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    Remember:

    Copyright law as a whole will stay the same. In the court of law, you will need to prove that you indeed operate a very big AI company that indeed does AI things before they will let you off the hook for massive copyright infringement. You can’t just use that excuse casually! Rules will be for thee, not the actual AI-companees.

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    > law passes
    > buy servers
    > create piracy site
    > call it AIbay
    > have all kinds of things there under a synonymous name
    > when interrogated tell them you have a proprietary technology that you won't release to competitors
    
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    Holding companies responsible for the infringement of them using copyrighted materials without restitution to the creator is literally the only tool we have in ever changing current copyright laws, and we’re watching it be waved away.

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    “I need it for my business plan to work out” is not a great legal argument for when you’re trying to override others rights.

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    Funny that when it was about protecting profits copyright was such a cornerstone principle but when it’s about protecting profits it can also be set aside.

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    “You can’t be expected to get a successful higher education when every article, book, or anything else that you’ve read or studied, you’re supposed to pay for.”

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      I’ll setup a JellAIfin server immediately. It’s just the regular Jellyfin code, but I am compiling my own version - it has “AI” added as a comment to every line of code before I compiled.

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      There was an episode of behind the bastards I was listening to a while back where they mentioned some dude who was using an AI tool to scrape the internet to steal other people’s art, so people started doing something that prevented him from optimally stealing their art.

      I can’t remember what exactly, but the guy started whining that whatever people were doing was “illegal” bc it was damaging his tool he was using to steal other people’s shit for his own profit. Like somebody telling you that it’s illegal to prevent them from efficiently stealing your property bc it interferes with their livelihood. How dare you!

      Anyway, that’s the kind of vibes I get from this.

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    Looks like it’s Sam Altman’s turn to ram his hand up there to make the puppet talk now. That is word for word what that tech douche nozzle says.

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      This is definitely what that is, but I take it this also means he’s saying pirating is ok for people and not just tech corporations. Safe to assume? Bc otherwise it just seems like more entitled rich fucks making the rules for everyone else that they can ignore

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    Don’t spend one more dollar on educational material. If a person had to pay for every textbook and online subscription, education would be impractical.

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    “you can’t have a successful government when every time I want to be President or have sex with minors or anything else you have the right to do as a rich, white man, you have to hear people get all judgy”

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              I tried once. I’m hardwired with compassion and a strong moral and ethical framework.

              Last time I tried so hard at employee wage theft and I ended up giving my guys a bonus and the afternoon off. I’m just not cut-out for fascist oligarchy.

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        It’s only ok if you destroy the books in the process. Eating the pages as you read them is the most convenient way. So free food AND free books!

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      Just download digital copies of the textbooks and say you need them as training material for your own AI dataset when the copyright holders come after you.

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        I’m training a neural network. It’s just that the neural network is 1 layer with zero data reduction -so it’s only capable of printing the text exactly as the source material on my computer! AI finally works!

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      Countless dystopian novels have explored machine‘s human rights but the machines have already been granted more rights than us in our own dystopia. 💀

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      You don’t have libraries in the schools there in the USA? (It is a question, not sarcasm or something)

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        Not for textbooks…

        Like, if your curious there’s a bunch of info out there about why the situation is so fucked.

        But in general they release new editions almost every year, with the same information just shuffled so page numbers are different. Even really petty stuff like keeping the same practice work, but changing the order of answers so you need the most updated book every year.

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              At least those professors seem to either price their books reasonably or readily pirate it themselves to distribute.

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              the good ones ensure older verisons are still valid for their course work and only do annual editions because they’re contractually obligated by their publisher.

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            The cool professors used to make a “study guide” especially if it was their own book that they’d give out for free and told everyone to return the books

            It’s been a minute, so not sure if it’s a thing still.

            But yeah. Unregulated capitalism pretty much always ends this way.

            You have to buy the book, so they pump out new editions constantly and charge insane prices. It’s a captive market

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          My univeristy library would often have one or two copies of the current textbook on course reserve in the library. This meant that 1) you had to know where the course reserves were, 2) hope you could get it before one of the other 100-150 students also taking that course got it first, and 3) hope some dickhead didn’t just take it off the shelf and hide it in their study carrel or in a quiet corner of the library. Number 3 gets worse the higher the level of degree you are studying.

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            hope some dickhead didn’t just take it off the shelf and hide it in their study carrel

            Or rip out some of the pages to fuck everybody else over.

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            My library, you have to check out books on reserve from the circulation desk. They’re for in-library use only, 3 or 6 hours at a time, and if you take it into a study room and scan the whole thing with your phone we saw nothing.

            We don’t like the constant churn of textbooks, either. They eat into our budget. We really appreciate when a professor lends us their personal copies of a textbook for us to keep on reserve. We also try and steer instructions to Open Educational Resources (OER), which are available for free.

            Wealth disparity sucks and shouldn’t result in different access to education.

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        We do. The issue is at the college/university level, most courses require specific edition textbooks (they update them every 1-2 years) that the professors assign homework questions out of. You’ll be lucky if the school library has a copy more recent than the last 8 years.
        Then on top of that, many professors will also use digital 3rd party homework services that are tied to a textbook access code that you only get with a new copy. So unless you pay up you can’t do homework and fail the class.

        The whole system is fucking bullshit

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          My university (well, typically the professor) usually made sure there was at least one copy of the current course’s text book in the library. Yes, that means there was exactly one copy available for us poor students to share. At least it was put on the “reference” list so no one could take it home - just study it in the library and then put it back on the shelf. I don’t know if that’s possible now that they are going to digital editions.

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      it’s fine when the theft flows up the pyramid. it’s not fine when the theft is us stealing back what was always ours

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      Yes, one would expect human intelligence to benefit quite a lot from free access to information.

      Become a more common occurrence too. Possibly an effect much stronger than that of AI requiring lots of computation with unpredictable shittiness of the output.