Aaron Schwartz’s prosecution was always bullshit. RIP.

Precedent that copyright is not legally enforceable

Peak capitalism, steal everything from the masses, remix and regurgitate it so no one is the wiser, then sell it back to them via a subscription model.

Makes me sick.

Rules for thee, not for me.

Pirating anything isn't illegal anymore. If the government can pick and choose people and groups who don't have to pay for patent or copyright, then there are no patents or copyrights.

This just in... I think I'm going to start training my own LLM on various movies, TV shows, and music. US government said it was ok.

which technically makes piracy legal because that's the gov endorsing piracy

So it's eminent domain on other people's copyrighted content?

Gotta keep funneling money to those billionaires.

Trump’s government siding with OpenAI is peak MAGA economics: copyright is sacred until Silicon Valley needs millions of other people’s books, articles and art for free. Then suddenly property rights become an annoying obstacle to »winning the AI race.« Apparently America First now means AI companies first, creators somewhere near last.

There's not just a desperation for Skynet by US government, like protecting oil from EVs/renewables, this is also about creating new oligarchs to fund electoral results that oppress Americans/humanity.

To my understanding, and excuse me if I‘m wrong because I‘m not a lawyer but that‘s not what the fucking law says? You either uphold copyright law or abandon it. There is no middle way and if courts disagree with you, your stance doesn‘t really matter here.

That is awesome, anyone can train an AI model and use copyrighted materials. So this is the end of IP laws?

Chinese models like Kimi are already competing head-to-head with Claude Opus in term of capability. And the main reason that kimi isn't as widely used as Claude is because Chinese companies aren't burning investors money to keep subscription prices low. I wonder how long will this dominance can last. Since investor money will eventually run out. and once that happens, what plans do they have to keep competing with free open weight models that already closed the gap.

Then I’ll continue to pirate everything

It is crazy music samples have stronger laws for commercial usage than AI.

A follow up question, please:

Q: So, what is illegal for an AI firm to do?

"Retain"? What in the actual fuck are you talking about? You surrendered that ages ago.

So... pay for it? It's not like the money isn't there

But you don't get to enjoy copyrighted materiel yourself

Remember that it's always morally acceptable to break in and destroy AI data centers. The only ones harmed are not people.

Firmly an example of capitalism cannibalism themselves.

It may not abolish copyright but it is causing cracks.

Copyright was always a scam, non personal information should be free. Multiple people can have the same good idea, walling of access to a good idea behind capital blocks human progress.

Before anyone says something, yes artists deserve to eat… just like everyone else. Being economically productive should not be a condition for that. Make your art for fun and enjoy the honor of being copied with a sidedish of UBI.

Bro we lost global leadership in AI so what are you saying

I am pirating this book to train AI (Actual Intelligence).

I am okay with that. As long we are consistent with the copyright law. If OpenAI can break copyright to make their own money, it should be legal to me too.

Laws should be the same for everyone and no one should be above the law

Where's all the people shouting how awesome capitalism is, private ownership, the communists will come steal everything from you.

Here come capitalists to steal everything you own so they can make more money. Copyright, shmopyright. They've also got eminent domain on their side to build walls and data centers

So literally the Chinese approach to copyright and IP law.

From me just looking at it, everything they're trying to do to force US AI supremacy seems to just generate and cause even more pushback. Ban cards to China? China's ramping up GPU supplying and separating from US dominated supply chains. Ban model exports? They'll make cheaper and easier models. Idk, whenever you force the market it usually backfires in ways you can't expect.

Of course they did