In 2010, anti-copyright activist Aaron Swartz hanged himself after being prosecuted to the full extent of the law for making copyrighted academic publications freely available. Today, academic publishers are insisting those copyrights be lifted to feed the corporate AI slop machine.
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You'd think that chat GPT had no users or was a bad product to use.
It has 1.6 billion users.
200 million of them use it weekly.
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Though a cigarette is purely for pleasure, genAi provides opportunities for learning, research, etc.
It's not going away and will accelerate human technology.
Thoughts?
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Which honestly should be a good opportunity to look at green energy and nuclear power as the future of powering new high energy draw technologies.
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It’s also a bad product.
Two things can be true at the same time.
Genuinely curious to hear your thoughts.
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What level of exposure have you gotten and in what capacity/form?
Just genuinely curious from what you are coming from.
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I’d like to be far less exposed to genAI, thank you very much.
And I hope the EU starts to crack down on the copyright laws rather sooner than later.
the trend of the EU being the sensible regulatory alt to the US could be hampered.
(Small correction to OP: he died in 2013, not 2010) https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/the-brilliant-life-and-tragic-death-of-aaron-swartz-177191/
A giant IT fad that has certain good uses, but is hyped beyond belief and will implode in a year or two. These happen all the time. 10 years ago it was Blockchain. After AI it will be something else. IT loves fads.
he was prosecuted cause he was a repeat offender and he wasn't prosecuted to the full extent of the law, he was charged which for a kid with rich parents is NOT the same thing
Which won't be much different from my freshman year, or those eight months I spent overseas.
Otherwise it's bad.
"Impossible to have sex with anyone I want if I have to abide by my marriage vows," says area man.
"Impossible to get to work after oversleeping if I have to obey traffic laws," says speeding driver.
small artists can't go sueing around corps with a ton of lawyers, the only thing stoping (and only sometimes!) big corps from plagiarism is the court of public opinion, nothing else
people would be able to get money for doing fanfic and fanart and whatever they wanted.
Also it really is funny how your argument is "but that would reduce artists to proletariats we wouldn't be artisan workers anymore" – yea welcome to the club, if you don't like being a proletariat, organize
They tortured one person to death in the name of copyright just a few years ago, now they're willing to abandon the concept entirely.
Yes—context and intent are ever-moving targets.
What you are saying is best expressed that you wish to educate people for their personal benefit, but not machines for the gain of corporations.
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http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/prostartup