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Why do people who hate IP laws/copyright think we should be allowing AI companies to copy the whole internet when pirates still get arrested for piracy? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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Do they think the hands-off treatment that giant corporations that basically print money get is going to somehow "trickle down" to them, too?

Because last I checked, the guys who ran Jetflicks are facing jail time. Like, potentially longer jail time than most murder sentences.

...but letting OpenAI essentially do the same without consequences will mean Open Source AI people will somehow get the same hands-off treatment? That just reeks of bullshit to me.

I just don't fucking buy it and letting massive corporations just skirt IP laws while everyone else gets fucked hard by those same IP laws just doesn't seem like the best hill to die on, yet plenty of people who are anti-copyright/anti-IP laws are dying on this fucking hill.

What gives?

I am personally of the opinion that current IP/copyright laws are draconian, but that IP/copyright isn't inherently a bad thing. I just know, based on previous history in the US, that letting the Big Guys skirt laws almost never leads to Little Guys getting similar treatment.

Also, I hope this is an okay place for this rant. Thanks for keeping this space awesome. Please remove if this is inappropriate for this forum, please and thank you.

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[+] Mango@lemmy.world -8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Nobody thinks that. We're way more irrational than that. We hate copyright because of the copyright trolling and companies using leverage instead of trading value. We want the pirates freed, and we wanna get rid of the AI people so our little sisters can keep their income selling their shitty furry porn commissions. Real art isn't going anywhere. It's the low-medium skill stuff that's completely invalidated.

[–] self@awful.systems 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

you’re wrong but that’s so obvious it’s boring

but that weird bit of anti-furry shit you slipped in here looked significantly more interesting! and hey, what’s this in a thread about republicans doing anti-LGBT+ shit during pride:

If you house the fascists and bigots, you become a house of fascists and bigots. It doesn’t matter what the individual believes if they continue to give audience to those people. They become indistinguishable from them.

And when you’re just a normal straight person who gets the willies when gay people hit on you, fuck you right?

Normal straight dude here. I can’t tell you how crazy often I have gay dudes creeping their way into my life just to eventually say they’re trying to get in my pants.

bonus post: here’s you in a thread about a nude deepfake made of a 15 year old girl without her consent:

Eve seen a deep fake nude of someone ugly? People make them because they wanna see you naked. Can’t see how that’s an insult.

so, ah, there’s that. fuck off now.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

"Look, I’m not a hateful person or anything–I believe we should all live and let live. But lately, I’ve been having a real problem with these homosexuals. You see, just about wherever I go these days, one of them approaches me and starts sucking my cock."

[–] self@awful.systems 5 points 4 months ago

an evergreen classic