Gregory's ServerYou steal from one person and you’re a thief. You steal from everyone and you’re an AI company.
Aral Balkan
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Clara Sohet 🍉J-2💕🌈
@aral You steal War Crime Proofs from the US Army, you're a walking dead. #FreeJulianAssange 
David P, PhD
A variation on "If you owe the bank a million dollars, the bank owns you. If you owe the bank a billion dollars, you own the bank." Adjust for inflation.
putney
They hang the man and flog the woman (Union songs)
Metafrastis
@panopticon @aral Of course he did. He is probably single-handedly responsible for many, many artists who lost their job because they couldn’t adapt to the new art styles Picasso created by taking their art and changing it.
panopticon
@dgavin @panopticon @aral I never heard of this. But it is hard to quantize "Lost Opportunity".
Aral Balkan
@dgavin Funny, I hadn’t realised trillion-dollar corporations were artists. Then again, I guess it’s called being a con artist for a reason.
Metafrastis
@aral since the 17th century "artists" is used for "one skilled in any art or craft" (including professors, surgeons, craftsmen, cooks).
Aral Balkan
@dgavin Undercomplex – is that anything like simple? Because trillion-dollar corporations and billionaires doing whatever they like with the labour of others is a very simple concept and that’s exactly what’s happening here.
Metafrastis
@aral 1st no plural: there is only one trillion dollar company in the world profiting from AI trained on stolen IP: Microsoft. And I dislike them as much as anyone else.
Georg Krammer
@aral I remember the good old times when the same companies sued everyone and everything for #copyright infringements.
Captain Janegay 🫖
@aral The law locks up the man or woman, |
@aral those AI companies are taking piracy to a whole new level. And they're getting away with it.