Of course we would! How dare you assume the same rules apply to us as to you, filthy plebe?
Why is it stealing in the first place!? Humanity is built on sharing, cooperation and community. Especially knowledge only profits from being shared.
I'm not for LLM garbage, I'm against IP.
Because current material conditions require that workers hold a copyright on their productions lest they be denied compensation required for survival under our capitalist system.
You don’t stop paying rent just because housing should be a right.
We all know what the better system should be, but we need to get there.
The biggest problem is that workers generally dont hold those rights, the people they contract with do.
These laws aren't protecting workers, they're protecting corporations, they're protecting capital. Unless that changes, IP laws are so broken there's no point in honoring them except to avoid punishment.
Its basically better to go around them and support workers directly than to try and give them a pittance through their taskmasters.
Anything that is a right still costs money (or someone's time and effort). It should be affordable, or subsidized by the government (paid by taxes) but nothing is free. Education, Healthcare, housing, clean water, etc.
You don’t stop paying rent just because housing should be a right.
Maybe you don't. They call me Papa Squat for a reason
I thought it was because you’re always shitting in the yard
There can be more than one reason
In case you're not aware, it's making fun of the You Wouldn't Steal a Car ad campaign from the MPAA in 2004.
In which they actually stole the font to make the ad
Humanity is built on sharing, cooperation and community.
Was.
Yes, we all benefit when knowledge is shared. Until gathering that knowledge is cost-free, there's a compensation requirement for expertise.
And any point in time when corps want to take the knowledge and lock it up to monetize it, we especially need to bring out intellectual property laws to keep our knowledge open and free.
World book, Webster's dictionary and the Bible are user-pay repositories of very curated knowledge, for instance. If you're basing your opinion on these as mechanisms for sharing our collective experience, understand they don't freely share free info -- that both freedoms aren't present.
I was moderately in the "piracy is stealing" camp until both this shit happened, and EVERYTHING got enshittified.
Fuck em.
I have always been in both camps.
I have always held to a strict code of, "make no profit".
I share what I have, and sell nothing. not even at cost.
IP rights are important, but there is zero harm sharing IP freely. it's no different than watching a movie from a public library.
Once you start selling though, is when you cross a line of profiting off of someone else's hard work.
AI crossed that line.
That's a good framework, and I appreciate you sharing it, because I realise that aligns with how I think about this too — I just hadn't put it into such succinct words as you just have
Joel Tenenbaum must be feeling pretty silly for not thinking to argue in court that he downloaded mp3s for a business instead of personal use.
Nice t-shirt design, where can I download it?
I will steal that font though
That anti-piracy campaign inserted in every DVD release aged like milk.
It is not the sum total. There is so much more that was never written on the internet. In my profession, I use AI for scripting and web searching but offers next to no information or help with my main gig.
We can remake the last 2 seasons of Game of Thrones using Game of Thrones itself as training data.
We can make Bran fly out of another window.
Where can I buy this.
Why buy when can steal?
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