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AI overall is the ultimate piracy crime. I wonder what a token cost would be if AI companies were to pay royalties to every author who made their business even
by sedan_baklazhan 18d ago
AI overall is the ultimate piracy crime.
I wonder what a token cost would be if AI companies were to pay royalties to every author who made their business even possible.
- logicchains 18d agoThen let's make humans pay royalties to every author from whom they ever learned something, even if it was offered freely to them, only fair?
- sedan_baklazhan 18d agoIndeed. If I take somebody's work, transform it somewhat and sell it, I should pay royalties (unless the author explicitly allowed me to do so). That is exactly the case.
- KingMob 18d agoSadly, they're just following in the footsteps of every large media/publishing/music conglomerate that already screwed over the vast majority of artists/musicians/writers. For every Taylor Swift striking it rich, there's 999,999 who can't even pay their bills with what their copyright gets them. I don't always agree with Doctorow, but he's written a lot of good stuff on how stronger copyright won't help broke artists. Even just today, it turns out: https://pluralistic.net/2026/08/18/enron-corpus/#sign-here https://pluralistic.net/2026/08/18/enron-corpus/#sign-here
- sedan_baklazhan 18d agoIt is not just about artists. It is about every kind of intellectual work: scientific research, essay, fiction, painting, software, etc - the list goes on..