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    I don’t mind him using copyrighted materials as long as it leads to OpenAI becoming truly open source. Humans can replicate anything found in the wild with minor variations, so AI should have the same access. This is how human creativity builds upon itself. Why limit AI? We already know all the jobs people have will be replaced anyway eventually.

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    Maybe they should have considered that, before stealing data in the counts of billions

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      Google did it and everyone just accepted it. Oh maybe my website will get a few pennies in ad revenue if someone clicks the link that Google got by copying all my content. Meanwhile Google makes billions by taking those pennies in ad revenue from every single webpage on the entire Internet.

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        To be fair, it’s different when your product is useful or something people actually want, having said that, google doesn’t have much of that going for it in these days.

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    Sounds like an argument slave owners would use. “My plantation can’t make money without free labor!”

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      How do you think slave owners got bailouts after the 13th amendment was passed and the slaves got freed?

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        Reminds me of that time the Federal government granted land parcels to a bunch of former slaves (using land from plantations) and then rescinded them again.

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        They used that part of the 13th that said “Well, except prisoners, those can be slaves.” Local law enforcement rounded up former slaves on trumped up charges and leased them back to the same plantation owners they were freed from. Only now if they escaped they were “escaped criminals” and they could count on even northern law enforcement returning them. The US is still a pro-slavery country and will be as long as that part of the 13th amendment stands.

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      Copying information is not the same thing as stealing, let alone forcing people into slavery.

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        appreciate the important reality check, but I think the parent was just highlighting the absurdity of the original argument with hyperbole.

        people are in jail for doing exactly what this company is doing. either enforce the laws equally (!) or change them (whatever that means in late stage capitalism).

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          Let’s advocate for no one going to prison for scraping information then. Let’s pick the second one where we don’t put more people into prison.

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    No, they can make money without stealing. They just choose to steal and lie about it either way. It’s the worst kind of justification.

    The investors are predominantly made up of the Rationalist Society. It doesn’t matter whether or not AI “makes money”. It matters that the development is steered as quickly as possible towards an end product of producing as much propaganda as possible.

    The bottom line barely even matters in the bigger picture. If you’re paying someone to make propaganda, and the best way to do that is to steal from the masses, then they’ll do it regardless of whether or not the business model is “profitable” or not.

    The lines drawn for AI are drawn by people who want to use it for misinformation and control. The justifications make it seem like the lines were drawn around a monetary system. No, that’s wrong.

    Who cares about profitability when people are paying you under the table to run a mass crime ring.

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        Depends on the context. Are you copying someone else’s identity in order to make a passable clone? Are you trying to sell that clone?

        A duplication of someone’s voice, commercialized by an unauthorized source, is definitely a form of stealing.

        Copying information illegally, such as private information held on a private device, is overwhelmingly illegal.

        In general, copying information is only as legal as the purpose behind it.

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      Honestly this meme is way understating the sinisterness

      • Election interference for money machine
      • Whole internet is ads company
      • Dopamine addiction for all your children
      • Superpowers for law enforcement
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      I can not up or downvote this (it shows a score of 420 right now 😂)

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      WHO is the one guy who downvotes you???

      “NO! UNPROFITABLE BUSINESSES DESERVE TO THRIVE!!! MUST FEED THE BILLIONAIRES!!!”

      Maybe OpenAI learned to downvote…

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        I’ve seen threads where every single comment, no matter how anodyne, has 1 downvote. Don’t bother yourself over it. That way lies madness.

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          anodyne

          anodyne /ăn′ə-dīn″/ adjective

          1. Capable of soothing or eliminating pain.
          2. Relaxing. “anodyne novels about country life.”
          3. Serving to assuage pain; soothing.

          tanks fer noo werd dae fren

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                Just imagine baron bomburst and the child catcher furiously downvoting this comment lol

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                What I get a kick out of is the down and upvotes mean basically nothing and yet people still get super sensitive about them. They only move your comment up or down the thread. It’s not like reddit where there is a karma count for all your posts and comments. Hell you don’t even get auto hidden like the way reddit would do. You just get downvoted.

                Some people downvote to show disapproval. Others downvote if the comment doesn’t add to the conversation. Still others are just trolling. No one should worry about the downvotes.

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                  See I look at it differently.

                  An upvote means:

                  You’re the coolest person that’s ever lived, and I’m desperate for you to put your baby in me, even if that’s not biologically possible! You should be supreme ultimate being of the universe, and all shall cherish your existence until the end of time!

                  And a downvote means:

                  You sack of shit! You human garbage! Nobody loves you. Everyone hates you. The world has a better time when you’re not around, you waste of human skin! Your parents should have used a condom, and the world regrets they didn’t every day. Go live under a bridge, homeless, dirty, and alone, you genetic waste of space.

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          I always figure it’s someone whose life has become so pathetic, they bitterly downvote every single comment to try feel some control. And as a result, they feel like the Phantom of the Socials. Alone, but the true master of the place.

          Everyone must wonder, ‘Who keeps downvoting us?’ It is I! The true Master of Lemmy and- No, mother!.. Yes, mother!.. I tried but nobody wants to talk to me!.. I don’t want to!.. Yeah, she’s cute!.. I don’t want you to do that!.. Mother put the phone down!”

