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[-] deathbird@mander.xyz 29 points 2 months ago

I mean honestly this AI era is the time for these absurd anti-piracy penalties to be enforced. Meta downloads libgen? $250,000 per book plus jail time to the person who's responsible.

Oh but laws aren't for the rich and powerful you see!

[-] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 4 points 2 months ago

Always have been. Jpeg

[-] deathbird@mander.xyz 26 points 2 months ago

Normal people pirate: one hundred bazillion dollars fine for download The Hangover.

One hundred bazillion dollars company pirate: special law to say it okay because poor company no can exist without pirate 😞

[-] arararagi@ani.social 19 points 2 months ago

If AI companies can pirate, so can individuals.

[-] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 25 points 2 months ago

You know I am somewhat of a large language model myself.

[-] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago

At this rate we will get access to more rights if we can figure out a way to legally classify ourselves as AI.

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[-] HighFructoseLowStand@lemm.ee 16 points 2 months ago

What is the actual justification for this? Everyone has to pay for this except for AI companies, so AI can continue to develop into a universally regarded negative?

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[-] K3zi4@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

In theory, could you then just register as an AI company and pirate anything?

[-] pdxfed@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

Well no, just the largest ones who can pay some fine or have nearly endless legal funds to discourage challenges to their practice, this bring a form of a pretend business moat. The average company won't be able to and will get shredded.

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[-] Takios@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 2 months ago

hello yes I'm an ai company. let me torrent all the things pls thank you

[-] Scrollone@feddit.it 7 points 2 months ago

That's exactly what Meta did, they torrented the full libgen database of books.

If they can do it, anybody should be able to do it.

[-] golden_zealot@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 months ago

I like how their whole excuse to that was "WE DIDN'T SEED ANY OF IT BACK THOUGH" which arguably makes it even worse lol.

[-] Plasticity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 months ago

Zuck would be a hit and runner....

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[-] zephorah@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago

It’s like the goal is to bleed culture from humanity. Corporate is so keep on the $$$ they’re willing to sacrifice culture to it.

I’ll bet corporate gets to keep their copyrights.

[-] orclev@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Absolute fastest way to kill this shit? Feed the entire Disney catalog in and start producing knockoff Disney movies. Disney would kill this so fast.

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[-] reksas@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 months ago

should start up our own ai company anyone is free to join

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I identify as an AI company ☠️

[-] reksas@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 months ago

no no, i mean people should actually start utilizing this bullshit. Anyone can start a company and with some technical knowhow you can add somekind of ai crap to it. companies dont have to make profit or anything useful so there is no pressure to do anything with it.

But if it comes to copyright law not applying to ai companies, why should some rich assholes be only ones exploiting that? It might lead to some additional legal bullshit that excludes this hypotetical kind of ai company, but that would also highlight better that the law benefits only the rich.

[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago
[-] maplebar@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago

Either get rid of copyright for everything and everyone, or don't.

But no stupid BULLSHIT exception for AI slop.

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[-] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 2 months ago

Oh good I see Labour are dealing with the real issues in society.

[-] 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 3 points 2 months ago

Modern Labour and not giving a fuck about workers, name a more iconic duo.

[-] Zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 months ago

So did this UK "centre-left" party turn out to be a Trojan horse or what? They've dismantled trans rights. They plan on using AI thought police to 'predict' future crimes and criminals. And now they want multibillion corporations to have free access to anyone's work without compensation.

If I hadn't looked this political party up on Wikipedia, by this point I would be assuming that they're a bunch of conservative wankers on Elon Musk's payroll.

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[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago
  1. There’s a practical concern: how do you prevent ai without preventing people.
  2. What if you want to allow search, and how is that different than ai, legally or in practice?
  3. Does this put Reddit in a new light? Free content to users but charging for the api to do bulk download such as for ai?
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[-] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

On the other hand copyright laws have been extended to insane time lengths. Sorry but your grandkids shouldn't profit off of you.

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[-] StonerCowboy@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

How funny this is gonna get when AI copyrights Nintendo stuff. Ah man I got my popcorn ready.

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