> and you and the only agitators in all of this - authors' guild authors - gain nothing from nearly every dead-on-arrival framework like "Compensation, Credit a

> and you and the only agitators in all of this - authors' guild authors - gain nothing from nearly every dead-on-arrival framework like "Compensation, Credit and Consent" or whatever, BESIDES meaningless psychological satisfaction of winning social media arguments and flexing the favorability of authors over programmers The first agitators were Free Software developers, namely the Software Freedom Conservatory and Hector Martin, who pointed out that GitHub's proprietary cloud hosted code completion LLM was trained on shittons of GPL code and regurgitated a lot of it[0]. The only reason why book authors, visual artists, and so on are suing AI companies is because the Free Software people - who otherwise oppose software copyrightability - wrote the rhetorical framework that everyone else is using. [0] My favorite example is that commenting "evil floating point level bit hack" produces the entire Quake lighting function. Or at least it did until Microsoft specifically filtered that phrase out from code completion.