• Scrubbles
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    371 year ago

    Obvious tactic, paint the other side as violent and you’ll get sympathy. Won’t someone please think of the corporation.

    Make no mistake, spez would love to see someone in a reddit tshirt beat up on the street. He’d be able to plaster that everywhere he could showing how sad his side is

    • @j4k3@lemmy.world
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      141 year ago

      A false flag is a typical right wing move. I can picture spez doing it. He should pick some kid name Aaron just to make it that much more spiteful.

    • @HQC@beehaw.org
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      51 year ago

      It’s working, too. The Forbes article which I saw posted either here or on Kbin didn’t even push back on Huffman’s claim that traffic from LLMs was the reason for the price hike, and I haven’t seen any big publication use the audio or transcripts showing a slam-dunk case of slander (or libel, whichever one applies to text) against the Apollo developer.

      • Scrubbles
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        21 year ago

        LLMs were just the catalyst for sure. They saw that as the opportunity to start milking all API users. They could have classified the users into groups and charged those groups differently, but they didn’t, and here we are