Scratch beneath the surface and you’ll find unscrupulous greed here as well.
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Revan343@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
A rare Musk win. Broken clock, I suppose
crusa187@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
void_turtle@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
The reason Musk wants this might be greed, but it’s very stupid if that’s his reason. A huge amount of the US’s global economic power comes from strong-arming the rest of the world to enforce US patents and copyright, thus funneling trillions of dollars from the rest of the world to the US. Without any patents or copyright there would be improved Chinese Tesla copies on the market within a year.
AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world 1 week ago
The Chinese market already has better EVs than Tesla for cheaper afaik. Teslas don’t sell well there anymore.
crusa187@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
Yeah, you’re right, but wielding this power effectively requires thinking beyond the current fiscal quarter.
Also, small nit (because the essence of what you’re saying is absolutely correct), but…ain’t nobody trying to rip off Teslas. They’re absolute garbage, literal dumpster in the case of the cybertruck. Chinese EVs on the market today are already cheaper and better.
That said, from Elon’s perspective I’m pretty sure this is more about training LLMs on presently copy-written material, unhindered by IP protections.
douglasg14b@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Except that the entire premise of this is to allow ai unfettered and unrestricted access to the creations of anyone without any repercussions.
Solely to benefit those owners.
Also guaranteed that this will be one of those situations where IP laws will be removed for everyone except those who stand benefit from this.
So overall there is nothing actually good or winning about this.