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[Not the Onion] OpenAI Pleads... (hexbear.net)

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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...

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[-] blunder@hexbear.net 8 points 7 hours ago

he-admit-it

[-] Thordros@hexbear.net 18 points 9 hours ago

ATTN: Sam Altman

Please be aware that photographs of my dick and balls are freely available for OpenAI to use.

[-] Thordros@hexbear.net 15 points 9 hours ago

CONTENT SCRAPE DEEZ NUTS LMAO

[-] Blottergrass@hexbear.net 32 points 10 hours ago

Reminder: the more we all shitpost, the worse AI gets.

[-] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 14 points 9 hours ago

This is why Beanis posting is praxis beanis

[-] LocalOaf@hexbear.net 14 points 9 hours ago

"The longer the Icon of Sin is on Earth, the more powerful he will become"

[-] Owl@hexbear.net 32 points 10 hours ago

It's impossible for my "Sitting on my ass while Sam Altman sends me $1000 a day" business to make money without Sam Altman sending me $1000 a day. Do the right thing, Sam. For business.

[-] PKMKII@hexbear.net 51 points 12 hours ago

“Our code IP is sacred, your creative IP can be freely pilfered.”

[-] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 6 points 4 hours ago

Our priceless IP, their worthless training data.

[-] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 25 points 11 hours ago

"Help my business isn't profitable unless we (read: everybody else) move heaven and earth."

[-] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 45 points 12 hours ago

It’s impossible for me to make money in my “selling other people’s copyrighted materials without their permission or without paying them” business as well, can British parliament do something for me?

[-] crime@hexbear.net 39 points 12 hours ago

critical support to... uh... draconian IP laws, I guess

[-] Sulvor@hexbear.net 34 points 11 hours ago

Critical support to OpenAI abolishing copyright?

[-] jackmarxist@hexbear.net 29 points 10 hours ago

Lol they're the only ones who'll get the exception. It'll remain the same for plebs.

[-] Sulvor@hexbear.net 13 points 10 hours ago

yea

[-] worlds_okayest_mech_pilot@hexbear.net 10 points 10 hours ago

I support the endless legal challenges that use this as precedent, at least. Maybe after the lawsuit case load goes up past the quadruple digits they'll reconsider individual exceptions to copyright infringement

[-] MLRL_Commie@hexbear.net 4 points 7 hours ago

This is the correct position. On the longer and larger scale, IP is the much more powerful regressive aspect. OpenAI is damaging to the environment, but some other company is gonna find some shitty way to do the damaging stuff they're doing regardless of the method of profiting off it. The positive effects of damaging copyright are way larger than the slight shift which OpenAIs failure would have

[-] crime@hexbear.net 18 points 11 hours ago

whoever loses, we win bloomer

[-] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 18 points 12 hours ago

let-them-fight

[-] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 16 points 10 hours ago

Nationalize OpenAI.

[-] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

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.

[-] buckykat@hexbear.net 8 points 8 hours ago

Pretty sure that was basically how the East India Company worked

[-] PKMKII@hexbear.net 9 points 10 hours ago

Bit idea: the paulie-point 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.

[-] LocalOaf@hexbear.net 9 points 9 hours ago

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!

[-] YoungSheldonAdelson@hexbear.net 16 points 11 hours ago

How would someone even go about finding out their specific creative work has been scraped and stolen by these AI companies? Back when I was active people would just steal my [commissioned] work outright and claim they were me. Now it's buried under a thousand layers of algorithmically-generated bullshit that itself is based on previously referenced work.

The "I made this" comic pops into my head on a weekly basis now.