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Paul McCartney and Dua Lipa urge UK Prime Minister to rethink his AI copyright plans. A new law could soon allow AI companies to use copyrighted material without permission. (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] deathbird@mander.xyz 52 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I mean honestly this AI era is the time for these absurd anti-piracy penalties to be enforced. Meta downloads libgen? $250,000 per book plus jail time to the person who's responsible.

Oh but laws aren't for the rich and powerful you see!

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[–] HighFructoseLowStand@lemm.ee 25 points 2 days ago (27 children)

What is the actual justification for this? Everyone has to pay for this except for AI companies, so AI can continue to develop into a universally regarded negative?

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[–] deathbird@mander.xyz 40 points 2 days ago

Normal people pirate: one hundred bazillion dollars fine for download The Hangover.

One hundred bazillion dollars company pirate: special law to say it okay because poor company no can exist without pirate 😞

[–] arararagi@ani.social 46 points 2 days ago (11 children)

If AI companies can pirate, so can individuals.

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 53 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You know I am somewhat of a large language model myself.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago

At this rate we will get access to more rights if we can figure out a way to legally classify ourselves as AI.

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[–] Takios@discuss.tchncs.de 76 points 2 days ago (4 children)

hello yes I'm an ai company. let me torrent all the things pls thank you

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 40 points 2 days ago (3 children)

That's exactly what Meta did, they torrented the full libgen database of books.

If they can do it, anybody should be able to do it.

[–] golden_zealot@lemmy.ml 29 points 2 days ago (9 children)

I like how their whole excuse to that was "WE DIDN'T SEED ANY OF IT BACK THOUGH" which arguably makes it even worse lol.

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