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    I’m not pirating movies, I’m training my brain to imagine films and come up with new ones.

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      Put a YOLO object detection training script on your PC. Boom! All my NAS is for training AI.

      Like, I know that’s not how laws work. Laws work to protect rich corporations and profits. But that’s the logic we got here.

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          Yeah. Unfortunately laws are written to protect companies and ensure those same companies can use the same law to punish individuals

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            This isn’t just seen in the laws. This kind of thing is happening within every perspective imaginable. One example is language, as certain words or quotes are purposly stripped off their original meaning to primarily deceive and fearmonger the people.

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          The same company went to court claiming that “GPT” (Generative Pre-trained Transformer, the generic term for the type of LLM most AI chatbots are) is a trademark that no one else can use, because their platform has it in the name.

          That’s like if Burger King were to say “burger” is their company’s trademark, so no one else is allowed to call their meat patty sandwiches “burgers.”

          Meanwhile, tech companies (including OpenAI) are pirating data to use to train their models, with the explicit intention of generating profit from them, and pretending they have an inalienable right to do so.

          They’re ingesting archives full of stolen IP, and raising a fuss about three letters…

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    I don’t get how they’re allowed to do this in the first place.

    People are using LLM’s instead of visiting websites, reading books, or watching videos. And lots of people are PAYING AI companies for this.

    It’s such a clear case of copyright infringement, and it’s leading to countless losses for creators.

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      I think part of the issue is it’s relatively new, new things don’t have laws written about them and haven’t been tried in court. So, until one of the copyright holders want to push the issue it’s sort of like “well, maybe it’s illegal, maybe it’s not.”

      And of course the copyright holders just make deals so that they get paid and they move on with life (Disney).

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      No. It is not clear. I read books and train myself from them, and then teach others for money. That’s legal… Obviously computers are not humans, but the parallel is there. So it’s not clear what the law is or ought to be.

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          This seems like the key point. The teacher who buys a text book to share it’s contents with others is the intended use of the content. There’s clearly no theft there. If the creators of all this content had genuinely intended it to be used this way then there would be no problem. But the vast majority of artists/authors/creators seem to be against the use of their work like this (perhaps given appropriate compensation they could have been brought on side?)

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            This logic appeals to me but I’m curious how it could work legally as well as potential side effects. It seems likely that legal arguments would ensue over intended use of content, and it doesn’t seem like it should be illegal to use some created work in a new or unintended manner.

            I think the overall goals are to encourage creative and academic work (which requires funding creators), discourage centralization of knowledge (prevent leverage over and manipulation of populace), encourage distrust of llm output without source references in output, and discourage overuse of generative AI. I’m sure there are more, but that’s what comes to mind.

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    So what they doing is basically piracy.

    And not just them, any AI in that so called “race” is allegedly doing it.

    So why do we get punished if we download something from the Internet?

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    I hope that’s the face he makes when his head falls in a wicker basket one of these days.

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    I bet this fucker will beg for a ruling that his business model is illegal so that he has something to blame other than his own incompetent bullshit.

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      I bet he’s going to use the absolutely mind boggingly mentally challenged remarks he’s previously uttered as a legal defense for “people shouldn’t have given me all that money, that’s all on them”.

      Things like (paraphrasing, because I cannot be bothered to look up the clips of this imbecile): “We are out of electrons” as a response to “why not manufacture more hardware chips”. Or the hilarious “Once we have a working AGI, we’re going to ask it how to make a return on all these absurd investments”, to a group of investors…

      I feel like all the rich and powerful are the dumbest fuckers in this planet, who just grifted their way.

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    Same energy as a person I know who was complaining that their business can’t afford to expand if they have to offer healthcare plans to their employees.

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    The entire spirit of Neoliberal Capitalism is that Regulations and Enforcement of Regulations are bad for business and shouldn’t be done.

    This guys’ take is pretty much just a continuation of the takes of lots of publicly celebrated CEOs of the last 4 decades.

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    Car theft laws merely protect the established players in the industry. If it was legal everybody and their uncle would be doing it, diluting the margins.

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    Lol he’ll juet have to sit down and write his own booka for them to train off of, paint his own pictures for them to imitate, sing his owm songs for them to clavicate in a whirring tempest of metal flesh cords.

    He’ll have to work for once in his life.