• Ebby@lemmy.ssba.com
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    21 days ago

    That’s a good litmus test. If asking/paying artists to train your AI destroys your business model, maybe you’re the arsehole. ;)

    • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
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      21 days ago

      Not only that, but their business model doesn’t hold up if they were required to provide their model weights for free because the material that went into it was “free”.

      • T156@lemmy.world
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        21 days ago

        There’s also an argument that if the business was that reliant on free things to start with, then it shouldn’t be a business.

        No-one would bat their eyes if the CEO of a real estate company was sobbing that it’s the end of the rental market, because the company is no longer allowed to get houses for free.

        • NicoleFromToronto@lemmy.ca
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          21 days ago

          Businesses relying on free things. Logging, mining, ranching, and oil come to mind. Extracting free resources of the land belonging to the public, destroying those public lands and selling those resources back to the public at an exorbitant markup.

  • rainrain@sh.itjust.works
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    19 days ago

    To be fair copyright is a disease. But then so is billionaires, capitalism, business, etc.

    I mean, if there’s a war, and you shoot somebody, does that make you bad?

    Yes and no.