Comment on The Irony of 'You Wouldn't Download a Car' Making a Comeback in AI Debates

• masterspace@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  We all should. Copyright is fucking horseshit.

  It costs literally nothing to make a digital copy of something. There is ZERO reason to restrict access to things.

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  • ContrarianTrail@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Making a copy is free. Making the original is not. I don’t expect a professional photographer to hand out their work for free because making copies of it costs nothing.

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    • masterspace@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Making a copy is free. Making the original is not.

      Yes, exactly. Do you see who that is different from the world of physical objects and energy? That is not the case for a physical object. Even once you design something and build a factory to produce it, the first item off the line takes the same amount of resources as the last one.

      Capitalism is based on the idea that things are scarce. If I have something, you can’t have it, and if you want it, then I have to give up my thing, so we end up trading. Information does not work that way. We can freely copy a piece of information as much as we want. Which is why monopolies and capitalism are a bad system of rewarding creators. They inherently cause us to impose scarcity where there is no need for it, because in capitalism things that are abundant do not have value. Capitalism fundamentally fails to function when there is abundance of resources.

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  • Wiz@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    You sound like someone who has not tried to make an artistic creation for profit.

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    • masterspace@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      You sound like someone so entrenched with the way things are done they’re unwilling to consider how they should be done.

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      • Wiz@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Better system for WHOM? Tech-bros that want to steal my content as their own?

        I’m a writer, performing artist, designer, and illustrator. I have thought about copyright quite a bit. I have released some of my stuff into the public domain, as well as the Creative Commons. If you want to use my work, you may - according to the licenses that I provide.

        I also think copyright law is way out of whack. It should go back to - at most - life of author. This “life of author plus 95 years” is ridiculous. I lament that so much great work is being lost or forgotten because of the oppressive copyright laws - especially in the area of computer software.

        But tech-bros that want my work to train their LLMs - they can fuck right off. There are legal thresholds that constitute “fair use” - Is it used for an academic purpose? Is it used for a non-profit use? Is the portion that is being used a small part or the whole thing? LLM software fail all of these tests.

        They can slurp up the entirety of Wikipedia, and they do. But they are not satisfied with the free stuff. But they want my artistic creations, too, without asking. And they want to sell something based on my work, making money off of my work, without asking.

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