Thread | Brutkey

If you think “#AI” is theft and also actively used #Napster, come sit down next to me.

Let’s talk through the meaning of “intellectual honesty.”

Jeremy Kahn
@trochee@dair-community.social

@paninid@mastodon.world

I can hold both of these positions without anxiety

One is the enclosure and extraction of the entire commons: the free grant of drilling rights in a national park
The other is picking some berries as you walk along the forest trail in the same park

Neither of them is paying, but scale and extraction are not the same.

Androcat
@androcat@toot.cat

@paninid@mastodon.world If you think copyright applies most particularly to individual users, rather than to large-scale companies, you really ought to reconsider.

AI models are trained on work, so they can replace work. This is obviously true.

Ignore for a moment that they can't replace work very well. That doesn't stop the dishonest peddlers from selling them as if they could.

The work the AI models are trained on is the work of authors with copyright.

The work is being stolen (taken without agreement or recompense) in bulk, for profit.

Every single aspect of copyright breach is in play.

If that isn't theft, theft doesn't exist.

And yes, an individual consumer is in the clear for making a copy of a work. That's never been what copyright laws was for.