[thisOtterBeGood]

This perfectly describes one of the biggest dillema with AI. Where does an AI company stop to utilize human knowledge it does not actually own. Where do they draw the line. Apparently it's possible there aren't any lines drawn at all.

[sneak]

You can’t own knowledge. Intellectual property is a legal fiction invented to prop up industries.

You can no more own knowledge or information than you can own the number 2.

[AvAn12]

So Anthropic should have no property rights to its own source code?

[wolvesechoes]

Property itself is a legal fiction. Every other right you enjoy is a legal fiction.

So what?

[sneak]

> Property itself is a legal fiction.

Maybe real property (which only exists because of a property record held in a government building), but it is self-evident to me (and, I believe, most people) that personal property is a natural right.

One only need look up some TikTok videos of Americans getting pickpocketed in Europe to see how large groups of people feel on the matter.

[mitthrowaway2]

But you won't feel the same way about a pickpocket who borrows the source code to the software you derive your livelihood from, your sales team's customer list, your would-be-bestselling novel manuscript, your company's secret formula for a rust-proof coating, or that scientific paper that you and your grad students have spent all summer getting ready to submit for publication?

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