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Sony, Warner sue Anthropic, alleging "blatant theft" of intellectual property (www.axios.com)
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[–] 9 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

And now watch everyone cheer for Sony and Warner to succeed in their lawsuits to extend the grip of copyright. What a timeline.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 hour ago (1 child)

    Nah, people are not THAT stupid.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 hour ago (1 child)

    A while back I saw a thread in a piracy community that was cheering some other lawsuit against an AI company for similar reasons, so I wouldn't bet. The anti-AI sentiment is quite strong in these parts.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

    They’re not going to walk back copyright law so I’ll take these rapacious AI companies being held a little closer to the same standard that we are.

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  • [–] 1 point 13 minutes ago (1 child)

    They’re not going to walk back copyright law

    Why not? These laws exist the make the rich more money; if the interests of the rich people trying to make money change it's very possible for the law to change to match that.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 minutes ago

    Because there’s more money to be made in keeping it than walking it back. I could see them making some kind of shitty carve out for the AI companies that they have to pay into I guess but nothing that would benefit the average person.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 hour ago (1 child)

    This isn't a question of "walking it back", though. There was never anything in copyright law that prohibited analyzing a copyrighted work before. This is an attempt to extend it.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 hour ago (1 child)

    Meta literally torrented 82TB of pirated material off anna’s archive and similar sources they’re not just “analyzing” things they paid for. Not to mention the various terms of use stating that content can’t be used to train off of that they violate as they scrape the whole web.

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  • [–] -3 points 1 hour ago (1 child)

    And so, exactly as I predicted, we've got commenters coming out to defend the poor innocent copyright cartels against those awful people pirating their stuff. Violating sacred EULAs, even, what monsters.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 hour ago (1 child)

    If I could get rid of both of them I would but I can’t so I don’t think it’s unreasonable have them go after the companies burning the planet to make the worst slop imaginable instead of people writing switch emulators or whatever. “Violating those sacred EULAs” causes the very site I’m posting this from to fight a constant game of cat and mouse with the bots trying to scrape it.

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  • [–] 1 point 31 seconds ago

    That's not how this works though, hoping the law to just punishes people you don't like without regard for what they are being punished for is madness.

    If Anthropic lose this they'll shrug pay a fee to licence things out of the untold billions they have available to them from credulous investors, and everyone else will have lost the right to do whatever they want with a copyrighted work without the publisher's permission. That people who consider themselves progressive think that's a win boggles my mind.

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