• AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml
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    11 hours ago

    they stole all there data

    Obviously fuck the capitalists and AI scammers. But reading and learning from a library, then writing and selling your own book based on that is NOT stealing. It’s the wrong argument.

    The answer obviously is to keep the actual source material and libraries and book archives open and just run open source AI models at home. You can run smaller versions on a solar powered PC no problem.

    The issue with trying to make “AI is just stolen” happen is that it will make open source AI models illegal. AI companies would love that because they can afford to license and pay or work around or obscure or whatever. The “intellectual property” argument is always a disgusting capitalist one. Knowledge is either free or nothing is.

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      2 hours ago

      But reading and learning from a library, then writing and selling your own book based on that is NOT stealing. It’s the wrong argument.

      A powerful argument if one cannot tell the difference between a person and a product.

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      10 hours ago

      Library implies consent that was not there and access to the public that was not there.

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      9 hours ago

      Except these people are turning around and burningdown the libraries once they’ve read all the books.

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      But reading and learning from a library, then writing and selling your own book based on that is NOT stealing.

      It could be argued that these AIs are not actually learning but collecting and rearranging. That’s still stealing in my book, especially if it happens on a massive industrial scale and by a megacorp instead of a person.