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The relevant distinction isn’t being a tool it’s how it is built. If you use a bunch of copyrighted material in the design of your tool and some of the material
by TimPC 4y ago
The relevant distinction isn’t being a tool it’s how it is built. If you use a bunch of copyrighted material in the design of your tool and some of the material leaks into your answers that’s very different from building Microsoft Word.
- michaelt 4y agoThe copyright question is of course an important one. But I was thinking of the tool-vs-platform distinction in the context of the censorship question raised by Midjourney blocking images of Xi Jinping. 'Platforms' like Facebook and Github often censor things like porn, terror recruitment, and political satire fearing reputational damage and loss of advertisers from having such content on their domain, next to their logo - whereas offline tools like MS Word aren't subject to the same fears. So people who think political satire is a particularly important form of speech might prefer an offline tool for their greater censorship resistance, irrespective of their opinion on issues of copyright.