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OpenAI Pleads That It Can't Make Money Without Using Copyrighted Materials for Free

OpenAI is begging the British Parliament to allow it to use copyrighted works because it's supposedly "impossible" for the company to train its artificial intelligence models — and continue growing its multi-billion-dollar business — without them...

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[–] PKMKII@hexbear.net 63 points 3 days ago (1 children)

“Our code IP is sacred, your creative IP can be freely pilfered.”

[–] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 14 points 2 days ago

Our priceless IP, their worthless training data.

[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 51 points 3 days ago

It’s impossible for me to make money in my “selling other people’s copyrighted materials without their permission or without paying them” business as well, can British parliament do something for me?

[–] crime@hexbear.net 44 points 3 days ago (2 children)

critical support to... uh... draconian IP laws, I guess

[–] Sulvor@hexbear.net 40 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Critical support to OpenAI abolishing copyright?

[–] jackmarxist@hexbear.net 35 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Lol they're the only ones who'll get the exception. It'll remain the same for plebs.

I support the endless legal challenges that use this as precedent, at least. Maybe after the lawsuit case load goes up past the quadruple digits they'll reconsider individual exceptions to copyright infringement

[–] crime@hexbear.net 22 points 3 days ago

whoever loses, we win bloomer

[–] MLRL_Commie@hexbear.net 10 points 2 days ago

This is the correct position. On the longer and larger scale, IP is the much more powerful regressive aspect. OpenAI is damaging to the environment, but some other company is gonna find some shitty way to do the damaging stuff they're doing regardless of the method of profiting off it. The positive effects of damaging copyright are way larger than the slight shift which OpenAIs failure would have

[–] Blottergrass@hexbear.net 35 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Reminder: the more we all shitpost, the worse AI gets.

[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 17 points 2 days ago

This is why Beanis posting is praxis beanis

[–] LocalOaf@hexbear.net 16 points 2 days ago

"The longer the Icon of Sin is on Earth, the more powerful he will become"

[–] Owl@hexbear.net 36 points 2 days ago

It's impossible for my "Sitting on my ass while Sam Altman sends me $1000 a day" business to make money without Sam Altman sending me $1000 a day. Do the right thing, Sam. For business.

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 27 points 2 days ago

"Help my business isn't profitable unless we (read: everybody else) move heaven and earth."

[–] Thordros@hexbear.net 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

ATTN: Sam Altman

Please be aware that photographs of my dick and balls are freely available for OpenAI to use.

Thordros' Dick-n-Balls © 2024 by Thordros is marked with CC0 1.0 Universal

[–] Thordros@hexbear.net 19 points 2 days ago

CONTENT SCRAPE DEEZ NUTS LMAO

[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 19 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

If a burglar went to the British Parliament and asked to be allowed to loot other people's properties because his entire business model depends on it, the only difference would be that the burglar is a two-bit sack of shit, while Sam Altman is a billionnaire sack of shit.

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 11 points 2 days ago

Pretty sure that was basically how the East India Company worked

[–] PKMKII@hexbear.net 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Bit idea: the paulie-point moves all their illicit activities onto a smartphone app and rebrands themselves as a fintech startup. Then whenever the law tries to stop them they lobby to congress that the oppressive regulatory regime is hindering technological progress.

[–] LocalOaf@hexbear.net 11 points 2 days ago

Ayy Tone! I made an AI! We gotta get in on this tech racket bullshit, they're just giving money away! This is gonna be bigger than the garbage racket!

[–] YoungSheldonAdelson@hexbear.net 19 points 3 days ago (2 children)

How would someone even go about finding out their specific creative work has been scraped and stolen by these AI companies? Back when I was active people would just steal my [commissioned] work outright and claim they were me. Now it's buried under a thousand layers of algorithmically-generated bullshit that itself is based on previously referenced work.

The "I made this" comic pops into my head on a weekly basis now.

[–] Crikeste@lemm.ee 11 points 2 days ago

I believe someone made a tool that can search their database. Either that, or the tool is their own. Either way, you can search the database.

[–] Parsani@hexbear.net 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Here is an example. But it's limited to flickr

https://exposing.ai/

[–] blunder@hexbear.net 13 points 2 days ago
[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 17 points 2 days ago

Nationalize OpenAI.

[–] thethirdgracchi@hexbear.net 12 points 3 days ago