| ▲ | philipallstar 5 hours ago |
| > companies spent a long time telling us downloading single songs via Napster was the worst thing ever One's world cannot be so drawn in crayon that "companies" is a useful level of detail with something like that. There's no irony in two totally different companies (one of which was actually an industry body, the RIAA) doing two totally different things. |
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| ▲ | dbspin 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Does ones world view get upgraded to oil paint if one acknowledges that it's the same class of people - and in many cases literally the same people, PE firms and family offices - profiting from 2000s era record industry profits and on the hook for / in line to profit from Open AI, Anthropic and the rest if they IPO? |
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| ▲ | philipallstar 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | No, for obvious reasons. "acknowledging" implies it's a self-evident truth that people are just refusing to see as such, when it just isn't. Completely different companies - in fact one is the Recording Industry Association of America, an industry body that exists to protect the IP of artists for the mutual benefit of artists and publishers. While it's seductive to carve the world up into goodies and baddies, it doesn't make it true. | | |
| ▲ | TeMPOraL 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Moreover, it's the people/companies from RIAA and adjacent circles (news publishing) that are stoking the "AI training is theft" arguments that people here are so breathlessly repeating - in a twist of irony, it's the people that suddenly decided to align themselves with media/news conglomerates, the same ones that were considered scum of the Earth before ChatGPT debuted. |
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| ▲ | card_zero 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| However, there is irony in a subscription to pirated material. |
