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My how fast the AI tech bros move to protect corporations but don't move to protect the average coder, artists, writers.

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[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I guess all of these AI companies buying literal tons of books is just protecting small authors. LOL!

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world -2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

What does that have to do with this article

[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)
  1. Woosh.
  2. And what does your question have to do with the article?

Also, do you have any inkling of what is used to train these LLM and generative AI models? I'm sure that these companies buying literally tons of books and then shredding them is to "protect" independent authors like good stewards of AI they are.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

Ok, so you just want to rant in general, got it.

[–] chewypoops@lemmy.world 4 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I think it's more of a criticism of you arguing that Anthropic cares about indie game developers.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago

I'm not arguing that.

I'm arguing against the lazy kneejerk reaction that this is some thing that protects only EA, etc when it seems like it'd protect smaller devs just as much. Regardless of the motivation for the policy