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OpenAI declares AI race “over” if training on copyrighted works isn’t fair use (arstechnica.com)
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[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 16 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

Aaron Swartz was 100% opposed to all copyright laws, you remember that yah?

[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 20 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Yes, and he killed himself after the FBI was throwing the book at him for doing exactly what these AI assholes are doing without repercussion

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago

And for some reason suddenly everyone leaps back to the side of the FBI and copyright because it's a meme to hate on LLMs.

It's almost like people don't have real convictions.

You can't be Team Aaron when it's popular and then Team Copyright Maximalist when the winds change and it's time to hate on LLMs or diffusion models.

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I'm not just a copyright abolitionnist, I also abhor all intellectual property. Yes, even trademsrk

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Me too. I fundamentally oppose the idea that ideas can be owned, even by oneself.

But a weird cult has developed around copyright where people think they are on the side of the little guy by defending copyright.

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 1 points 35 minutes ago

It's classic false consciousness of the temporarily embarrassed billionaire, except for the benefit of the blood 🐭 mouse in this case

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

And he also said "child pornography is not necessarily abuse."

In the US, it is illegal to possess or distribute child pornography, apparently because doing so will encourage people to sexually abuse children.

This is absurd logic. Child pornography is not necessarily abuse. Even if it was, preventing the distribution or posession of the evidence won't make the abuse go away. We don't arrest everyone with videotapes of murders, or make it illegal for TV stations to show people being killed.

Wired has an article on how these laws destroy honest people's lives.

https://web.archive.org/web/20130116210225/http://bits.are.notabug.com/

Big yikes from me whenever I see him venerated.