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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 96 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Hmm...

If I illegally download college course text books I could also technically pirate a whole ass education. Just won't have a degree.

Unless... Can I pirate that, too? πŸ€”

[–] hsr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 88 points 2 months ago

Educating computers πŸ˜‡

Educating people 😑

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago

If you train a local LLM and let that LLM write your thesis for you, it's fine.

[–] chocrates@piefed.world 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Having the material doesn't mean you know it unfortunately. You could probably give yourself a PhD level of education yourself with resources publicly available, but you would need to be able to learn on your own, and putting together the curriculum would be a problem since you are starting as a novice at whatever subject it is.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

however, the curriculum is also often publicly available

[–] chocrates@piefed.world 7 points 2 months ago

Totally, when I want to learn a new subject in my field I will go find a uni course with a public curriculum and use that to help my studies. It also lets you find books that have ostensibly accurate information

[–] DupaCycki@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

All you need to do is print it, forge the signatures and input it in the national registry. Should be doable.

[–] seraphine@lemmy.blahaj.zone 34 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Well, someone had to say it, so here I go:

inhales

If piracy isnt owning, then buying isn't stealing?

wait i messed it up

[–] chiruyuki@ani.social 10 points 2 months ago

A+ for effort lol

[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 22 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Oh, so I should get a positronic brain?

[–] maccentric@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My dyslexia turned that into post ironic brain and that works too

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

I like post-ironic. That's when satire doesn't work any more because real life is worse.

[–] Karcinogen@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Step 1: positronic brain

Step 2: make a fuck-ton of clocks

Step 3: profit

[–] Johanno@feddit.org 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

True but it is only legal if you are a multi billion dollar company that could have paid for it, but didn't choose so.

If you can't afford it you should rot in Guantanamo for ever!

[–] theparadox@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's also ok if you are using it in an effort to make workers obsolete and upend the entire economy.

Yeah. Thats good. All law violations excused to do that. Also you get all the water if you're trying.

[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Courts will say "no, that's not what we meant by that" and will slap you silly.

AI companies aren't on the side of copyright reform or abolition, they just want an exception for themselves so they can keep doing whatever they're doing now. (And they also want more IP laws to cover the current grey areas, so they can stop pretending to give a damn about open models)

[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The post isn’t a sound legal argument, but it is an ethical one.

[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 months ago

Yeah, well, Law and Ethics are two separate things which - very rarely these days - seem to cross each other. This is known.

[–] commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 months ago

education is a fair use exception, too

[–] wabafee@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

When laws do not work for most of the people is it worth following in the first place?

[–] suyuemulator@leminal.space 2 points 2 months ago

The Suyu Emulator is an open-source, Nintendo Switch emulator built to run on Windows, Android, iOS and Linux devices. https://suyuemulators.net/

[–] mhague@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

They spent a lot of money and political capital to train their AI just for it to get leaked back to the masses.

If only every AI company scraping the internet would have their model be given back to the people. It's the minimum they could do.