• 5paceThunder@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    If openai gets to use copyrighted content for free, then so should every one else.

    If that happens, no point making anything, since your stuff will get stolen anyway

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      2 months ago

      I’m okay with it if they do some kind of open source GPL style license for the copyrighted material, like you can use all the material in the world to train your model, but you can’t sell your model for money if it was trained on copyrighted material.

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          2 months ago

          To clarify, you can sell GPL licensed programs but any GPL licensed software us inherently worth 0$, because the first person that buys it is now able to give it away for free.

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                2 months ago

                Donation, patronage, gift economy, mutual aid, or whatever you want to call it is fine by me. People can pirate a lot of proprietary software as well, yet people still pay.

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                  2 months ago

                  Piracy has clear downsides with proprietary software in most cases. Lack of updates and support are big ones. Also its considered moral to pay for your software.

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      2 months ago

      If that happens, no point making anything, since your stuff will get stolen anyway

      From a capitalist’s point of view, yes, but we need a society that enables people to act from other incentives than making money. And there are plenty of other reasons to make things.

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      2 months ago

      Yes, people turned a blind eye towards OpenAI because they were supposedly an “open” non-profit company working towards the benefit of humanity. They got tons of top talent and investment because of this. The crazy part is that they knew they weren’t gonna keep it non-profit based on the internal chat revealed in Elon Musk’s lawsuit. They duped the whole world and now just trying to make as much money as possible.

      In my opinion, if they were to release these models openly and everyone had equal opportunity to benefit from their research (just like the previous research their current stuff is based on), they could be excused but this for-profit business model is the main problem.

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      2 months ago

      Everyone else does. Name one thing you have to pay for to view on the internet…lmfao

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      2 months ago

      There is a lot of people still buying official merchandising from bands and anime etc, and subscribing to patreon and similar Mecenazgo channels (translate the spanish wiki article, because weirdly the english one does not have a version of this basic topic), even if they can just pirate the music and buy cheaper knockoffs (or just buy normal waterbottles instead). I think art will still get make through that, and because artistic vocation will still exist. Stuff where material scarcity still exists will continue to get sold of course, since making infinite anime furry porn movies in chat gpt will not feed your belly.

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      2 months ago

      Pay me upfront to make it, subscribe to my patron. If you need my intellectual property to be guaranteed then pay me for a SLA support contract.

      Otherwise everything I make is out some other interest and your benifit is just an unintended consequence or because of some charitable notion on my part.

      Its crazy how much of the world is actually just this and not some nebulas notion on artificial scarcity of the idea of the things (IP).

      Trademark would arguably be uneffected though since that has more to do with fraud protections.