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immibis 7 hours ago

Absolutely: if copyright is slowing down innovation, we should abolish copyright.

Not just turn a blind eye when it's the right people doing it. They don't even have a legal exemption passed by Congress - they're just straight-up breaking the law and getting away with it. Which is how America works, I suppose.

JoshTriplett 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Exactly. They rushed to violate copyright on a massive scale quickly, and now are making the argument that it shouldn't apply to them and they couldn't possibly operate in compliance with it. As long as humans don't get to ignore copyright, AI shouldn't either.

treyd 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

ChatGPT doesn't violate copyright, it's a software application. "Open"AI does, it's a company run by humans (for now).

Filligree 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Humans do get to ignore copyright, when they do the same thing OpenAI has been doing.

slyall 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Exactly.

Should I be paying a proportion of my salary to all the copyright holders of the books, song, TV shows and movies I consumed during my life?

If a Hollywood writer says she "learnt a lot about writing by watching the Simpsons" will Fox have an additional claim on her earnings?

__loam 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Yeah it turns out humans have more rights than computer programs and tech startups.

tpmoney 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> they're just straight-up breaking the law and getting away with it.

So far this has not been determined and there's plenty of reasonable arguments that they are not breaking copyright law.