I think we're just getting started.

Yeah of course, we need to remember Lemmy is not even out of beta yet. But people don't really care, they try it once and if the user experience isn't at the level of competitors they simply won't use it unless there's a philosophical rationale (for example decentralization, but many don't care at all). That's why I'm so happy many developers with great UX experience like Sync are approaching the platform

I mean... What? That's kind of exactly what's happening in lemmy communities

Indeed I can understand this one. I'm really liking Lemmy but discoverability is pretty bad, add the fact the ranking is shit and pretty useless in suggesting interesting content and you will understand his point.

Reddit has both much more content and not only a better ranking system but also a functioning personalized algorithm, if you want to use it.

To this day, all of the non mainstream Lemmy communities I'm following it's because I've used to follow the subreddit and it migrated here.

I don't think the problem is much on the identification side, but on the communities one

Like, I can't access any community on .world while the instance is down

let people reuse each other's melodies

I think this is an interesting example, because it's already like this. Songs reusing other sampled songs are released all the time, and it's all perfectly legal. Only making a copy is illegal. No one can sue you if you create a character that resembles mickey mouse, but you can't use mickey mouse.

And pharmaceutical patents serves the same scope, they encourage the company to release publicly papers, data and synthesis methods so that other people can learn and research can move faster.

And the whole point of this is exactly regulating AI like people, no one will come after you because you've read something and now you have an opinion about it, no body will get angry if you've saw an Instagram post and now you have some ideas for your art.

Of course the distinction between likeness and copy is not that defined, but that's part of the whole debacle

What you mean with "becoming"?

I've always been a crochety asshole, it's just that growing old I'm accepting Squidward was right all along

I feel old

I feel so HECKING old

then go around selling Binbows and MSFT can't do anything about it

I think this already happen. A very practical example, windows GUI has been copied by many Linus distros. And with windows 11 there's clearly a reference to Apple MacOS GUI with a sparkling of Google material design.

Should apple and Google be able to sue Microsoft because it "copied" their work? Should Google be able to sue apple because they "copied" the notification drop-down in iOS?

As you say it's really a grey area because the only reason we consider AI code to be "regurgitated" while human code to be "inspired" is only because we give humans more recognition of their intellectual abilities.

I think the topic is more complex than that.

Otherwise you could say you'd rather stop posting creative endeavours entirely than simply let it be stolen and regurgitated by every single artist who use internet for references and inspiration.

There's not only the argument "but companies do so for profit" because many artist do the same, maybe they are designers, illustrators or other and you'll work will give them ideas for their commissions

Honestly even some environmentalists over here are against wind turbines because they say they are "unnatural" and as such they shouldn't have a place in woods and natural landscapes.

So at this point I'm starting to think we're doomed and fuck everything

Democracy spreads the power out through as many people as possible in order to lessen the potential for abuse by any individual actor

Well, that's not our democracies work. We don't let people vote every law by referendum, that would be spreading power as much as possible.

In ancient Athens it was common, as was common for judiciary decision to be made by 3-4 hundreds people drawn at random. But that's something almost universally considered stupid now, we have a judge, who we consider an "expert" in law.

By your definition, we don't live in a democracy, on the contrary, democracy is extinct on this planet

the classical- and neoliberal ideas that humans are rational actors

Be very careful with this, because this is also the very foundation of democracy. If we start saying humans can't decide for themselves over insignificant phone charger, how could we trust them selecting the people who has much more power than that?

I think the main problem with Lemmy (and with Mastodon and many fediverse software too) is discoverability, expecially when the network is so small like in our case.

Lemmy ranking algorithm suck, it never succede in showing me interesting content, unless you opt for a "subscribed only" feed I can't see why follow communities if they never impact how they appear, and discovering new interesting communities is basically impossible, all the ones I follow are from reddit refugees that left a pinned post on Reddit saying "you can find us at this Lemmy instance as c/..."