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I don’t think they foresaw this level of corporate exploitation when they chose a permissive license. But that’s our own stupidity. Always expect the worst from crony capitalists.

You’re attributed as long as the downstream intermediaries and users/developers provide some traceable reference to your original work. Even your package’s name in their dependency manifest can serve that purpose. Anyone who wants to know the original source has a way to find trace it back to you. Some projects like SPDX can largely automate it too. It can spit out the entire dependency tree, their authors and even licence compatibility information from the data.

Whenever I use some information that requires attribution, like discussions on stackoverflow, I leave the reference links in the comments in my source code. But I rarely use their code. I learn their approach. So I’m technically not required to attribute. But that’s still the honorable thing to do.

Needles to say, AI stays true to the nature of those who peddle it. They don’t like attribution and they completely strip it.

I deeply hate YouTube, and I hate that I have to depend on them for some content. Their enormous resources and a huge cache of useful videos make them a monopoly. And they leverage that advantage in truly aggressive and extortionist ways, after killing off all potential competition by initially offering their services for free.

Every platform has to have some form of moderation to protect their users from harm including bullying, nudity and violence. But YouTube’s censorship algorithms are biased political bullies themselves. They kill heated, but necessary discussions and even entire topics. It’s also very biased in some social topics that they essentially define the narrative and culture in seriously damaging ways.

Examples include the topics of rapes and porn. Sure, they’re distressing or disturbing topics for many. But how do you solve them if the discussion around them is completely shutdown? How do you avoid those words in videos raising awareness, crime videos, etc? And how ridiculous is it that grapes 🍇and corn 🌽 should take the fall for Google’s narcissistic stubbornness? The future generations are going to be baffled by this idiocy that they inflicted on us!

At this point they’re too big to fail and they consider it beneath them to address the grievances of the creators or the audience. No company should have so much power over the society. Google should have been splintered into thousands of little pieces and sprinkled all over the planet a long time ago.

It’s high time that we leave YouTube behind and migrate elsewhere, wherever that be. Continuing to depend on them will be willful and irresponsible submission of our society to the abuses of a very toxic, greedy and unscrupulous conglomerate.