Has Trump dismantled libraries already?
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WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks agoIf humans have to pay for knowledge with expensive student loans and book purchases, why should AI get that same knowledge for free?
Lemmist@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Lemmist@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
In this case, AI reading for free should be your least important problem :)
Grimy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Because if AI has to pay, you kill the open-source scene and give a fat monopoly to the handful of companies that can afford the data. Not to mention that data is owned by a few publishing house and none of the writers are getting a dime.
Yes it’s silly that students pay so much, but we should be arguing for less copyrights so we can have both proper prices in education and a vibrant open source scene.
Most people argue for a strengthening of copyrights which only helps data brokers and big AI players. If you want subscription services and censorship while still keeping all the drawbacks of AI, this is how you do it.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
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Grimy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
How does that change if copyrights are strengthened? The open source scene dies and the big players will still keep scraping.
doodledup@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The entire open-source scene grew out of that exact system before LLMs even existed. What are you talking about?
Grimy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
AI has always been able to train on copyrighted data because it’s considered transformative.
If this changes, seeing the huge amount of data needed for competitive generative AI, then open source AI cannot afford the data and dies. Strengthening copyrights would force everyone out of the game except Meta, Google and Microsoft.
That system that open source AI grew out of is exactly what is being attacked.
JustARaccoon@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Cool then buy at least one copy of a book instead of pirating them.