This is functionally a power grab to control and monopolize AI by making the AI models impossible to create with open source.
When AI models become better, the value of labor becomes less and less worth. And when AI models are controlled through copyright we can’t even open source AI locally to escape this. Because open source can’t afford the data needed to train them.
What? No, this is just basic common sense law being applied as one would expect. They literally pirated shitloads of books via torrent. That’s open and shut infringement and always has been. This doesn’t apply to scraped text data you’re licensed to access, or purchased books they digitized or purchased in digital form. It just finds that, no, you cannot torrent without license volumes and volumes of copyright protected material, even if your eventual user of it may be otherwise treated as fair use (or, imo, not at all infringing).
This is functionally a power grab to control and monopolize AI by making the AI models impossible to create with open source.
When AI models become better, the value of labor becomes less and less worth. And when AI models are controlled through copyright we can’t even open source AI locally to escape this. Because open source can’t afford the data needed to train them.
What? No, this is just basic common sense law being applied as one would expect. They literally pirated shitloads of books via torrent. That’s open and shut infringement and always has been. This doesn’t apply to scraped text data you’re licensed to access, or purchased books they digitized or purchased in digital form. It just finds that, no, you cannot torrent without license volumes and volumes of copyright protected material, even if your eventual user of it may be otherwise treated as fair use (or, imo, not at all infringing).
Laws are just rules rich people have paid for. At least most of the laws. This concerns how the future of our society looks like.
And no, this hasn’t always been like this. “Intellectual property” has only been a thing for the last 70 years or so.