it’s not a great comparison I’ll admit, but it’s essentially the same as digital privacy, only one of these is protected in courts and the other is encouraged.
I haven’t sat down to really build a stance on this but it does not sit well.
This comparison is lacking because water is unlike data. The data can still be accessed exactly the same. It doesn’t become less and the access to it is not restricted by other people harvesting it.
Shinji_Ikari@hexbear.net 10 months ago
pjhenry1216@kbin.social 10 months ago
Explain why copyright exists. If copyright exists, what you state doesn't hold legal grounds.
mim@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
While that is true, it does divert peoples’ clicks.
Imagine you wrote a well thought of tech tutorial blog. Is it ok for OpenAI to take your content, train their models, and divert your previous readers away from your blog?
It’s an open ethical question that it’s not straightforward to answer.