This is a pure scam on tax payer money. But what else would be expected?
> An open AI model trained in Rio with public funding over the last year by @Prefeitura_Rio surpassing all other models.
You'll have to let me know when that finally happens, because that ain't now.
Your second one - that's how everything public is paid for. Private individuals pay tax, either through their corporations paying corporation tax or the tax bill on top of their wage bills, which a) drives up prices of the goods and services they offer, or depresses wages, and b) funds all the public sector employees and orgs that don't pay tax (orgs) or don't pay net tax (employees).
The point of my first sentence is; private individuals and small businesses generally pay their fair share. Larger corporations emphatically do not.
Larger corporations pay loads of tax. Shed loads. They pay all the employee and income tax, as well as corporation tax and their sales generate VAT. Small businesses are the ones most likely to have softer tax burdens due to progressive taxation.
A child caught doing something bad will cry "but my friends also did it!", is that the level of reasoning hackers want to be at?
They can both be bad.
I might be missing something, but I don’t see anyone defending the the scams.