They aren’t MAGA as much as they are capitalist, and MAGA is in power right now

Maybe in the long run, but corporate profits are sky high at present. Best believe there’s more juice they’re gonna squeeze from this rind.

Criti-hype

Valve represents the acme of capitalism, with likely the highest profit per employee of any corporation that has ever existed, and you’re out here sucking them off?

STOP👏DEFENDING👏MONOPLIES

CIA bot out here defending capitalist exploitation as reasonable lmao

This is a very bad comparison. Valve has by some estimates the highest profit per employee of any corporation in the world. Reasonable markups in a competitive market are a far cry from the ludicrous extraction tax Valve (and Apple, and Google) impose as monopolist app store operators.

I agree, but you can’t copyright what an LLM produces anyway

the output of an LLM can’t be copyrighted, so the claim is absurd on the face of it

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Maybe some of these ones?

Don’t post reputation-washing corporate PR. Billionaires aren’t heroes when then make undemocratic donations to charity that never should have belonged to them, and LLM companies don’t get credit for trying to stem the tide of bad publicity around data centers.

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Haha fuck science, amirite?

It’s not apples to oranges, because the network effects (and coercive pressures they create) are in fact incredibly similar: sellers have to go where most customers are, and most PC gamers begin and end their search for games on Steam, just like most online shoppers begin and end their searches on Amazon.

Nobody thinks that it’s impossible, which is incredibly rare, but rather that it’s very costly not to comply, which is the source of every monopolist’s power. Could Pepsi refuse to sell at Walmart to avoid the huge wholesale discounts they demand over smaller stores? Sure, but it would shoot themselves in the foot, and that’s the source of Walmart’s anticompetitive power, which coerces Pepsi (and lots of other suppliers) and hurts lots of smaller businesses who don’t get the same discount.

Anecdotes are not data!

And Hitler was a vegetarian, but that tells us literally nothing about whether we should abuse animals in factory farms

Because partisanship. They are on Team Gaben, and can only understand criticism of valve as expressing support for Team Epic. It’s exactly the same as when libs construe any and all criticism of Democrats as support for Trump.