Training an AI on something doesn't involve copying it.
FaceDeer
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And under copyleft licensing, they're allowed to do that. Both to GitHub repositories and Wikipedia.
Why would that matter? You can fork such projects too.
If you want to argue that Lemmy doesn't represent users at large, or that the people complaining about AI are a loud minority, go for it.
Yes, that's exactly what I'm doing. Though specifically this community, not Lemmy as a whole (I'm not a Lemmy user myself for that matter).
You made an assertion about what end users want. I'm an end user and my desires are not the same as your desires.
But if the sentiment is that common, maybe there's something to it.
Or maybe it's just a common fallacy. Like argumentum ad populum.
Training an AI does not involve copying anything so why would you think that fair use is even a factor here? It's outside of copyright altogether. You can't copyright concepts.
Downloading pirated books to your computer does involve copyright violation, sure, but it's a violation by the uploader. And look at what community we're in, are we going to get all high and mighty about that?