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In the US, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) facilitates tons of lawsuits against websites that are not accessible: https://www.rjo.com/publications/website-accessibility-lawsuits-continue-to-inundate-california-courts-despite-covid-19/

Typically, in website accessibility lawsuits, a visually impaired Plaintiff will allege that a company’s website is inaccessible and incompatible with screen-reading software such that the individual is denied full and equal access to the company’s website in violation of the ADA and the Unruh Act. In these cases, a Plaintiff will seek statutory damages, injunctive relief, and attorney’s fees both individually and on behalf of a class of persons similarly situated. Plaintiffs have been testing this theory of ADA liability in courts across the country for years, with New York, Florida and California being the most active.

Edit: here's another good link showing a graph of the number of ADA website accessibility lawsuits from 2016 to 2025: https://www.ecomback.com/annual-2025-ada-website-accessibility-lawsuit-report

Thanks, I fully agree that AI can be controlled in the ways you mentioned. I think most of the discussion around AI not being fully controllable is in the context of if the AI is running as it currently is.

Thanks for the additional info too. I knew nothing about the guy in the link. It was just the first link I found on a quick search about AI not being controllable. I had heard it before, but didn't remember where, or the exact details.

Good article, thanks. I haven't followed this saga closely, but between the intense political pressure and manipulation from both sides and China shutting down any ability to investigate further over there, I get the impression that we will never know the true origins of the virus.

Edit: BTW, browser reading mode bypasses the paywall on the article. It's worth a read.

From what I'm reading, only the songwriter gets paid for terrestrial radio play in the US. Crazy stuff. This is crazy, considering that there are some covers that were hits when the original song wasn't. I don't know if this has changed recently though.

Also, the amount apparently varies based on several factors, with all kinds of different bonuses at different thresholds, etc: https://www.bmi.com/creators/royalty-policy-manual#id-533115

I have heard in the past that it's not possible to fully control AI. Like literally, the people developing and running the AI cannot fully control its behavior. I did a quick search to see if I could find more info and found this link on the first page of results: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1032090

I think that we're going to continue seeing unwanted behavior from AI.

This has been an issue for Japanese adult game developers for a while now. Here's an article from the same site from 1.5 years earlier that provides a bit more context. It seems like there's either confusion or perhaps malicious misinterpretation of Japanese laws going on.

I wonder if they could somehow open a bank account in the US or somewhere else outside Japan, get the proceeds from their games sent there, and then transfer from one bank to another, or as a last resort even going in person and transporting the cash by hand.

Thanks, that makes sense. I had been starting to reach this conclusion as well (outer list being generated by the Lemmy server and link in body being generated by the client). It also appears that the server-generated list requires that the original post link to an external "article" to cross-reference. I've edited my post to say I consider it solved.