Kyle Memoir 🍉🐧4d ago

AI, what does 'hypocrisy' mean?

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https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/03/hypocrisy-ai-industry/686477/?gift=rMst1BY9gP1HWgkOEVmAK_pbvSf6lI_dTpOBwnyhuSc&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

The Hypocrisy at the Heart of the AI Industry

Tech companies believe in intellectual property, but not yours.

The Atlantic
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@f800gecko @pluralistic

Reisner is circling without quite landing on it .. is that the IP maximalism Bill Gates helped establish is now being selectively weaponized.

The software industry built an enormous legal and cultural apparatus to protect software, then turned around and said "actually, your creative work is a freely flowing natural resource we can train on."

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Show threadtuban_muzuru4d ago

@f800gecko @pluralistic

Which creates a fascinating problem for copyright: what law actually protects is a specific encoding.

But the information those words convey, in Shannon's sense, flows freely the moment it is received. You cannot un-reduce someone's uncertainty.

I have signed a bunch of NDAs. They always amused me: you're being asked to legally constrain a cognitive state — something that happened in your nervous system.

The contract is fighting physics.

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