| ▲ | nickjj 2 hours ago | |
> Except, of course, no one has actually been robbed, the culture has not been stolen - it's still there - nor are the people involved selling it back in any form. This rhetoric sounds impressive, but really looks more like "piracy is theft" line from early 2000s, similarly flawed in basic premise. It hasn't been literally stolen but indirectly it has been. I spent 20 years working as a freelancer and 10 years selling tech video courses. I made enough to have a happy life (not a lot but enough to survive), as long as the income kept flowing every month. Nowadays I make nothing from a business I've built up for 2 decades because AI took away most traffic to my site which was the entry point to my business. I actually lose money because course sales have been impacted so heavily that I pay more for hosting than I get in sales. AI is consuming an unimaginable amount of searches which is the gateway for so many businesses. It's preventing people from being discovered on the internet. Not only that but it's taking everyone's content and selling it back to users while keeping all of the profits. | ||
| ▲ | avaer 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
> It hasn't been literally stolen but indirectly it has been. It's literally stolen IP. One minus epsilon of the corpus did not give informed consent, or get compensated. The fact that it's laundered doesn't make it any less literally stolen. | ||
| ▲ | shevy-java 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
> It hasn't been literally stolen but indirectly it has been. There actually was theft. See how some big corporations slurped data from Libgen and Anna's Archive. Where did they pay for this? See also this article: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/apr/03/meta-has-stole... And similar articles. It is theft - there is no denying in that. All these companies owe us a ton of money. But Trump protects the AI mafia so we won't get compensation for the damage they cause here. | ||