While AI scraping is a massive theft of labor, I think chattel slavery has this beat.

That's why they're so popular with large companies.

Legalized way to steal and sell your work

He's not wrong.

I really dont understand how the copyright laws can be so aggressive as to pursue individuals downloading songs or movies, but totally ineffectual against companies stealing huge volumes of data from all over the place, and repackaging it in LLMs etc. So bizarre.

No its really very simple. Do you have a legal department: y/n.

Quite easy. It's like my grade 5 essays which I didn't copy off Encarta, and changed a few words.

Plus, if you call it AI and add blinky words like "thinking" you can dodge it too

Yeah, it$ $uper confu$ing. I'm not really $ure why $ome can get away with it, while other$ have their live$ de$troyed for it.

I’m not sure they can be compared fairly. Slavery and AI scraping do both have “unpaid labor” in common. But “unpaid labor” is hardly the most horrific feature of either of them. And to reduce them down to that metric so they can be compared ends up downplaying the unique horrors of each.

I think the important part to take from the quote is that: he knew it was wrong, he knew the degree to which it was wrong was extreme, and he knew it was wrong in a particular way that the world hasn’t seen before.

Bastards

Pot

Kettle

Black

because that's how bourgeois democracy works. it's not really democracy, it's just the parasite class ruling the proles.

Those fuckers do read Marx, to our dismay.

Law is class power.

oh, those stupid microsoft fucks. 40 years ago, billy didn't understand what theft was either. nothing's changed.

"laws for thee but not for me"