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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Feb-2024 17:27:35 JST Aral Balkan

   You steal from one person and you’re a thief. You steal from everyone and you’re an AI company.

   #ai

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Feb-2024 19:01:11 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Metafrastis

     @dgavin Funny, I hadn’t realised trillion-dollar corporations were artists. Then again, I guess it is called a con artist so…

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     Metafrastis (dgavin@mastodon.online)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Feb-2024 19:01:12 JST Metafrastis

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     @aral Good artists copy, great artists steal (Pablo Picasso) #everythingisaremix

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Feb-2024 19:02:32 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Georg Krammer

     @GeorgKrammer I know, right?

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     Georg Krammer (georgkrammer@fediscience.org)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Feb-2024 19:02:33 JST Georg Krammer

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     @aral I remember the good old times when the same companies sued everyone and everything for #copyright infringements.

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Feb-2024 19:04:44 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Diego :Ryyca:

     @diegodru It’s not piracy when the government does it… we call that the navy.

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     Diego :Ryyca: (diegodru@ursal.zone)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Feb-2024 19:04:46 JST Diego :Ryyca:

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     @aral those AI companies are taking piracy to a whole new level. And they're getting away with it.

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Feb-2024 19:18:13 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Metafrastis

     @dgavin Undercomplex – is that anything like simple? Because trillion-dollar corporations and billionaires doing whatever they like with the labour of others is a very simple concept and that’s exactly what’s happening here.

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     Metafrastis (dgavin@mastodon.online)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Feb-2024 19:18:14 JST Metafrastis

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     @aral since the 17th century "artists" is used for "one skilled in any art or craft" (including professors, surgeons, craftsmen, cooks).
     I‘d argue that software engineers are artists too. AI models are not created by some abstract "trillion dollar companies" but by humans. Your class struggle rethoric is undercomplex and not helpful here (and I‘m saying this as a left social democrat).