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And specifically "a strategy that enables some information related business models at the expense of others." Of course if you phrase it in general abstraction
by nicklecompte 3y ago
And specifically "a strategy that enables some information related business models at the expense of others."
Of course if you phrase it in general abstractions, copyright sounds like arbitrary regulatory capture. But if you say "Copyright is a monetization strategy that enables business models which produce novel ideas at the expense of business models which repackage existing ideas" then as a matter of public policy this makes a lot of sense! Novel ideas are far more rare than repackaged existing ideas, and generally much more valuable. Governments should build a regulatory structure that incentivizes the former over the latter.
People rely on pointless abstractions like "monetization strategy" when the actual facts of the case are unflattering to their ideological/financial priors. "GPT-4 blatantly plagiarizes from the New York Times" is extremely unflattering to AI evangelists and entrepreneurs, so it's easier to go with "OpenAI has a different information business model than the New York Times."