Piracy is not theft.
What OpenAI is doing is not piracy.
Whatever it is, it isn’t theft
Yeah but I don’t sell ripped dvds and copies of other peoples art.
When a corporation does it to get a competitive edge, it is.
No it’s not.
It can be problematic behaviour, you can make it illegal if you want, but at a fundamental level, making a copy of something is not the same thing as stealing something.
it uses the result of your labor without compensation. it’s not theft of the copyrighted material. it’s theft of the payment.
it’s different from piracy in that piracy doesn’t equate to lost sales. someone who pirates a song or game probably does so because they wouldn’t buy it otherwise. either they can’t afford or they don’t find it worth doing so. so if they couldn’t pirate it, they still wouldn’t buy it.
but this is a company using labor without paying you, something that they otherwise definitely have to do. he literally says it would be over if they couldn’t get this data. they just don’t want to pay for it.
Fuck Sam Altmann, the fartsniffer who convinced himself & a few other dumb people that his company really has the leverage to make such demands.
“Oh, but democracy!” - saying that in the US of 2025 is a whole 'nother kind of dumb.
Anyhow, you don’t give a single fuck about democracy, you’re just scared because a chinese company offers what you offer for a fraction of the price/resources.Your scared for your government money and basically begging for one more handout “to save democracy”.
Yes, I’ve been listening to Ed Zitron.
Okay, I can work with this. Hey Altman you can train on anything that’s public domain, now go take those fuck ton of billions and fight the copyright laws to make public domain make sense again.
If this passes, piracy websites can rebrand as AI training material websites and we can all run a crappy model locally to train on pirated material.
That would work if you were rich and friends with government officials. I don’t like your chances otherwise.
You are a glass half full sort of person!
Oh it’s “over”? Fine for me
This is a tough one
Open-ai is full of shit and should die but then again, so should copyright law as it currently is
Oh no not the plagiarism machine however would we recover???
Please fail and die openai thx
Also copyright is bullshit and IP shouldn’t exist especially for corporate entities. Free sharing of human knowledge and creativity should be a right. Machine plagiarism to create uninspired mimicries isn’t a necessary part of that process and should be regulated heavily
This is why they killed that former employee.
Say his name y’all
Suchir Balaji
Sorry, wasn’t trying to be a dick. Just couldn’t think of it at the time.
No worries wasn’t trying to call you out just making a point
