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   K. Ryabitsev ???? (monsieuricon@social.kernel.org)'s status on Friday, 11-Oct-2024 01:16:08 JST K. Ryabitsev ????
   OpenAI is the new Napster.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 11-Oct-2024 01:16:08 JST 翠星石

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     @monsieuricon It isn't.
     
     If I'm remembering the right file sharing client (I could have remember the wrong one - please verify that any derivative of Napster is free software before using it), Napster was mostly free software (if it was free, I reckon it was more free percentage wise than Linux), that people used to share music with each other, just to be nice, in a way that didn't restrict the music, that was also non-commercial.
     
     When a court ordered Napster Inc to make Napster non-functional, they shut down the server, but it appears that people proceeding to take the mostly free Napster source code and make it free software and also implemented a free server for it.
     
     
     Meanwhile, "open"AI is completely different - it's a commercial enterprise that wastes bandwidth by scraping with impunity, that reads in free software, free texts and other free work, as well as proprietary, but publicly available works, for the sole reason of proprietizing those works and making snippets of them (combined and non-combined) available behind non-publicly available SaaSS that also requires running proprietary JavaScript and payment to access.