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moriquende@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoI’m not sure you have understood that people don’t want to profit from their data, they want to avoid corporations stealing their private texts and pictures to train models they’ll profit from.
General_Effort@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Is this some weak attempt at gaslighting? If you want to make a career out of this, you really need to up your game. I mean, can you imagine some think tank going: Landlords don’t want to profit from those apartments, they just want to avoid people squatting in them for free.
moriquende@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Your problem is that the landlord analogy just doesn’t suit this situation.
General_Effort@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Rent seeking is long-established economic jargon. It doesn’t necessarily imply a landlord analogy. A landlord may not be extracting an economic rent within that definition.
The point is rent-seeking, not an analogy to landlords.
moriquende@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Precisely, and rent-seeking is what’s not happening here, as nobody is looking to profit. People are only looking to keep their private information private.