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By demanding the copyright our bosses love, we're seeking the right to be angry about AI, even as the AI companies and our bosses cut deals to train chatbots with our work, which they will use to attack our livelihoods.

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[-] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

initially meant to protect against corporate/capitalism over reach like this

The article makes this argument much better than I can summarize, so I really recommend reading it, but the idea is that the promise of intellectual property rights as a protection for creative workers is fundamentally flawed and is not fit for that purpose even if it seems to be on the surface, rather than being an otherwise good idea that has been corrupted by corporate influence.

[-] deliriousdreams@fedia.io 2 points 1 month ago

I'll have a look.

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