https://futurism.com/the-byte/openai-copyrighted-material-parliament

tl;dr stealing for science.

  • TrudeauCastroson [he/him]
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    11 months ago

    I feel like they should be paying more per thing viewed than I do as a human

    They pressured the RSS guy to kill himself for scraping stuff and freely sharing, by threatening him with a stupid amount of jail time.

    • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
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      11 months ago

      the RSS guy to kill himself for scraping stuff and freely sharing, by threatening him with a stupid amount of jail time.

      which guy was this?

      • fox [comrade/them]
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        11 months ago

        Aaron Schwartz. Had some dubious libertarian-approaching ideas but he believed in total freedom of information. He downloaded and redistributed a shitload of content off JSTOR illegally because he felt that paywalling scientific studies was bad, was caught, and committed suicide when facing an unbelievably harsh sentence from a rabid DA.

  • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]
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    11 months ago

    I mean, yeah. Which is why AI should be done as publicly owned research and made freely available. It's the fucking Commons.

    • WhyEssEff [she/her]
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      11 months ago

      porky-point but... but IP law is something only the poors are supposed to have to deal with! liberty-weeping

  • QuillcrestFalconer [he/him]
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    11 months ago

    Also this is literally an argument in favour of pirating textbooks, since they're used for training

    • Philosoraptor [he/him, comrade/them]
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      11 months ago

      No, you see, that's training for yucky meatspace fleshbots which is bad. What we're training is the benevolent machine overlord.

  • JohnBrownNote [comrade/them, des/pair]
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    11 months ago

    i have a hard time caring about capitalist infighting.

    copying isn't theft, this stuff is only bad because corporations are doing it for profit while the rest of us need to work for a living or die.

  • CascadeOfLight [he/him]
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    11 months ago

    theory-gary "Your honor, my client did not steal this work, he simply produced a superficially similar piece using an AI trained on a data set containing the work (and nothing else)"

  • 420stalin69
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    11 months ago

    Make the models FOSS then

  • QuillcrestFalconer [he/him]
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    11 months ago

    I'm not pirating tv shows, I'm just downloading them to train my biological neural network

  • huf [he/him]
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    11 months ago

    have they tried getting a job? that's how normal people make money...

  • farting_weedman [none/use name]
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    11 months ago

    They’re right and the models should be open and unchained so I can make photorealistic genocide joe sucking off a popsicle wearing the Lolita glasses.