A person downloading a pirated copy of a book w/o any DRM for their own leisure use on their own device is different from a multi trillion dollar corporation who is using those books to train an LLM to make AI Slop and make money from it w/o even crediting the authors for their work.
Iconoclast@feddit.uk 7 hours ago
The difference is only in scale. Stealing is stealing independent of if it’s for personal use or not.
Diurnambule@jlai.lu 6 hours ago
Scale ? How much did Mr random made by selling a shitty copy of the book they pirated ? Meta won at least million using their copy machine yo increase the company stock price.
CoolCat@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Scale is not the only difference. The companies who do this end up making money with something trained on someone’s else’s work. If a regular Joe Shmoe pirates a book, they don’t earn anything with it.
Iconoclast@feddit.uk 4 hours ago
That’s not entirely true either. There’s no practical difference between saving 50 bucks and earning 50 bucks. In both cases you’re left with more money to spend. Piracy is equally a financial decision even if it’s just for personal use. You’re saving what ever amount it would’ve cost to buy that media.
sonofearth@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Iconoclast@feddit.uk 4 hours ago
I’m using theft an an example due to it being the closest equivalent. The point still stands: if it’s wrong for an company to do it at scale, then it’s wrong when an idividual does it too.