There's an apocryphal story where Mick Fleetwood (of Fleetwood Mac) met Murray Walker who, not knowing who he was talking to, commented how The Chain gave him goosebumps and Mick thanked him. Surprised, Murray asked him why he thanked him and Mick said "I'm Mick Fleetwood".
Organisers of protests across the country have called for a boycott of the duo, with activist group Stop War On Palestine in particular alleging:
1. That they have publicly supported “every major assault on Gaza in recent years - including Israel’s current genocidal war.”
2. The cover of their 2023 single, ‘Dance Forever’, "featured an Israeli flag blanketing all of historic Palestine.”
3. One half of the duo, Amit Duvdevani’s claims that supporters of Palestine are “brainwashed”.
4. A regular collaborator Skazi’s comments that his fans should “dance on the ruins of Gaza”.
5. Continued donations by the duo to the Tel Aviv Foundation, which has ties to the IDF, along with Tribe of Nova, whose co-founder launched an intelligence platform that supplies intelligence to the Israeli military.
Links to sources for those points are in the article.
i mean, if you don't think this development is good news, what sort of news about openai would you think is?
To me, it'd be good news if they closed up shop completely. Any situation where they're still doing what they're doing doesn't sound good to me.
That said, I understand why you think this is good news, and it sounds like we both want the same thing to happen. We're just coming at this from different perspectives.
That's a different Josie Scott.