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[–] Rooskie91@discuss.online 368 points 3 days ago (23 children)

Wow so fuck college students but machines deserve free textbooks?

Fuck this society.

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 141 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Just tell your campus book store that you self-identify as AI. FREE BOOKS!

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 49 points 3 days ago (4 children)

But you aren't an oligarch of the fascist dictatorship, so you have no rights.

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[–] anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz 70 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Just download digital copies of the textbooks and say you need them as training material for your own AI dataset when the copyright holders come after you.

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[–] dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 3 days ago

machine learning = good
human learning = bad

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 19 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Countless dystopian novels have explored machine‘s human rights but the machines have already been granted more rights than us in our own dystopia. 💀

[–] nuko147@lemmy.world 19 points 3 days ago

~~machines~~ * big Tech Corps

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[–] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 204 points 3 days ago (2 children)

🙌 Communist Trump is making all textbooks free 🙌

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 51 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

You can't defeat the fascist mental illness with logic. Fascism is a fusion of corporation and state. The only rule of law is whatever the dictator(s) believe protects their regimes/corporations profits.

In this case, Americas big tech — of which Trump recently merged some with the military — has determined copyright laws should not apply to them, and Trump is voicing their opinion (he doesn't know how anything works).

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[–] Steve@startrek.website 144 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] db2@lemmy.world 65 points 2 days ago
[–] Oyml77@lemmy.today 30 points 2 days ago

You can't be expected to have a successful AI program without the release of the full text of the Epstein files (minus protection for the victims, of course).

[–] tonytins@pawb.social 120 points 3 days ago (3 children)
[–] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 55 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Good, keep convincing them that copyright is woke. And we don't want anything woke right, wink wink

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[–] ieatpwns@lemmy.world 81 points 3 days ago (1 children)

So what he’s saying is the billionaires funding ai can’t afford to do it legitimately

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[–] abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 70 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Remember kids: Copyright is only for the rich.

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[–] fraksken@infosec.pub 64 points 3 days ago (4 children)

So, hypothetically speaking, if I pirate a bunch of stuff and I get caught, I can claim I used it to train an AI model and all charges are dropped? (According to his statement, not current applicable laws)

[–] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 29 points 3 days ago

I needed to pirate that extensive game, movie, and porn library to train a gaming, movie, and porn recomendation model

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[–] Taldan@lemmy.world 57 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] jabjoe@feddit.uk 54 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Yep when Napster just linked people who shared files between them, it was the end of the world. So it's fine when it's bigtech / AI?

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[–] Etterra@discuss.online 54 points 2 days ago (2 children)

How about you release the Epstein files and then go outside and go fuck yourself Trump.

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[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 52 points 2 days ago (4 children)

So why can't I read them for free too? Only massive billion dollar companies get stuff for free?

I would like to announce that I am pioneering a new AI program. Give me access to all of the movies for free please.

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 45 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And that's why I have an AI training library of movies and TV stored up.

I'll get around to training an AI on it any day now, I'm sure.

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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 38 points 2 days ago

Hear that college students? The President just gave you permission to pirate all your textbooks.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 36 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Settle down, nerds. TACO just read from the card they gave him. He doesn't think anything about AI. Of course, he'll make the wrong decisions and cause utter chaos and strife but it's not like he has an actual opinion about AI.

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[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 34 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Trying to throw whatever that sticks so people would stop talking about your pedophelia

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 34 points 1 day ago (3 children)

"I need it for my business plan to work out" is not a great legal argument for when you're trying to override others rights.

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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 32 points 1 day ago

"You can't be expected to get a successful higher education when every article, book, or anything else that you've read or studied, you're supposed to pay for."

[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 31 points 2 days ago (5 children)

We shouldn't be calling these AI programs successful. In the slightest. They're counterfeiting human thought and work.

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[–] JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world 29 points 2 days ago

Can a human be expected to have a successful life when they have to pay for knowledge they need access to? I am not against the opinion that information should be free and freely accessible. But does this courtesy also extend to the common folk or is it exclusive to expensive machines and their owners? You wouldn’t download a United States government. da-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na

[–] StowawayFog@piefed.social 26 points 2 days ago

Won’t someone think of these POOR AI companies!

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 26 points 1 day ago

Funny that when it was about protecting profits copyright was such a cornerstone principle but when it's about protecting profits it can also be set aside.

[–] kokesh@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago

Shut up orange paedophile.

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 22 points 3 days ago

Lolz. Fuck you, fat dickhead.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 20 points 3 days ago

You can't expect to have a successful education program when every article, book, or anything else that you've read or studied, you're supposed to pay for.

[–] atk007@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (5 children)

So Pro Piracy argument ... So no more patents or copyrights

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[–] OccamsRazer@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Not sure why the knee jerk hate on this one. I like the idea of opening up academic articles and other materials for free and open use.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 64 points 2 days ago (4 children)

It's the fact that it's not free and open use to us, just to the AI trainers. At least that's what the judges seem to be saying at this point.

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[–] arararagi@ani.social 19 points 2 days ago

Because it's just for training AI, it will never trickle down to you.

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[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago
> law passes
> buy servers
> create piracy site
> call it AIbay
> have all kinds of things there under a synonymous name
> when interrogated tell them you have a proprietary technology that you won't release to competitors
[–] notso@feddit.org 19 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

In a statement given during a press conference in the Oval Office, the president's stance on the topic was clear:

"I'm a big reader, some say the biggest ever. And let me tell you - when you go into a bookstore, they have books costing like insane numbers, like 100.000 Dollars each minimum. Its an absolute disgrace. You have all these authors getting billions just for putting funny little characters on paper. The democrats... They jacked up the price so much, especially under Obama together with the crooked Clintons and sleepy Joe Biden, they were all in this room when it happened, they were all together. Its a shame. They did the same thing with eggs but I brought prices down like, immediately. Immediately. So fast everybody said "Wow" Because they never saw something like that and I will do the same for these books and newspapers. But all these writers and journalists, who are all producing propaganda for the radical left by the way, they are really terrible people - they're earning trillions... I was speaking to Mr. ChatGPT the other day and he said "They're ripping us off, Mr. President it's a totally broken market, they are killing us." And I agree, it's a disgrace. A total disgrace. That's why I'll bring prices down by not only 100 % or 200 %, but probably more like 1,000 % in the next two weeks. You'll never have seen lower prices for medication, let me tell you... And books too. So there will be big price cuts. Bigly."

/s

[–] LordCrom@lemmy.world 23 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It took me a bit to realize this wasnt an actual quote from Trump

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[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 18 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Time to ignore all the copyright and patents for my own ~~nefarious purposes~~ AI training

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[–] ToadOfHypnosis@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago

It’s amazing he can talk at all with both the dick and balls of every Nerd Reich billionaire he can find wedged into his mouth.

[–] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Then maybe AI "programs" aren't a good product. Next it will be, "we can't be expected to make a good murderbot without murdering some people"

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[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Don't spend one more dollar on educational material. If a person had to pay for every textbook and online subscription, education would be impractical.

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[–] Asswardbackaddict@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You can't be expected to - broadly understand the world and your place in it - when every article, book, or anything else that you've read or studied, you're supposed to pay for.

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[–] akilou@sh.itjust.works 16 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Yeah... So all of these years of pirating movies, tv shows, and music was for a machine learning algorithm

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