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Nothing AI is free. Unless there's a chain of custody for all of the training data, it's still unethical even if it's used for a good thing. If I build a wheelchair ramp out of the flesh and bones of orphans I'm still not a very good person. And there are non-AI ways to accomplish this that are just as good that would require almost comically less resources.
This attitude is why Ubuntu, and only Ubuntu, recommends a minimum of 6 GB of Ram btw. You can run a full KDE system with onboard graphics and all the bells and whistles for less than 2 GB on other distros.
Comparing copyright, a bullshit concept that was designed only to protect the rich, to building with "the flesh and bones of orphans" is so extreme that it's not even worth arguing about.
Being pro-AI is the same as being pro-capitalist, and thus pro-orphan crushing machine.
Having your work stolen so that a soulless faceless corporate entity can charge teenagers to recreate it at will and pretend they have any talent or capability whatsoever is pretty shitty, and defending it is anti-proletariat.
You know you can use AI yourself too right? There's no need to be anti-AI when you can be anti-OpenAI/Anthropic/Google/etc.
Wow you mean I too can burn electricity while stealing artist's work so I can pretend to be an artist?! Wow mommy we can be homegrown douchebags these days!
This is the weirdest sort of AI bullshit I keep coming across.
And... Where are they?
Hi this must be your first time on Earth in the last decade, every single AI company has been in or is currently in no less than ten dozen lawsuits over copyright infringement. It's so bad there's at least one website purpose built to track copyright infringement from AI companies..
Without a specific chain of custody for every piece of training data going into the models, there is a default that the model cannot be trusted and is likely infringing on someone's copyright.
To specify the 'nothing AI is free" part, LLMs are grossly computationally inefficient. Whether it's local or not.
Already installed on most distros.
So where are the winning lawsuits of all that copyright infringement then?
And they are called... ?
Thomson Reuters v. Ross Intelligence
Bartz v. Anthropic
Kadrey v. Meta
UMG v Udio
Those are the settled ones so far. This is 4 years into AI existing. Lawsuits, especially copyright lawsuits, tend to take up to a decade in the US, because the US legal system is shit.
Here's 118 currently in progress. Because AI is copyright infringement.
In February 2025, the court granted summary judgment that such copying was not fair use, emphasizing that the purpose of ROSS’s copying was to build a directly competing product
The court granted summary judgment for Anthropic that training LLMs on copyrighted materials is fair use.
Judge Vince Chhabria denied plaintiffs’ motion for partial summary judgment on fair use and granted Meta’s cross-motion and granted Meta’s motion for partial summary judgment on the DMCA claim.
Settled - no judgement.
Having lawsuits is not winning lawsuits. The AI companies have been winning on fair use. Same as Google back in the 2000s when they were sued for for various search products (news, books, etc.).