• MyOpinion@lemm.ee
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    Then it sounds like your business is a failure and should be shutdown.

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      WHO is the one guy who downvotes you???

      “NO! UNPROFITABLE BUSINESSES DESERVE TO THRIVE!!! MUST FEED THE BILLIONAIRES!!!”

      Maybe OpenAI learned to downvote…

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        I’ve seen threads where every single comment, no matter how anodyne, has 1 downvote. Don’t bother yourself over it. That way lies madness.

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            Supercalifragalisticexpialidocuious

            Edit: 10 people here didn’t grow up with Mary Poppins…

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                Just imagine baron bomburst and the child catcher furiously downvoting this comment lol

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                What I get a kick out of is the down and upvotes mean basically nothing and yet people still get super sensitive about them. They only move your comment up or down the thread. It’s not like reddit where there is a karma count for all your posts and comments. Hell you don’t even get auto hidden like the way reddit would do. You just get downvoted.

                Some people downvote to show disapproval. Others downvote if the comment doesn’t add to the conversation. Still others are just trolling. No one should worry about the downvotes.

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                  See I look at it differently.

                  An upvote means:

                  You’re the coolest person that’s ever lived, and I’m desperate for you to put your baby in me, even if that’s not biologically possible! You should be supreme ultimate being of the universe, and all shall cherish your existence until the end of time!

                  And a downvote means:

                  You sack of shit! You human garbage! Nobody loves you. Everyone hates you. The world has a better time when you’re not around, you waste of human skin! Your parents should have used a condom, and the world regrets they didn’t every day. Go live under a bridge, homeless, dirty, and alone, you genetic waste of space.

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          anodyne

          anodyne /ăn′ə-dīn″/ adjective

          1. Capable of soothing or eliminating pain.
          2. Relaxing. “anodyne novels about country life.”
          3. Serving to assuage pain; soothing.

          tanks fer noo werd dae fren

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          I always figure it’s someone whose life has become so pathetic, they bitterly downvote every single comment to try feel some control. And as a result, they feel like the Phantom of the Socials. Alone, but the true master of the place.

          Everyone must wonder, ‘Who keeps downvoting us?’ It is I! The true Master of Lemmy and- No, mother!.. Yes, mother!.. I tried but nobody wants to talk to me!.. I don’t want to!.. Yeah, she’s cute!.. I don’t want you to do that!.. Mother put the phone down!”

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            LOL, I can picture this person. They probably have a gross-looking bandaid on their downvote finger.

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        WHO is the one guy who downvotes you???

        That’s the bot that ChatGPT operates here on Lemmy.

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            Votes aren’t private on the fediverse, it’s just a that some interfaces won’t display them. Also, instance admins can see who voted too.

            But like @Boozilla@lemmy.world said

            Don’t bother yourself over it. That way lies madness.

            It mainly useful for admins to detect if there is some vote manipulation going on.

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        To steel man the downvoters, maybe there are other solutions besides killing off every business that can’t afford to comply with copyright. After all, isn’t the whole point of copyright to enable the capitalist exploitation of information?

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        Lol how about every pirate who fundamentally opposes the copyright system?

        How about everyone who uses Google and doesn’t want to see it shut down for scraping copyrighted content to provide a search engine?

        Seriously, explain to me what’s different at a fundamental level about OpenAI scraping the web and transforming the data through an LLM and Google scraping the web and transforming the data through their algorithms (which include LLMs)?

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          Google (used to) scrapes the specific details authorized by robots.txt and uses it to make your content visible.

          OpenAI scrapes everything it can technically see, ignoring robots.txt and feeds i to a black box and regurgitates it claiming it’s something new, that it deserves to be paid for.

          Quite different actually.

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            So if OpenAI complies with Robots.txt files then there’s no issue right?

            Because then they’re identical. Open AI spent a bunch of money building a powerful system they feed those results to, as did Google.

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              No, the issue is that anything AI creates is by definition derivative. Google doesn’t whip up generative content, it points you to content.

              OpenAI is claiming that they can’t do shit without scraping copyrighted works and we all know that’s a load of BS because we’re adrift in a sea of royalty-free text. Critical mass happened well over a decade ago. The amount of new random crap hosted on the internet in the past 30 days would probably take 500 years for one person to digest. Bear at a stream watching an impossibly large amount of salmon jumping

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                Actually Google tries their hardest NOT to point you to content. They scrape the data from sites and display it directly in the search results so that you don’t need to visit any site except Google. Their new AI answers that they are pushing on users are just another step in that direction.

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                  Which is why Google is no longer my default browser. I’d be quite happy if it reverted Back to don’t be evil or just ceased ro exist

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                Literally every page Google shows you, where it also shows you those ads it makes money from, is Google’s content and it is derived from the data it gets scraping the web.

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                  What the fuck are you even talking about? Making a list of website identifiers (names and URLs) so that people can go to them isn’t even slightly the same as making a derived work of the websites’ contents.

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                  No, anything Google shows you is kosher and totally symbiotic. A website being shown on Google is at the site owner’s discretion - if they allow search engines to crawl they get the benefit of exposure, and the search engine gets the benefit of having relevant hits and ad revenue and all that. Most sites want click-throughs so it’s usually in their best interest to let search engines list their sites.

                  Google isn’t exploiting anyone, kinda the opposite, since site owners don’t pay for any ads or exposure (but that exposure has so much value that they’ll pay for SEO). Site owners can decline and Google abides. Anything on Google is on Google with consent.

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          Web search used to be about scraping the web to find and present other people’s work as just that… their work. Now the handful of websites claim ownership of the contributions of everyone, and at this point it’s just corporations arguing about who owns your stuff. Pirates will not win out in this argument, except maybe in the very short term.

