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[Not the Onion] OpenAI Pleads...
(hexbear.net)
OpenAI Pleads That It Can't Make Money Without Using Copyrighted Materials for Free
OpenAI is begging the British Parliament to allow it to use copyrighted works because it's supposedly "impossible" for the company to train its artificial intelligence models — and continue growing its multi-billion-dollar business — without them...
If a burglar went to the British Parliament and asked to be allowed to loot other people's properties because his entire business model depends on it, the only difference would be that the burglar is a two-bit sack of shit, while Sam Altman is a billionnaire sack of shit.
Pretty sure that was basically how the East India Company worked
Bit idea: the
moves all their illicit activities onto a smartphone app and rebrands themselves as a fintech startup. Then whenever the law tries to stop them they lobby to congress that the oppressive regulatory regime is hindering technological progress.
Ayy Tone! I made an AI! We gotta get in on this tech racket bullshit, they're just giving money away! This is gonna be bigger than the garbage racket!