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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 day ago (2 children)

"How are we supposed to win the race if we can't cheat?!"

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (12 children)

To be fair, they’re not wrong. We need to find a legal comprise that satisfies everyone

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What's wrong with the sentiment expressed in the headline? AI training is not and should not be considered fair use. Also, copyright laws are broken in the west, more so in the east.

We need a global reform of copyright. Where copyrights can (and must) be shared among all creators credited on a work. The copyright must be held by actual people, not corporations (or any other collective entity), and the copyright ends after 30 years or when the all rights holders die, whichever happens first. That copyright should start at the date of initial publication. The copyright should be nontransferable but it should be able to be licensed to any other entity only with a majority consent of all rights holders. At the expiration of the copyright the work in question should immediately enter the public domain.

And fair use should be treated similarly to how it is in the west, where it's decided on a case-by-case basis, but context and profit motive matter.

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[–] [email protected] 152 points 1 day ago (22 children)

But I can't pirate copyrighted materials to "train" my own real intelligence.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Musk has an AI project. Techbros have deliberately been sucking up to Trump. I’m pretty sure AI training will be declared fair use and copyright laws will remain the same for everybody else.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Good, end this AI bullshit, it has little upsides and a metric fuckton of downsides for the common man

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Sounds good, fuck em

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 day ago (3 children)

The only way this would be ok is if openai was actually open. make the entire damn thing free and open source, and most of the complaints will go away.

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[–] [email protected] 105 points 1 day ago (2 children)

"We can't succeed without breaking the law. We can't succeed without operating unethically."

I'm so sick of this bullshit. They pretend to love a free market until it's not in their favor and then they ask us to bend over backwards for them.

Too many people think they're superior. Which is ironic, because they're also the ones asking for handouts and rule bending. If you were superior, you wouldn't need all the unethical things that you're asking for.

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

Okay.

It was fun while it lasted.

For someone.

I presume.

[–] [email protected] 118 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

Fine by me. Can it be over today?

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[–] [email protected] 105 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Training that AI is absolutely fair use.

Selling that AI service that was trained on copyrighted material is absolutely not fair use.

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[–] [email protected] 444 points 2 days ago (41 children)

That's a good litmus test. If asking/paying artists to train your AI destroys your business model, maybe you're the arsehole. ;)

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 day ago (10 children)

Why does Sam have such a punchable face?

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[–] [email protected] 217 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I'm fine with this. "We can't succeed without breaking the law" isn't much of an argument.

Do I think the current copyright laws around the world are fine? No, far from it.

But why do they merit an exception to the rules that will make them billions, but the rest of us can be prosecuted in severe and dramatic fashion for much less. Try letting the RIAA know you have a song you've downloaded on your PC that you didn't pay for - tell them it's for "research and training purposes", just like AI uses stuff it didn't pay for - and see what I mean by severe and dramatic.

It should not be one rule for the rich guys to get even richer and the rest of us can eat dirt.

Figure out how to fix the laws in a way that they're fair for everyone, including figuring out a way to compensate the people whose IP you've been stealing.

Until then, deal with the same legal landscape as everyone else. Boo hoo

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 day ago

So pirating full works for commercial use suddenly is "fair use", or what? Lets see what e.g. Disney says about this.

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