• Jeffool @lemmy.world
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    Holding companies responsible for the infringement of them using copyrighted materials without restitution to the creator is literally the only tool we have in ever changing current copyright laws, and we’re watching it be waved away.

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      You can’t defeat the fascist mental illness with logic. Fascism is a fusion of corporation and state. The only rule of law is whatever the dictator(s) believe protects their regimes/corporations profits.

      In this case, Americas big tech — of which Trump recently merged some with the military — has determined copyright laws should not apply to them, and Trump is voicing their opinion (he doesn’t know how anything works).

      • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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        You can’t defeat the fascist mental illness with logic.

        More generally, you can’t reason people out of an opinion that they didn’t reason their way into in the first place.

  • ieatpwns@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    So what he’s saying is the billionaires funding ai can’t afford to do it legitimately

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      Of course not! If they did then they’d be several fractions of a billion less wealthy!

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    So, hypothetically speaking, if I pirate a bunch of stuff and I get caught, I can claim I used it to train an AI model and all charges are dropped? (According to his statement, not current applicable laws)

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      I needed to pirate that extensive game, movie, and porn library to train a gaming, movie, and porn recomendation model

    • Dr. Moose@lemmy.world
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      Theres a common misconception that downloading data is illegal when it’s generally sharing is what gets you in trouble. There are very few people who get fined for piracy downloads around the world.

      • GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml
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        I believe it’s mostly illegal for both parties, but in practice less often enforced for the downloading party, as this enforcement would require too much resources for the enforcing side.

        To give concrete examples, downloading pirated material is illegal in both the U.S and in Sweden, and afaik the latter is on par with the rest of the EU.

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    So why can’t I read them for free too? Only massive billion dollar companies get stuff for free?

    I would like to announce that I am pioneering a new AI program. Give me access to all of the movies for free please.

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    Yep when Napster just linked people who shared files between them, it was the end of the world. So it’s fine when it’s bigtech / AI?

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      Yes, there are people who want to have authority and think that if they got to the very top - Google, Meta, whatever, or some government, - then their ideas about authority have become law.

      In fact, of course, they are just jerks who’ll drop the soap at every step in prison for the rest of their lives when the problem is finally rectified, and it’s being slowly rectified.

      • krashmo@lemmy.world
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        What are you talking about? Things seem to be rapidly deteriorating to me. There are no problems being rectified.

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          The situation has been made possible by the enormous trust in progress and “technical fashion” that existed recently, that seems to be drying out.

          Say, 10-15 years ago offline-enabled means of communication were a matter of toys for people with no clear idea of future.

          Now people going to protests use them, and the dangers of mainstream Internet services and platforms are also common knowledge.

          So there is some immunity being formed. It’s even better that this happens slowly. I would be worried if this were some fashion spreading rapidly, but now we can see one crowd using Briar, another crowd using Bridgefy, another crowd jumping on Jack Dorsey’s Bitchat, LoRa and Meshtastic growing in popularity, all those things picking different approaches to the same goal, which signifies evolutionary convergence onto a commonly understood set of problems.

          People who were simping for corps no longer do. People who were simping for social media no longer do. People simping for Apple and Google and MS seem to be a rare kind now.

          The response is happening.

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            I hope your right. It’s nice to see questioning of America tech gaint’s monopolies finally now Trump is making America not seaming a safe supplier. More Europe than the UK, but even here, it’s not as fringe to perceive the problem now.

            Not enough yet though. Amazon for example has a load of the market, avoids tax’s and has loads of stuff that isn’t really legal in the market because it doesn’t meet the regs. Example, domestic socket EV chargers (granny leads) should be only up to 10A (as it consistent load and wiring quality varies), but most on Amazon are 13A and a few 16A! Hello house fire. Let alone fake CE marking and EMC emissions.

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      My thoughts exactly. You can’t expect to have a successful file sharing system if you have to get permission for everything you distribute, you guys!

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        Well, there are some very successful file sharing systems. That horse did bolt with Napster.

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    And that’s why I have an AI training library of movies and TV stored up.

    I’ll get around to training an AI on it any day now, I’m sure.

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    Settle down, nerds. TACO just read from the card they gave him. He doesn’t think anything about AI. Of course, he’ll make the wrong decisions and cause utter chaos and strife but it’s not like he has an actual opinion about AI.

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      Also, he’s talking about AI companies, i.e. the people who bribe him. How insolent of you plebes to assume you’d get the same rights.

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      What if president brainrot accidentally kills intellectual property, even glitched out cuckoo clocks are right occasionnally by chance!

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        He gets the papers already ready to sign, I can’t imagine him writing bills.

        At most he can choose the name of the bill, as shown by the latest one, it’s so obvious that even stupid algorithms can guess it

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    “You can’t be expected to get a successful higher education when every article, book, or anything else that you’ve read or studied, you’re supposed to pay for.”

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    Can a human be expected to have a successful life when they have to pay for knowledge they need access to? I am not against the opinion that information should be free and freely accessible. But does this courtesy also extend to the common folk or is it exclusive to expensive machines and their owners? You wouldn’t download a United States government. da-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na