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Yes but an alternate view of the copyright is that a person get a degree in English literature and carefully reads all of Shakespeare's writing, and then goes o
by justrealist 4y ago
Yes but an alternate view of the copyright is that a person get a degree in English literature and carefully reads all of Shakespeare's writing, and then goes onto write a screenplay which thematically derives from Hamlet.
Obviously you get the Shakespeare influence, but the bar on copyright infringement is very high for a reason — we don't want to sue artists for being influenced by another writer.
- bugglebeetle 4y agoI don’t really care about the copyright argument as it relates to human learning because I think this is all a Napster-style false flag by capital owners to enclose ALL data on the internet. The intent isn’t to argue about these models from first principles such that we all have IP-restriction free access from them. It’s to make them do enough legally gray things at scale that they get restricted to only a few power players.
- larry_ralph_ 4y ago[flagged]
- bugglebeetle 4y agoI made a reasonable argument: the intent with Stable Diffusion is to do the same thing that many startups have done, i.e. break the law enough that you establish a dominant market position/raise a ton of money, but create enough externalities that the state has to intervene. Then, bribe politicians to legalize your former law breaking and to lock out any of your competitors. This is what myriad companies in the gig economy have done, for example. Instead of reflexively spewing a series of ideological non-sequiturs, perhaps engage with what I actually said.
- larry_ralph_ 4y ago[flagged]
- bugglebeetle 4y agoIt seems as if I live more in the “real world” than your fantasies about how the world of business actually operates: https://theguardian.com/news/2022/jul/10/uber-files-leak-reveals-global-lobbying-campaign https://theguardian.com/news/2022/jul/10/uber-files-leak-rev... Oh, but of course, only if I set aside the “kool-aid” of citing the examples of the dominant startup players of the past decade. Perhaps you should, again, grow beyond your ideological name-calling to a rational engagement with the world, which actually involves everything I’ve described.
- larry_ralph_ 4y agoI did a word search of the linked article you posted, and I didn't see a single incidence of the words 'bribe' or 'bribery' in it. Or are you claiming that the word "lobby" in the phrase "attempts to lobby Joe Biden, Olaf Scholz and George Osborne" actually meant 'bribe'? And despite you frantically scouring Google for something to backup your 'bribery' claims with, the above article ended up being the only thing you could find. So basically, you essentially spent your own time to prove my point. Thanks. I'll repeat again what I told you earlier: grow up and stop gorging yourself on conspiracy theories. Signing off!
- bugglebeetle 4y ago[flagged]
- justrealist 4y ago> understood as bribery and largely illegal in every country beside the U.S Do you genuinely believe this?
- bugglebeetle 4y agoDo I genuinely believe that startups funneling millions of dollars to politicians in campaign donations, speaking fees, and giving them plush gigs when they leave office is a legalized form of bribery? Yes. Is most of this illegal in other developed democracies? Yes. I feel like after the whole SBF fiasco this should all be quite obvious…