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[-] ag_roberston_author@beehaw.org 84 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm actually surprised by the comments in here. This technology is incredibly disruptive to authors, if they are correct that their intellectual property has been misused by these companies to train LLMs, then they absolutely should have the right to prevent that.

You can both be pro AI and advancement, and still respect creators intellectual rights and the right to not have all content stolen by megacorporations and used by them to create profits while decimating entire industries.

[-] dan@upvote.au 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

One of the largest communities on Lemmy is !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com, so I'm not really surprised that there's people that don't care about copyright :)

On the other hand, if a human is allowed to write a summary of a book, why should an AI not be allowed to do the same thing? Are they going to sue cliffnotes too?

[-] fulano@lemmy.eco.br 8 points 1 year ago

Hold on, piracy isn't necessarily not caring about copyright, but can be (and is, in a lot of cases), about fighting against the big corporations who take advantage of historically abusive copyright laws to dominate the market and prevent small authors and companies from surviving.

These AI companies, despite being copyright violators, are much closer to the big IP monopolists than the small authors, which are victims of both groups.

[-] dan@upvote.au 4 points 1 year ago

about fighting against the big corporations who take advantage of historically abusive copyright laws to dominate the market and prevent small authors and companies from surviving.

If people were really that principled, they'd totally boycott the big corporations and only consume media from the small authors and companies.

[-] fulano@lemmy.eco.br 3 points 1 year ago

You made a great point. This is exactly my issue with piracy. I believe it's a movement in the wrong direction, because it actually benefits the big media in the end.

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