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   pettter (pettter@mastodon.acc.umu.se)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Mar-2023 03:19:25 JST pettter

   Copyright is now more than ever, and to an even greater extent than other legal concepts, something that only applies in on direction between rich and poor. You will never ever in a million years win a copyright suit against Google, OpenAI, MidJourney, Facebook, or any of the other giants.

   And meanwhile any unauthorized use of movies and music from the fucking 30s is still illegal.

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     Unattributed 👤 ☑ (unatributed@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Mar-2023 05:07:10 JST Unattributed 👤 ☑

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     • Cairo Braga [toot]

     @pettter
     @cairobraga

     And it's worse because corporations are using copyright and similar bodies of law to steal information from many of our cultures. And media corporations are using copyright to keep information from people, using it to keep information from passing to the public domain where it would benefit everyone.

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     Tröglödÿt (troglodyt@mastodon.nu)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Mar-2023 05:34:27 JST Tröglödÿt

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     @pettter i suspect that the current language model rush in part is caused by matthew butterick's co pilot litigation. the behemoths wants to convince everyone, in particular the public, that these shitty parrots are inevitable and amazing

     in other words, i think this hype is driven by fear of losing in court

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     pettter (pettter@mastodon.acc.umu.se)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Mar-2023 05:34:55 JST pettter

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     • Tröglödÿt

     @troglodyt quite possibly that's part of the motivation yeah, though as you say there's of course a lot of other stuff going on as well.