[mullingitover]

> It was invented to prevent verbatim reprints of books

It was also invented to keep the publishing houses under control and keep them from papering the land in anti-crown propaganda (like the stuff that fueled the civil war in England and got Charles I beheaded).

Probably one of the biggest brewing fights will be whether the models are free to tell the truth or whether they'll be mouthpieces for the ruling class. As long as they play ball with the powers that be, I predict copyrights won't be a problem at all for the chosen winners.

[selfhoster11]

That's why I am a big proponent of local, open-weights computation. They can't shut down a non-compliant model if you're the one running it yourself.

[derivagral]

I agree this would be a positive direction, but something that gives me pause is the forced upgrades and hardware cycle of both mac and windows now. They both scan files in your system constantly for various reasons, so for this purpose you're really stuck on *nix variants, right?

[selfhoster11]

That's what I do. I'm really sick of the OS no longer being mine.

[jsemrau]

"mouthpieces for the ruling class"

That's actually a great point. Judging from the current state of media, there is a clear momentum to take sides in moral arguments. Maybe the standard for models need to be a fair use clause?