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OpenAI declares AI race “over” if training on copyrighted works isn’t fair use (arstechnica.com)
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[–] T156@lemmy.world 58 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

There's also an argument that if the business was that reliant on free things to start with, then it shouldn't be a business.

No-one would bat their eyes if the CEO of a real estate company was sobbing that it's the end of the rental market, because the company is no longer allowed to get houses for free.

[–] Glent@lemmy.ca 14 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Businesses relying on free things. Logging, mining, ranching, and oil come to mind. Extracting free resources of the land belonging to the public, destroying those public lands and selling those resources back to the public at an exorbitant markup.

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 9 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

You misspelled capitalism.

[–] TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub 8 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Unregulated capitalism. That’s why people in dominant market positions want less regulation.

[–] slumberlust@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Entrenched companies often want more regulation to prevent startup competition. Pulling the ladder up behind them.

[–] finder585@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

Extracting free resources of the land

Not to be contrarian, but there is a cost to extract those "free" resources; like labor, equipment, transportation, lobbying (AKA: bribes for the non-Americans), processing raw material into something useful, research and development, et cetera.

[–] mac@lemm.ee 1 points 31 minutes ago

Was about to post the same thing

[–] msage@programming.dev 7 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

The entire internet is built on free things.

Just saying.

[–] SeekPie@lemm.ee 8 points 6 hours ago

Doesn't mean that businesses should allowed to be.