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Funny how copyright infringement has made a come back in AI and it's somehow a bad thing. What happened to all of the pirates fighting for our right to not pay for anything?
No one has ever taken the philosophical position that they have the right to sell someone else's work as their own.
Working for yourself, and selling what you produce yourself, is called Cottage Industry and is what Capitalism replaced.
It's fine to nail a $10m verdict against a guy with no money, but dare to tread on the beloved and bespoke * aI iNdUsTrY * and suddenly you've got better things to do?
Funny how copyright infringement has made a come back in AI and it's somehow a bad thing. What happened to all of the pirates fighting for our right to not pay for anything?
If it was the same for everyone I would have much less problem with this but it's the glaring disparity in how different parties are expected to behave that is truly repugnant.
In other words: It would punish the ones who steal. Which is normally considered a good thing in society, unless you're a Big (Tech) Company who's entire business model rests on the extraction of value (i.e. free labor) from less powerful entities.
> "And by the way if you did it in Britain and no one else did it, you would basically kill the AI industry in this country overnight."
This is important to keep in mind. There are competing AI R&D orgs in dozens of different countries, not just America, China and France.
Licensing law is the opposite: you are not permitted to do anything with a protected work unless you have been granted a prior written license.
(exceptions: fair use for scientific, non-commercial research, and copyright expiry e.g. seven decades after the death of the author, depending on the jurisdiction, of course.)
They tried to make this guy prime minister when I was a kid.
I voted for him! I actually agree with him on this though, AI is a bigger net benefit to humanity than some artists' IP.
The fact that you refer to an actual human being as “some artist” betrays the absolute disdain you hold for humanity and in my opinion should disqualify you from polite discourse of any kind.
They tried to make this guy prime minister when I was a kid.
I voted for him! I actually agree with him on this though, AI is a bigger net benefit to humanity than some artists' IP.
In most areas of law, whatever is not forbidden, is permitted. Licensing law is the opposite: you are not permitted to do anything with a protected work unless you have been granted a prior written license. (exceptions: fair use for scientific, non-commercial research, and copyright expiry e.g. seven decades after the death of the author, depending on the jurisdiction, of course.)