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by Ekaros 636 days ago
This site is weird when you compare it to open source software projects and these same companies selling those as a service on their platforms it is again huge massive problem and exploitation... When the license explicitly allows that, without single legal question.

I wonder if things would be different if software could be copied and then recreated by these models by the mega corps. Would there still be such push in favour of it?
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Dylan16807 636 days ago
The people arguing in favor of AI use are not in fact arguing for "an unlimited license to do whatever you want" so that solves that apparent hypocrisy nice and quick.

Also your theoretical software cloner would also make clones of proprietary software, right? I think that would be welcomed just fine.

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__loam 635 days ago
They're apparently arguing for the legal right to use all content on the internet to create a product that is commercial and competes with the original content.
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Dylan16807 635 days ago
As long as it's only borrowing very small amounts from any particular source work, I think it's fine for a new work to be commercial and compete with the originals.
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__loam 635 days ago
They ingested the whole work.
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Dylan16807 635 days ago
Is that a problem? Ingesting entire works is the norm, no matter how much gets used.
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