. “And it turns out that that fucker was playing League of Legends through the entire meeting.” “We were incredibly impressed,” Bailhe says. “It was one of those your-hair-is-blown-back type of meetings.”
There's plenty of other stuff in there. It's not just pumping up a promising bet that went bad, it's hagiography on a scale that is almost impossible to believe, approved by an organization that is really supposed to know better.
Re: Fake AI law firms are sending fake DMCA threats to generate fake SEO gains
#33The article doesn't explain how the backlinks part of the scam works.
“Back links” are a critical part of SEO: if a lot of websites link to your website, then your website will rank higher.
By mandating with “legal threat” that they link to a particular website, that website will rank higher.
Re: Fake AI law firms are sending fake DMCA threats to generate fake SEO gains
#34Re: Fake AI law firms are sending fake DMCA threats to generate fake SEO gains
#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
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That's a needlessly harsh judgement! To use an analogy, one should reasonably be able to attend a forensics conference without ending up as a forensics case themselves. Also, generative AI isn't just for creating fakes.
Harsh judgement maybe but to me paying $500 for tickets to a convention about anything is drinking the kool-aid about that thing.
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#36The root problem is that the legal system is completely inaccessible and non-existent to individuals or small companies. Even to medium companies. Only mega corps and law firms can afford to use the legal system. Even big tech often avoids it because of the expense, but if they do use it, they’re going to win, 99.9% of the time because of their war chests So, people are semi defenceless when these things come up, and…
> completely inaccessible and non-existent to individuals or small companies. Even to medium companies. Only mega corps and law firms can afford to use the legal system. For individuals you have a point, but for small and medium companies this seems like an exaggeration. I've worked for several startups. The smallest was one that I co-founded with no outside funding - we maxed out at five employees, three of whom wer…
> One of these bogus DMCA claims would be easily and cheaply dismissed by any competent lawyer.
If you're a new small business owner how do you vet lawyers for competency? If you accidentally engage a less then competent lawyer who screws up, how does that impact the individual and company?
Re: Fake AI law firms are sending fake DMCA threats to generate fake SEO gains
#37Another day another abuse built into the core of the DMCA.
Seriously the fact that copyright violation has 10s of thousands if not millions in penalties, but fraudulent copyright claims don’t even cover legal costs is so gross.
It’s right up there with “it’s a crime for you to create derivative work, but not for a VC funded ‘AI’ company to”
Re: Fake AI law firms are sending fake DMCA threats to generate fake SEO gains
#38The root problem is that the legal system is completely inaccessible and non-existent to individuals or small companies. Even to medium companies. Only mega corps and law firms can afford to use the legal system. Even big tech often avoids it because of the expense, but if they do use it, they’re going to win, 99.9% of the time because of their war chests So, people are semi defenceless when these things come up, and…
> completely inaccessible and non-existent to individuals or small companies. Even to medium companies. Only mega corps and law firms can afford to use the legal system. For individuals you have a point, but for small and medium companies this seems like an exaggeration. I've worked for several startups. The smallest was one that I co-founded with no outside funding - we maxed out at five employees, three of whom wer…
I've always been a fan of the concept of simply billing the losing litigants the legal expenses of both sides when the case was obviously frivolous. Seems like it would shut this shit right down.
Re: Fake AI law firms are sending fake DMCA threats to generate fake SEO gains
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
I mean, the biggest firms are generally just shitshows of FOMO and so on. The second biggest, Sequoia, was all in on FTX and Sam Bankman-Fried right up until the collapse.
Sequoia put out a PR piece about SBF [1] a few months before it all blew up, and it's pretty amazing, and has made it a lot easier for me to believe that VC partners are maybe not necessarily that smart: > [Sequoia partner Michelle] Bailhe remembers it the same way: “We had a great meeting with Sam, but the last question, which I remember Alfred asking, was, ‘So, everything you’re building is great, but what is your…
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Instagram and Twitter links in footer don’t work… I’d do a chargeback with your credit card
Same. This is the twitter link https://twitter.com/GPTDAOGLOBAL 30,000 attendees for a conference is MASSIVE. Like a GDC or SEMA or something. One of the biggest in the world. Unless it's happened before, then I have a hard time believing they just spun this up out of nowhere. Edit: Would also have more sponsors. 2k to sponsor that/get a booth is WAAAAAY to cheap. Edit2: Also one of the sessions is. "... text2video,…
Capacity of venue is 950: https://www.palaceoffinearts.org/seating