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[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 hours ago

Then let it be over then.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 hours ago

But if you stop me from criming, how will I get better at crime!?!

[–] [email protected] 32 points 14 hours ago

Good. I hope this is what happens.

  1. LLM algorithms can be maintained and sold to corpos to scrape their own data so they can use them for in house tools, or re-sell them to their own clients.
  2. Open Source LLMs can be made available for end users to do the same with their own data, or scrape whats available in the public domain for whatever they want so long as they don't re-sell
  3. Altman can go fuck himself
[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago

To be fair copyright is a disease. But then so is billionaires, capitalism, business, etc.

I mean, if there's a war, and you shoot somebody, does that make you bad?

Yes and no.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 14 hours ago

No amigo, it's not fair if you're profiting from it in the long run.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

I think the answer is there just do what deepseek did.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 15 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 12 points 13 hours ago

These fuckers are the first one to send tons of lawyers whenever you republish or use any IP of them. Fuck these idiots.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

This is basically a veiled admission that OpenAI are falling behind in the very arms race they started. Good, fuck Altman. We need less ultra-corpo tech bro bullshit in prevailing technology.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

I dont wanna be mean but I always thought this guy had a weird face

[–] [email protected] 19 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

I have conflicting feelings about this whole thing. If you are selling the result of training like OpenAI does (and every other company), then I feel like it’s absolutely and clearly not fair use. It’s just theft with extra steps.

On the other hand, what about open source projects and individuals who aren’t selling or competing with the owners of the training material? I feel like that would be fair use.

What keeps me up at night is if training is never fair use, then the natural result is that AI becomes monopolized by big companies with deep pockets who can pay for an infinite amount of random content licensing, and then we are all forever at their mercy for this entire branch of technology.

The practical, socioeconomic, and ethical considerations are really complex, but all I ever see discussed are these hard-line binary stances that would only have awful corporate-empowering consequences, either because they can steal content freely or because they are the only ones that will have the resources to control the technology.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

Japan already passed a law that explicitly allows training on copyrighted material. And many other countries just wouldn’t care. So if it becomes a real problem the companies will just move.

I think they need to figure out a middle ground where we can extract value from the for profit AI companies but not actually restrict the competition.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Good. If I ever published anything, I would absolutely not want it to be pirated by AI so some asshole can plagiarize it later down the line and not even cite their sources.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Maybe as a consumer product but governments will still want it

[–] [email protected] 11 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Oh no, not the plagiarizing machine! How are rich hacks going to feign talent now? Pay an artist for it?! Crazy!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

Time to sail the high seas.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago

Do you promise?!?!

[–] [email protected] 38 points 23 hours ago

Fuck these psychos. They should pay the copyright they stole with the billions they already made. Governments should protect people, MDF

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 day ago

TLDR: "we should be able to steal other people's work, or we'll go crying to daddy Trump. But DeepSeek shouldn't be able to steal from the stuff we stole, because China and open source"

[–] [email protected] 30 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

At the end of the day the fact that openai lost their collective shit when a Chinese company used their data and model to make their own more efficient model is all the proof I need they don't care about being fair or equitable when they get mad at people doing the exact thing they did and would aggressively oppose others using their own work to advance their own.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 23 hours ago

Sounds fair, shut it down.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

If giant megacorporations can benefit by ignoring copyright, us mortals should be able to as well.

Until then, you have the public domain to train on. If you don't want AI to talk like the 1920s, you shouldn't have extended copyright and robbed society of a robust public domain.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Why training openai with literally millions of copyrighted works is fair use, but me downloading an episode of a series not available in any platform means years of prison?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago

Have you thought about incorporating yourself into a company? Apparently that solves all legal problems.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 23 hours ago

Fuck OpenAI for stealing the hard work of millions of people

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

Good. Fuck AI

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago

Open can suck some dick.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

Vote pirate party.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 day ago

If I had to pay tuition for education (buying text books, pay for classes and stuff), then you have to pay me to train your stupid AI using my materials.

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