#forexposure — Public Fediverse posts

Let's not mince words.

It is the creator saying outright that they were trying to solve their problem of being unable to get people to work #ForExposure at a mass scale.

This is why I'm describing what they are doing with language as a "shell game."

#Haidra _cannot_ be ethically neutral middleware when the author's stated purpose in building and running the system is to make it so that people can avoid needing to pay artists for their work.

There are other problems, but start there.

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Let's not mince words.

It is the creator saying outright that they were trying to solve their problem of being unable to get people to work #ForExposure at a mass scale.

This is why I'm describing what they are doing with language as a "shell game."

#Haidra _cannot_ be ethically neutral middleware when the author's stated purpose in building and running the system is to make it so that people can avoid needing to pay artists for their work.

There are other problems, but start there.

6/

Let's not mince words.

It is the creator saying outright that they were trying to solve their problem of being unable to get people to work #ForExposure at a mass scale.

This is why I'm describing what they are doing with language as a "shell game."

#Haidra _cannot_ be ethically neutral middleware when the author's stated purpose in building and running the system is to make it so that people can avoid needing to pay artists for their work.

There are other problems, but start there.

6/

Let's not mince words.

It is the creator saying outright that they were trying to solve their problem of being unable to get people to work #ForExposure at a mass scale.

This is why I'm describing what they are doing with language as a "shell game."

#Haidra _cannot_ be ethically neutral middleware when the author's stated purpose in building and running the system is to make it so that people can avoid needing to pay artists for their work.

There are other problems, but start there.

6/

Let's not mince words.

It is the creator saying outright that they were trying to solve their problem of being unable to get people to work #ForExposure at a mass scale.

This is why I'm describing what they are doing with language as a "shell game."

#Haidra _cannot_ be ethically neutral middleware when the author's stated purpose in building and running the system is to make it so that people can avoid needing to pay artists for their work.

There are other problems, but start there.

6/