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[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 105 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Training that AI is absolutely fair use.

Selling that AI service that was trained on copyrighted material is absolutely not fair use.

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[–] Hawanja@lemmy.world 36 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] Geodad@lemm.ee 123 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I mean, if they are allowed to go forward then we should be allowed to freely pirate as well.

[–] meowgenau@programming.dev 44 points 2 days ago (1 children)

In the end, we're just training some non-artifical intelligence.

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[–] CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What's wrong with the sentiment expressed in the headline? AI training is not and should not be considered fair use. Also, copyright laws are broken in the west, more so in the east.

We need a global reform of copyright. Where copyrights can (and must) be shared among all creators credited on a work. The copyright must be held by actual people, not corporations (or any other collective entity), and the copyright ends after 30 years or when the all rights holders die, whichever happens first. That copyright should start at the date of initial publication. The copyright should be nontransferable but it should be able to be licensed to any other entity only with a majority consent of all rights holders. At the expiration of the copyright the work in question should immediately enter the public domain.

And fair use should be treated similarly to how it is in the west, where it's decided on a case-by-case basis, but context and profit motive matter.

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[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 40 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Why does Sam have such a punchable face?

[–] demonsword@lemmy.world 31 points 2 days ago (8 children)
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[–] thann@lemmy.dbzer0.com 68 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Slave owners might go broke after abolition? 😂

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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 60 points 2 days ago

So pirating full works for commercial use suddenly is "fair use", or what? Lets see what e.g. Disney says about this.

[–] SaraTonin@lemm.ee 9 points 1 day ago

Musk has an AI project. Techbros have deliberately been sucking up to Trump. I’m pretty sure AI training will be declared fair use and copyright laws will remain the same for everybody else.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Maybe as a consumer product but governments will still want it

[–] azalty@jlai.lu 5 points 1 day ago (14 children)

To be fair, they’re not wrong. We need to find a legal comprise that satisfies everyone

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[–] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

Open can suck some dick.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 74 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Come on guys, his company is only worth $157 billion.

Of course he can't pay for content he needs for his automated bullshit machine. He's not made of money!

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[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 44 points 2 days ago (14 children)

Copyrights should have never been extended longer than 5 years in the first place, either remove draconian copyright laws or outlaw LLM style models using copyrighted material, corpos can't have both.

[–] Rainbowsaurus@lemm.ee 29 points 2 days ago (21 children)

Bro, what? Some books take more than 5 years to write and you want their authors to only have authorship of it for 5 years? Wtf. I have published books that are a dozen years old and I'm in my mid-30s. This is an insane take.

[–] monotremata@lemmy.ca 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The one I thought was a good compromise was 14 years, with the option to file again for a single renewal for a second 14 years. That was the basic system in the US for quite a while, and it has the benefit of being a good fit for the human life span--it means that the stuff that was popular with our parents when we were kids, i.e. the cultural milieu in which we were raised, would be public domain by the time we were adults, and we'd be free to remix it and revisit it. It also covers the vast majority of the sales lifetime of a work, and makes preservation and archiving more generally feasible.

5 years may be an overcorrection, but I think very limited terms like that are closer to the right solution than our current system is.

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[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 90 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

That sounds like a you problem.

"Our business is so bad and barely viable that it can only survive if you allow us to be overtly unethical", great pitch guys.

I mean that's like arguing "our economy is based on slave plantations! If you abolish the practice, you'll destroy our nation!"

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[–] hornedfiend@sopuli.xyz 30 points 2 days ago

over it is then. Buh bye!

[–] HighFructoseLowStand@lemm.ee 13 points 2 days ago

Okay.

It was fun while it lasted.

For someone.

I presume.

Time to sail the high seas.

[–] CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works 29 points 2 days ago

Business that stole everyone's information to train a model complains that businesses can steal information to train models.

Yeah I'll pour one out for folks who promised to open-source their model and then backed out the moment the money appeared... Wankers.

[–] Daelsky@lemmy.ca 34 points 2 days ago

Where are the copyright lawsuits by Nintendo and Disney when you need them lol

[–] FreddyNO@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Sounds good, fuck em

[–] alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 72 points 3 days ago (16 children)

Sam Altman is a grifter, but on this topic he is right.

The reality is, that IP laws in their current form hamper innovation and technological development. Stephan Kinsella has written on this topic for the past 25 years or so and has argued to reform the system.

Here in the Netherlands, we know that it's true. Philips became a great company because they could produce lightbulbs here, which were patented in the UK. We also had a booming margarine business, because we weren't respecting British and French patents and that business laid the foundation for what became Unilever.

And now China is using those exact same tactics to build up their industry. And it gives them a huge competitive advantage.

A good reform would be to revert back to the way copyright and patent law were originally developed, with much shorter terms and requiring a significant fee for a one time extension.

The current terms, lobbied by Disney, are way too restrictive.

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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 29 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So pirating full works suddenly is fair use, or what?

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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 26 points 2 days ago

Good.

Fuck Sam Altman's greed. Pay the fucking artists you're robbing.

[–] SaladKing@lemm.ee 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

This is exactly what social media companies have been doing for a while (it’s free, yes) they use your data to train their algorithms to squeeze more money out of people. They get a tangible and monetary benefit from our collective data. These AI companies want to train their AI on our hard work and then get monetary benefit off of it. How is this not seen as theft or even if they are not doing it just yet…how is it not seen as an attempt at theft?

How come people (not the tech savvy) are unable to see how they are being exploited? These companies are not currently working towards any UBI bills or policies in governments that I am aware of. Since they want to take our work, and use it to get rich and their investors rich why do they think they are justified in using people’s work? It just seems so slime-y.

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[–] eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Oops, oh well. I very much hope it's over, asshole.

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[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 75 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Good if AI fails because it can't abuse copyright. Fuck AI.

*except the stuff used for science that isn't trained on copyrighted scraped data, that use is fine

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[–] RejZoR@lemmy.ml 52 points 2 days ago (10 children)

That's like calling stealing from shops essential for my existence and it would be "over" for me if they stop me. The shit these clowns say is just astounding. It's like they have no morals and no self awareness and awareness for people around them.

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