The US is straight up owned by oligarchs. They can steal data, build products around said stolen data, and make you pay for the product built around said stolen data. But god forbid you dabble in piracy just so you can read a book, or a research paper, or expand your education without making anyone rich. No, only the parasite class is allowed to rake in billions of pieces of stolen content and force feed that back to you.
“A copyright strategy that promotes the freedom to learn” - computers have more rights than people at this point.
My father got arrested and almost jailed for burning MP3 and audio disks for money. These people can scrape other people’s work for profit, and then get applauded by investors.
Piracy for me but not for thee.
I wonder if the next step will be making it able for a human to copyright the output of generative AI models, only for that these companies making sure through terms of use that they’ll be holding 50+% of the copyright and the profits in case of selling their slop.
When Aaron Schwartz was in trouble for downloading copyrighted articles everyone was on the side of “copyright laws are dumb and need to be changed”.
Now it’s more popular to hate on AI and so now people want to see strict adherence to copyright law.
It Mmkes it seem like people lack real convictions on the issue and are just being led around by memes.
Copyright law is terribly implemented and needs to change. This isn’t new and doesn’t become less true because your favorite memes want you to dunk on AI.
Copyright laws are dumb and need to be changed.
And I also think that the laws that currently exist should apply to openAI. I don’t see any contradiction there.
The current system where regular people can get screwed over for torrenting movies but techno-oligarch wannabes are free to ignore the law is the absolute worst of both worlds.
To be clear, this isn’t a discussion about removing copyright laws. This is a discussion about specifically big data collecting tech companies being immune to the laws which still apply to everyone else.
I never suggested or implied that copyright laws need to be removed.
It does appear that OpenAI’s position is “copyright laws are dumb and need to be changed” which, during the Aaron Schwartz story, was the position of the community.
Now, since the entity involved is an AI company, we’re seeing people who’re on the side of using copyright laws to punish infringers because they don’t like AI.
Either copyright laws need to be changed or they don’t need to be changed. Someone’s position on the topic shouldn’t change based on who is being negatively effected by said laws.
People are being cynical about the laws applying equally to Big Corps vs regular people.
If we make a special case for abolishing copyright if it means you’re training an AI model, does that mean that now everyone can download copyrighted material if they do some form of locally hosted training?
The answer will probably end up being: one rule for the corporations and another for individuals.
That’s what they call ‘stealing’ or ‘piracy’ when the serfs do it.
“Massive copyright infringement”, and it would mean massive fines or jail time for us.
Just for humor’s sake I plugged in the proposal itself into chatgpt to have it give a summary on how it helps or hurts the average american – https://chatgpt.com/share/67d32e59-830c-800c-b9d6-c4abe50b37d4
The way I read that even chat gpt says it needs better safeguards
Overall Verdict
This proposal prioritizes AI industry growth and national security over strong worker and IP protections. If implemented well, it could boost the economy, create jobs, and enhance innovation, but it needs stronger safeguards for workers and content creators to prevent exploitation. The copyright section is the most concerning—it seems to favor big AI firms over independent creators. The export control strategy could be effective in protecting national security but might hinder global AI collaboration.It’s called stealing OpenAI. Call it what it is.
Let’s Eat, Grandma!
Let’s Eat Grandma!
The importance of the comma.
I’m commenting on lemmy, not writing a novel. You knew what I meant 😂
Wow! I wish I could learn from copyrighted materials as freely as OpenAI!
I’ve been training my own mental model with TPB and a VPN for years. Thanks Facebook for showing me that it’s the legal way to do it!
Are you a legal person backed by mega corpo and venture capital?
Then stfu, Toby
