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I deeply disagree. Copyright is far more important than genAI is. Copyright makes it reasonable for people to publish things publicly. Without it, far less stuf

• CamperBob2 1y ago
  There's no point making stuff public if the public doesn't benefit, though. Good example: a neighbor and I are negotiating to move our property boundaries. I used AI just this morning to handle some geometric calculations and what-if scenarios that would otherwise have taken days of back-and-forth interaction with the surveyor (who will of course still be needed to verify and certify the results.) Saved everyone concerned a lot of time and effort. This was possible because everything from surveying textbooks to math tutorials to Python code was ganked wholesale by OpenAI. Without asking anyone's permission first... which would, of course, have been summarily denied. Would I be better off if I had been forced to study surveying, Python, and geodesic math myself? I don't think so. Or to pay the survey company to answer a lot of naive questions, which is not where they add the most value? I don't think so. And is there any value in letting private entities hold a government-sanctioned monopoly on the training material used by the AI? Again: I don't think so. Copyright is not a natural right. It's something we pulled out of our asses, very recently at that. It can just as easily go back where it came from. AI will better serve us all, at the end of the day. (Yeah, yeah, I know, it's a cookbook...)