jcoglanthing is, I'm not even opposed to dismantling IP as a concept, and I'm not wild about wielding it to oppose AI, because the same argument is used to shut down the internet archive
*however* what we are currently seeing is IP being dismantled asymmetrically in favour of the wealthy. we cannot have a situation where big tech is allowed to ignore IP while people are serving prison sentences at nintendo's behest
if you take a job at a tech company they will want ownership of everything you make. if you "steal" from a big company or institution they will crush you, they have literally pushed people to their deaths over this
it is *deeply* bad taste to reduce this to "you used limewire in 1998 so you're being hypocritical"
there is a theoretical world where I would welcome the end of intellectual property, but gun control has to start with the cops
L'égrégore André ꕭꕬ@jcoglan And like every study showed that the average pirate spend a lot on buying (access to) the stuff they like, unlike corporations who won't pay even when courts order them to.
Lord Caramac the Clueless, KSC@jcoglan I absolutely love AI, always have (even when it was very, very primitive back in the 20th century), I only hate it when it's owned by big capital and locked up in proprietary software. I think all AI should be open source, free to download and to install on any suitable machine, and instead of building bigger and bigger models, we should try to make small models that can't do "everything" all at once but just enough for a small number of use cases. I don't want some huge magical blob of code running at some computing centre, I want a small model that runs on my computer at home or maybe even on a Raspberry Pi without any Internet connection.
JP@jcoglan exactly. the tricky thing about copyright is that it's a legal instrument, and capitalism tends to turn every legal system into a de facto weapon for capital to wield against anyone who opposes it / downwardly-redistributes it. strengthening copyright for corporations while weakening it for ordinary people (artists, etc) is the opposite direction anyone who genuinely wants to eventually dismantle it as a necessary institution should want to go.
Tom Morris@jcoglan people spent years unsuccessfully lobbying to make it legal to rip a CD and put it on an iPod, and pushing back against the effect of ebook DRM on accessibility… but suddenly the government wants to change copyright to benefit Google et al. Very rational to find the difference sus.
Klaus Frank@jcoglan I'd say we all should write our legislators and complain how IP-laws are putting us at an disadvantage in the market compared to big tech and demand them to remove all IP, patent, publishing, .. laws and regulations.
(They almost certainly won't just do that but that way it may get enough of their attention to actually do something against big tech for once. Also I don't think they would even listen to any non-economic/market argument to begin with.)
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