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   nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 27-Sep-2026 20:25:42 JST nixCraft 🐧

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   Remember Aaron Swartz and the tragic fate he suffered? Remember the kids who downloaded games or MP3 files, whose parents were threatened, and in some cases, extorted for money under copyright laws? Yes, where are those copyright laws now? Why are courts and governments now giving a free pass to filthy rich OpenAI, Microsoft, Google & Anthropic? I hate everything about this dual treatments. These AI companies even have audacity to tell others their AI output is copyrighted & others can't use it

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     nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 27-Sep-2026 20:25:43 JST nixCraft 🐧

     Newly unsealed court documents from Authors Guild v. OpenAI reveal that both OpenAI and Microsoft executives knowingly trained their AI models on pirated books (including all sorts of art theft) while privately admitting that the technology threatens writers' livelihoods. Yet, OpenAI & Microsoft went ahead and released their shity AI on stolen work despite knowing it was illegal. https://authorsguild.org/news/ag-v-openai-top-execs-knew-mass-book-piracy-was-illegal/

     Stealing from small guys & pocketing billions per year is how they get filthy rich.

     nebu, Peter Krefting and GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) repeated this.