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Rules for thee, not for me.
I thought copyright and patent laws were supposed to protect the little guy? Looks like as soon as they protect the little guy from big business, they stop mattering.
It's almost like, they weren't there to protect the little guy which is why big businesses never fought back against them.
I guess the useful idiots were wrong, again. Color me not-surprised.
Also Clegg
asking women for permission would ruin my sexlife.
probably.
AI is not just limited to these overhyped plagiarism machines. Will consent laws kill vision systems? Will they kill classifiers? Will they kill gradient descent? No, they won't.
So?
Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow? No, says the man on Wall Street; it belongs to the shareholders.
Is a man not entitled to the sweat of ALL the brows?
If I had a gun with 3 bullets and I was in a room with Meta, Hitler and Bin Laden. I would shoot Meta thrice.
I would shoot hitler twice, then bin laden, then beat meta to death with the gun because it would hurt more.
If an industry can't survive without resorting to copyright theft then maybe it's not a viable business.
Imagine the business that could exist if only they didn't have to pay copyright holders. What makes the AI industry any different or more special?
I’m not a fan of intellectual property law. I’m down to abandon it, once we establish an artist stipend to pay a regular salary for artists to live a life of dignity.
Maybe introduce a tax on AI to pay for it.
yeah a 110% tax
He admit it!
Well the AI companies and investors should have understood that building an industry off of doing something questionable was risky and risks don't always work out.
Yay, kill it please.
I doubt it. With that $500 billion dollar grant, you can hire people to make art to train on. That's a LOT of money.
Ah, if it isn’t my old friend Mr. Nick Clegg, with a dick for a face and an ass for a head!
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It’s implausible that I would pay for Netflix, Disney+, Paramount+, etc.
When I can just build a server and buy a VPN connection.
Ha... He was the Lib Dem poster boy for a good decade. And they're something akin to pro-business libertarians. I wonder what Lib Dem Dep PM Clegg would have said to this!
He was the poster boy because he managed to rise to the rank of completely irrelevant, the highest level of office any lib dem has ever achieved.
Fine then, kill it.
file under: “unsurprising capitalist takes”
Come on Disney! Use your god tier copyright lawyers and stop this AI shit for good.
Well let's hope it will.
