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OpenAI Pleads That It Can’t Make Money Without Using Copyrighted Materials for Free
OpenAI is begging the British Parliament to allow it to use copyrighted works because it’s supposedly “impossible” for the company to train its artificial intelligence models — and continue growing its multi-billion-dollar business — without them…
critical support to… uh… draconian IP laws, I guess
Critical support to OpenAI abolishing copyright?
Lol they’re the only ones who’ll get the exception. It’ll remain the same for plebs.
I support the endless legal challenges that use this as precedent, at least. Maybe after the lawsuit case load goes up past the quadruple digits they’ll reconsider individual exceptions to copyright infringement
whoever loses, we win
This is the correct position. On the longer and larger scale, IP is the much more powerful regressive aspect. OpenAI is damaging to the environment, but some other company is gonna find some shitty way to do the damaging stuff they’re doing regardless of the method of profiting off it. The positive effects of damaging copyright are way larger than the slight shift which OpenAIs failure would have