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by elijahwright 647 days ago
We should nationalize OpenAI as punishment for the flagrant copyright violation they've taken part in. Either give every aggrieved author points in the company, or fine them for something like the GDP of the entire planet (round up - to maybe fifty trillion dollars?) and establish a fund that pays for global education and the production of new works.

They literally are thieves of the world's entire intellectual output. "For training the model", they say.

Yeah, there's a lot of bullshit going around.

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>They literally are thieves of the world's entire intellectual output.

I recall hearing these accusations two decades ago about Google and particularly Google Books. And here I am, an average Joe on the internet, being able to get in a few minutes the specific information I am looking for about any subject, which would have taken me a few days of perusing a library and its databases. If this is thieving, to me it's as if Robin Hood came to town.