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[–] Rooskie91@discuss.online 386 points 5 days ago (23 children)

Wow so fuck college students but machines deserve free textbooks?

Fuck this society.

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 147 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Just tell your campus book store that you self-identify as AI. FREE BOOKS!

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 52 points 5 days ago (4 children)

But you aren't an oligarch of the fascist dictatorship, so you have no rights.

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[–] anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz 75 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Just download digital copies of the textbooks and say you need them as training material for your own AI dataset when the copyright holders come after you.

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[–] dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 points 5 days ago

machine learning = good
human learning = bad

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[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 38 points 4 days ago (2 children)

"I need it for my business plan to work out" is not a great legal argument for when you're trying to override others rights.

[–] javiwhite@feddit.uk 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

So what you're telling me is it's still a legal argument.

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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 35 points 4 days ago

"You can't be expected to get a successful higher education when every article, book, or anything else that you've read or studied, you're supposed to pay for."

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 27 points 4 days ago

Funny that when it was about protecting profits copyright was such a cornerstone principle but when it's about protecting profits it can also be set aside.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 20 points 3 days ago
> law passes
> buy servers
> create piracy site
> call it AIbay
> have all kinds of things there under a synonymous name
> when interrogated tell them you have a proprietary technology that you won't release to competitors
[–] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 211 points 5 days ago (2 children)

🙌 Communist Trump is making all textbooks free 🙌

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 52 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

You can't defeat the fascist mental illness with logic. Fascism is a fusion of corporation and state. The only rule of law is whatever the dictator(s) believe protects their regimes/corporations profits.

In this case, Americas big tech — of which Trump recently merged some with the military — has determined copyright laws should not apply to them, and Trump is voicing their opinion (he doesn't know how anything works).

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[–] atk007@lemmy.world 22 points 4 days ago (4 children)

So Pro Piracy argument ... So no more patents or copyrights

[–] JustARaccoon@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Not for you, silly, only if you're too rich and big!

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[–] Steve@startrek.website 149 points 5 days ago (2 children)
[–] db2@lemmy.world 69 points 5 days ago
[–] Oyml77@lemmy.today 31 points 5 days ago

You can't be expected to have a successful AI program without the release of the full text of the Epstein files (minus protection for the victims, of course).

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 11 points 3 days ago

That's right, I'm torrenting all this stuff for my AI program...

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 34 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Trying to throw whatever that sticks so people would stop talking about your pedophelia

[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 9 points 3 days ago

Remember:

Copyright law as a whole will stay the same. In the court of law, you will need to prove that you indeed operate a very big AI company that indeed does AI things before they will let you off the hook for massive copyright infringement. You can't just use that excuse casually! Rules will be for thee, not the actual AI-companees.

[–] tonytins@pawb.social 123 points 5 days ago (3 children)
[–] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 60 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Good, keep convincing them that copyright is woke. And we don't want anything woke right, wink wink

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[–] Taldan@lemmy.world 58 points 4 days ago (1 children)
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[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 54 points 4 days ago (4 children)

So why can't I read them for free too? Only massive billion dollar companies get stuff for free?

I would like to announce that I am pioneering a new AI program. Give me access to all of the movies for free please.

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[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 19 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Time to ignore all the copyright and patents for my own ~~nefarious purposes~~ AI training

[–] amikulo@slrpnk.net 11 points 4 days ago

How am I supposed to train my neural network (my own brain) to be a filmmaker if I have to pay for each piece of media I train on (watch)?

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[–] Etterra@discuss.online 54 points 4 days ago (2 children)

How about you release the Epstein files and then go outside and go fuck yourself Trump.

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[–] abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 73 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Remember kids: Copyright is only for the rich.

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[–] ieatpwns@lemmy.world 85 points 5 days ago (1 children)

So what he’s saying is the billionaires funding ai can’t afford to do it legitimately

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[–] Jeffool@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

Holding companies responsible for the infringement of them using copyrighted materials without restitution to the creator is literally the only tool we have in ever changing current copyright laws, and we're watching it be waved away.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 18 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Don't spend one more dollar on educational material. If a person had to pay for every textbook and online subscription, education would be impractical.

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[–] JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world 30 points 4 days ago

Can a human be expected to have a successful life when they have to pay for knowledge they need access to? I am not against the opinion that information should be free and freely accessible. But does this courtesy also extend to the common folk or is it exclusive to expensive machines and their owners? You wouldn’t download a United States government. da-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 41 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Hear that college students? The President just gave you permission to pirate all your textbooks.

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 47 points 5 days ago (1 children)

And that's why I have an AI training library of movies and TV stored up.

I'll get around to training an AI on it any day now, I'm sure.

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[–] fraksken@infosec.pub 68 points 5 days ago (5 children)

So, hypothetically speaking, if I pirate a bunch of stuff and I get caught, I can claim I used it to train an AI model and all charges are dropped? (According to his statement, not current applicable laws)

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[–] StowawayFog@piefed.social 28 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Won’t someone think of these POOR AI companies!

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[–] ToadOfHypnosis@lemmy.world 17 points 4 days ago

It’s amazing he can talk at all with both the dick and balls of every Nerd Reich billionaire he can find wedged into his mouth.

[–] jabjoe@feddit.uk 54 points 5 days ago (6 children)

Yep when Napster just linked people who shared files between them, it was the end of the world. So it's fine when it's bigtech / AI?

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[–] andallthat@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago

"you can't have a successful government when every time I want to be President or have sex with minors or anything else you have the right to do as a rich, white man, you have to hear people get all judgy"

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago
[–] notso@feddit.org 18 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

In a statement given during a press conference in the Oval Office, the president's stance on the topic was clear:

"I'm a big reader, some say the biggest ever. And let me tell you - when you go into a bookstore, they have books costing like insane numbers, like 100.000 Dollars each minimum. Its an absolute disgrace. You have all these authors getting billions just for putting funny little characters on paper. The democrats... They jacked up the price so much, especially under Obama together with the crooked Clintons and sleepy Joe Biden, they were all in this room when it happened, they were all together. Its a shame. They did the same thing with eggs but I brought prices down like, immediately. Immediately. So fast everybody said "Wow" Because they never saw something like that and I will do the same for these books and newspapers. But all these writers and journalists, who are all producing propaganda for the radical left by the way, they are really terrible people - they're earning trillions... I was speaking to Mr. ChatGPT the other day and he said "They're ripping us off, Mr. President it's a totally broken market, they are killing us." And I agree, it's a disgrace. A total disgrace. That's why I'll bring prices down by not only 100 % or 200 %, but probably more like 1,000 % in the next two weeks. You'll never have seen lower prices for medication, let me tell you... And books too. So there will be big price cuts. Bigly."

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[–] LordCrom@lemmy.world 23 points 4 days ago (2 children)

It took me a bit to realize this wasnt an actual quote from Trump

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"Piracy for me, not for thee."

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 38 points 5 days ago (7 children)

Settle down, nerds. TACO just read from the card they gave him. He doesn't think anything about AI. Of course, he'll make the wrong decisions and cause utter chaos and strife but it's not like he has an actual opinion about AI.

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[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 31 points 5 days ago (9 children)

We shouldn't be calling these AI programs successful. In the slightest. They're counterfeiting human thought and work.

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