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OpenAI declares AI race “over” if training on copyrighted works isn’t fair use (arstechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Whoever brings Aaron Swartz back gets to violate all the copyright laws

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Aaron Swartz was 100% opposed to all copyright laws, you remember that yah?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yes, and he killed himself after the FBI was throwing the book at him for doing exactly what these AI assholes are doing without repercussion

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

And for some reason suddenly everyone leaps back to the side of the FBI and copyright because it's a meme to hate on LLMs.

It's almost like people don't have real convictions.

You can't be Team Aaron when it's popular and then Team Copyright Maximalist when the winds change and it's time to hate on LLMs or diffusion models.

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

I'm not just a copyright abolitionnist, I also abhor all intellectual property. Yes, even trademsrk

[–] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Me too. I fundamentally oppose the idea that ideas can be owned, even by oneself.

But a weird cult has developed around copyright where people think they are on the side of the little guy by defending copyright.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

It's classic false consciousness of the temporarily embarrassed billionaire, except for the benefit of the blood 🐭 mouse in this case

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

And he also said "child pornography is not necessarily abuse."

In the US, it is illegal to possess or distribute child pornography, apparently because doing so will encourage people to sexually abuse children.

This is absurd logic. Child pornography is not necessarily abuse. Even if it was, preventing the distribution or posession of the evidence won't make the abuse go away. We don't arrest everyone with videotapes of murders, or make it illegal for TV stations to show people being killed.

Wired has an article on how these laws destroy honest people's lives.

https://web.archive.org/web/20130116210225/http://bits.are.notabug.com/

Big yikes from me whenever I see him venerated.