I'm shocked at how otherwise normally "progressive" folks or even so called "communists" will start to bend over for IP-laws the moment that they start to realize the implications of AI systems. Glad to know that accusations of the "gnulag" were unfounded I guess!
I now don't believe most "creative" types when they try to spout radical egalitarian ideologies. They don't mean it at all, and even my own family, who religiously watched radical techno-optimist shows like Star Trek, are now falling into the depths of ludditism and running into the arms of defending copyright trolls
If you're egalitarian, it makes sense to protest when copyright is abolished only for the rich corporations but not for actual people, don't you think? Part of the injustice here is that you can't get access to windows source code, or you can't use Disney characters, or copy most copyrighted material... But OpenAI and github and whatnot can just siphon all data with impunity. Double standard.
Copyright has been abolished for the little guy. I’m talking about AI safety doomers who think huggingface and Civit.AI are somehow not the ultimate good guys in the AI world.
This is a foul mischaracterization of several different viewpoints. Being opposed to a century-long copyright period for Mickey Mouse does not invalidate support for the concept of IP in general, and for the legal system continuing to respect the licensing terms of very lenient licenses such as CC-BY-SA.
I now don't believe most "creative" types when they try to spout radical egalitarian ideologies. They don't mean it at all, and even my own family, who religiously watched radical techno-optimist shows like Star Trek, are now falling into the depths of ludditism and running into the arms of defending copyright trolls