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> "Big Tech vs. Big Copyright"

Indeed. But when do those intersect or diverge?

I don't blame him. What would you do? If I had a near perfect data training set of all the most useful books and a hungry AI to train, it would be the logical step.

The reason this is news is because of the stinking hypocrisy of it all. It's really the same topic as the Swartz-Altman discussion here [0], in that these giant companies want to have it both ways.

Where is Zuckerberg's shout-out for Alexandra Elbakyan? [1] Or for Brewster Kahle? Or any of the wast army of people who preserve and curate the vital culture of humanity by protecting it from intellectual property dungeons?

The colossal hypocrisy is that a company like Meta wishes to live under the protective umbrella of "Intellectual Property". It wants to stop me just stealing it's stuff and setting up a better Facebook

Were it exposed to the same rules it wishes to live by, it would be torn apart by vibrant and deserving competition within days.

All the Zuckerberg, Meta or OpenAI are doing is setting the ground for the abolition of intellectual property. They are literally the proverbial people who will buy the rope with which to hang themselves.

(Edit. that doesn't make sense insert <proverb about buying ropes that actually makes sense>)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42671427

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_Elbakyan



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