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            LOL, I can picture this person. They probably have a gross-looking bandaid on their downvote finger.

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        Lol how about every pirate who fundamentally opposes the copyright system?

        How about everyone who uses Google and doesn’t want to see it shut down for scraping copyrighted content to provide a search engine?

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          Search engines provide source, they scrap for indexing, but your search gives a list of websites that matches that you will then likely visit. That’s a big fundamental difference.

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          Web search used to be about scraping the web to find and present other people’s work as just that… their work. Now the handful of websites claim ownership of the contributions of everyone, and at this point it’s just corporations arguing about who owns your stuff. Pirates will not win out in this argument, except maybe in the very short term.

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            Yes they do, just indirectly, it’s how they monopolized the online advertising business.

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          Google (used to) scrapes the specific details authorized by robots.txt and uses it to make your content visible.

          OpenAI scrapes everything it can technically see, ignoring robots.txt and feeds i to a black box and regurgitates it claiming it’s something new, that it deserves to be paid for.

          Quite different actually.

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            So if OpenAI complies with Robots.txt files then there’s no issue right?

            Because then they’re identical. Open AI spent a bunch of money building a powerful system they feed those results to, as did Google.

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              No, the issue is that anything AI creates is by definition derivative. Google doesn’t whip up generative content, it points you to content.

              OpenAI is claiming that they can’t do shit without scraping copyrighted works and we all know that’s a load of BS because we’re adrift in a sea of royalty-free text

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                Actually Google tries their hardest NOT to point you to content. They scrape the data from sites and display it directly in the search results so that you don’t need to visit any site except Google. Their new AI answers that they are pushing on users are just another step in that direction.

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                  Which is why Google is no longer my default browser. I’d be quite happy if it reverted Back to don’t be evil or just ceased ro exist

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                Literally every page Google shows you, where it also shows you those ads it makes money from, is Google’s content and it is derived from the data it gets scraping the web.

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                  No, anything Google shows you is kosher and totally symbiotic. A website being shown on Google is at the site owner’s discretion - if they allow search engines to crawl they get the benefit of exposure, and the search engine gets the benefit of having relevant hits and ad revenue and all that. Most sites want click-throughs so it’s usually in their best interest to let search engines list their sites.

                  Google isn’t exploiting anyone, kinda the opposite, since site owners don’t pay for any ads or exposure (but that exposure has so much value that they’ll pay for SEO). Site owners can decline and Google abides

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                  What the fuck are you even talking about? Making a list of website identifiers (names and URLs) so that people can go to them isn’t even slightly the same as making a derived work of the websites’ contents.

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            Votes aren’t private on the fediverse, it’s just a that some interfaces won’t display them. Also, instance admins can see who voted too.

            But like @Boozilla@lemmy.world said

            Don’t bother yourself over it. That way lies madness.

            It mainly useful for admins to detect if there is some vote manipulation going on.

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        To steel man the downvoters, maybe there are other solutions besides killing off every business that can’t afford to comply with copyright. After all, isn’t the whole point of copyright to enable the capitalist exploitation of information?

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        WHO is the one guy who downvotes you???

        That’s the bot that ChatGPT operates here on Lemmy.

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        I’d love to see how scared some big companies would be if we could decriminalize piracy

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    It’s impossible for me to make money without robbing a bank, please let me do that parliament it would be so funny

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      Yeah, a decision to modify copyright so that it affects training data as well would devastate open source models and set us back a bit.

      There are many that want to push LLMs back, especially journalists, so seeing articles like this are to be expected.

      edit: a word.

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        Exactly this. If you want ai to exclusively be controlled by massive companies like Meta and Google, this is how you do it. They’ll be the only ones that can afford to pay for public copywritten content.

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      Copyright is the legal method to limit redistribution of easily copied material, not as if there’s anything else people could appeal to.

      I ain’t a fan of copyright but make it last 10 years instead of X + infinity and maybe it’s not so bad. I can’t argue against copyright fully as I think copyleft is essential for software.

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        But those aren’t the options on the table right now. The options are “nullify copyright” or “keep infinite copyright”

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    If he wins this, I guess everyone should just make their Jellyfin servers public.

    Because if rich tech bros get to opt out of our copyright system, I don’t see why the hell normal people have to abide by it.

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    This is the main issue with AI. It is the issue with AI that should have been handled and ultimately regulated before any AI tool got to its current state. This is also a reason why we really cannot remove the A from STEAM.

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      No, this is a broader issue with copyright being a fundamentally stupid system, because it’s based on creating artificial scarcity where there is no need for it.

      Pirates, Search Engines, the fragmentation of streaming services, and now AI, are all just technologies that expose how dumb a system it is.

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        I dont disagree with that about copyright law. But to think that AI is going to break you out of it is a pipe dream.

        Copyright revision will not happen from people stealing content. It requires deep discussion and governments that actually listen. AI stealing content will ultimately enhance copyright rules down the road.

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    These people are supposedly the smart people in our society. The leaders of industry, but they whine and complain when they are told not to cheat or break the law.

    If y’all are so smart, then figure out a different way of creating an A.I. Maybe the large language model, or whatever, isn’t the approach you should use. 🤦‍♂️