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          Search engines provide source, they scrap for indexing, but your search gives a list of websites that matches that you will then likely visit. That’s a big fundamental difference.

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            Yes they do, just indirectly, it’s how they monopolized the online advertising business.

        • I dont see why why being downvoted you make some very good points.

          Id actually like to see google shut down on copyright grounds. The innovation of necessity would drive foss search alternatives that just ignore said restrictions and most likly we would end up with a better product.

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        I’d love to see how scared some big companies would be if we could decriminalize piracy

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      Honestly this meme is way understating the sinisterness

      • Election interference for money machine
      • Whole internet is ads company
      • Dopamine addiction for all children
      • Superpowers for law enforcement
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    In every other circumstance I can think of, “I can’t make money doing a thing unless I break the law” means don’t do that thing.

    Why should AI get special treatment?

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      Well in almost every other circumstance, you’re forgetting Uber and Airbnb.

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          Now about that fake money for criminals - it was quite useful for me when I needed to send money to my sister, with me being in Russia and her being outside, and it was year 2022. Also with the way ruble sank after the war, buying BTC hours after seeing news of it starting was probably a bargain. Would be twice as expensive the next day.

          I haven’t used Uber (Yandex Taxi) and Airbnb (asocial type and have responsibilities), and I agree about the plagiarism machine.

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            So you didn’t do the crime, but your home country did, and you could use crypto to make life easier despite the repercussions. I’d say it’s not a bad fit.

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              Nah. Arbitrary shit that doesn’t hurt those who did the crime, but does hurt me, is not repercussions. Neither is it a crime to find tools to solve such problems.

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            Sorry to break it to you, but bypassing sections is a crime. You just proved his point. Sanctions are supposed to make life difficult for the people in sanctioned countries so that those people maybe start doing something to the person causing the problems.

            It may be useful, but it was designed to facilitate criminal payments.

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              Sanctions are supposed to make life difficult for the people in sanctioned countries so that those people maybe start doing something to the person causing the problems.

              Nah. They are supposed to reduce connectivity for everyone except the right people with connections, who deal in shit big enough, like oil, gas etc, but not us serfs and not businessmen who don’t respect their government officials enough to bribe them. This worked especially well in the Iron Curtain times, and it seems there are people nostalgic of that now.

              First, spitting into my soup for something other people did is not going to make me more pissed at them (suppose I already was), it’s going to make me more pissed at those spitting into my soup.

              Second, knowing that Israel isn’t sanctioned, Turkey isn’t sanctioned, Azerbaijan isn’t sanctioned, but Russia is, not being better, makes it extremely hard to believe that those sanctions are meant to solve problems. Even if I didn’t know how they work.

              Third, a country can’t make something a crime outside their jurisdiction.

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        Ah yes, the original unviable silicon valley businesses! I love how they used their VC money to undercut and kill small businesses all over the world.

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        AirBNB is currently failing. Uber likely will when people catch on to “dynamic pricing”

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      The more the original work is transformed, the more likely it is to be considered fair use rather than infringement.

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    Cool. If OpenAI gets a pass, then piracy should be legal, right? I mean what good is a trademark or copyright law?

    Edit: “I can’t make money without stealing other people’s work” is definitely a take

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      No, see, piracy is just you downloading movies for yourself. To be like OpenAI you need to download it, put it in a pretty package with a bow, then sell it over and over again. Only when it’s piracy for profit do you get to beg and plead for a pass.

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      “I can’t be at financial peace if I have to pay for every movie I want to watch”

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      You’re not repackaging and selling it on for profit tho. That’s different and thus illegal because reasons

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    then perish

    If I was exempt from copyright, I too could easily make oodles of money

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    Sounds like an argument slave owners would use. “My plantation can’t make money without free labor!”

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      How do you think slave owners got bailouts after the 13th amendment was passed and the slaves got freed?

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        They used that part of the 13th that said “Well, except prisoners, those can be slaves.” Local law enforcement rounded up former slaves on trumped up charges and leased them back to the same plantation owners they were freed from. Only now if they escaped they were “escaped criminals” and they could count on even northern law enforcement returning them. The US is still a pro-slavery country and will be as long as that part of the 13th amendment stands.

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        Reminds me of that time the Federal government granted land parcels to a bunch of former slaves (using land from plantations) and then rescinded them again.

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      Copying information is not the same thing as stealing, let alone forcing people into slavery.

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        appreciate the important reality check, but I think the parent was just highlighting the absurdity of the original argument with hyperbole.

        people are in jail for doing exactly what this company is doing. either enforce the laws equally (!) or change them (whatever that means in late stage capitalism).

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          Let’s advocate for no one going to prison for scraping information then. Let’s pick the second one where we don’t put more people into prison.

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    I’m going to start pirating again and if I ever get caught up I’ll just inform them I’m training AI models.

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      The current generation of data hungry AI models with energy requirements of a small country should be replaced ASAP, so if copyright laws spur innovation in that direction I am all for it.

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    “Limiting training data to public domain books and drawings created more than a century ago might yield an interesting experiment, but would not provide AI systems that meet the needs of today’s citizens.”

    exactly which “needs” are they trying to meet?

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    Boo fucking hoo. Everyone else has to make licensing agreements for this kind of shit, pay up.

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    If a company cannot do business without breaking the law it simply is a criminal organisation. RICO act, anyone?

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    But if you’re the Internet Archive, fuck you its lawsuit time. I hate this cyberpunk present.

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    You wouldn’t download a collection of all the art and knowledge ever documented in the entire history of the known universe…