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floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

Because they’re getting punished for providing books to people, while OpenAI & friends have been infringing copyright on a much, much bigger scale, and getting away with it. As always, the point isn’t author’s rights, it’s money.

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p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

while OpenAI & friends have been infringing copyright on a much, much bigger scale, and getting away with it.

Based on what? Distributing numbers in a big database doesn’t infringe on copyright, and downloading a web page or image doesn’t either.

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- floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  You’re right, I apologize, my use of “infringing copyright” was too loose there. What I meant in that context is more like “stealing and then re-selling the identity and essence of every human creation to ever be made into ones and zeros”
  
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