nixCraft 🐧Tech companies believe in intellectual property, but not yours.
The Hypocrisy at the Heart of the AI Industry https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/03/hypocrisy-ai-industry/686477/
BussphometWell they are about to learn this the hard way then.
Since AI generation can't be copyrighted
And the ship is sinking.
Jeff Atwood@nixCraft alternatively, "copyright all the things and make a byzantine 'rights' system like the hellscape that is music licensing" is ALSO not the way. Information should be accessible to all. Aaron Swartz died for this and y'know what? I will too, if that's what it takes. Sorry not sorry.
Ismael Olea@codinghorror @nixCraft Jeff, as you know, there is an enormous gigantic dissymmetry between common openness fighters and absurdly financed tech giants, so it's unfair that copyright can be enforced to social activists (like individuals, OSS projects...) but not to mega corps because just piles of money. It's not byzantine to fight for an equal system and same opportunities for persons and companies.
@codinghorror @nixCraft We all want information accesible not for the information itself but because it's an empowerment tool.
@codinghorror @nixCraft The reason for the invention of the free/libre/open source licensing is to make this empowerment possible also for software, a then now «form of information». This licensing schema respects the Bern Convention, which is the default for almost all the planet, and applies for all legal actors.
@codinghorror @nixCraft now we have a another new «form of information», the AI models, and their openness rules should be over the Bern Convention, with an strong and equal legal system and not for capitalist giants only.
@codinghorror @nixCraft If we let the capitalists giants rule by their power. what can be now be open tomorrow will be closed, as capitalist always do with knowledge as soon they find they can maximize earnings.
@codinghorror @nixCraft nothing new for seasoned persons as we are :-/
@olea @nixCraft I am very much aware that life is not fair. Which is why I am doing everything that I am doing. Read up on if you like. Or don't. It really doesn't matter either way, because I have to do what is right for all of us. https://blog.codinghorror.com/launching-the-rural-guaranteed-minimum-income-initiative/
Launching The Rural Guaranteed Minimum Income Initiative
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@codinghorror @nixCraft and you are a gentleman and a reference figure for many of us.
Court Cantrell does not comply@olea @codinghorror @nixCraft I don't want companies and people to have the same rights. I want people to have *more* rights, and companies very few.
artlog@codinghorror @nixCraft
Hoping this is an hyperbole. If you really plan , please don't, being dead has the sad effect of not being able to argue here anymore... And that would be... terrible.
Hoping this is an hyperbole. If you really plan , please don't, being dead has the sad effect of not being able to argue here anymore... And that would be... terrible.
Lord Caramac the Clueless, KSC@codinghorror @nixCraft I say, fuck copyright, fuck intellectual property, everything for everybody forever.
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Wayne Werner@nixCraft this is the 💩 that means I hate AI
Sassinake!all your brains are belong to us.
Thinkb4u@nixCraft I don't believe in intellectual property. Every piece of music I made and uploaded to the Internet, every piece of art, every bit of Pascal, Java, and Python code, every text, is free for everybody to copy and modify and use in whatever manner they like, including as AI training data. However, I think every single AI model, every piece of software surrounding those models, and everything generated by AI, should be in the public domain.
FossThought@nixCraft "We should have access to your stuff, but you can't have access to ours."
In a way, open source software is also the most headache-free. You don't have to pay lawyers to guard something that's out in the open...
In a way, open source software is also the most headache-free. You don't have to pay lawyers to guard something that's out in the open...