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[–] Taldan@lemmy.world 58 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 1 points 18 hours ago

More like national socialist

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 54 points 1 day ago (2 children)

How about you release the Epstein files and then go outside and go fuck yourself Trump.

[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

and then go outside and go fuck yourself Trump.

He is a big baby, so he might be into it.

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[–] Rooskie91@discuss.online 381 points 2 days ago (23 children)

Wow so fuck college students but machines deserve free textbooks?

Fuck this society.

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 143 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Just tell your campus book store that you self-identify as AI. FREE BOOKS!

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 51 points 2 days ago (4 children)

But you aren't an oligarch of the fascist dictatorship, so you have no rights.

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[–] anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz 74 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Just download digital copies of the textbooks and say you need them as training material for your own AI dataset when the copyright holders come after you.

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[–] dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 1 day ago

machine learning = good
human learning = bad

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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 41 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hear that college students? The President just gave you permission to pirate all your textbooks.

[–] hasnep@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 day ago

But only if you say you're using them to train an AI

[–] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 207 points 2 days ago (2 children)

🙌 Communist Trump is making all textbooks free 🙌

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 50 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

You can't defeat the fascist mental illness with logic. Fascism is a fusion of corporation and state. The only rule of law is whatever the dictator(s) believe protects their regimes/corporations profits.

In this case, Americas big tech — of which Trump recently merged some with the military — has determined copyright laws should not apply to them, and Trump is voicing their opinion (he doesn't know how anything works).

You can’t defeat the fascist mental illness with logic.

More generally, you can't reason people out of an opinion that they didn't reason their way into in the first place.

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[–] Shanmugha@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago

So they will bring the whole thing down, right? Right?

[–] Steve@startrek.website 147 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] db2@lemmy.world 67 points 1 day ago
[–] Oyml77@lemmy.today 31 points 1 day ago

You can't be expected to have a successful AI program without the release of the full text of the Epstein files (minus protection for the victims, of course).

[–] abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 72 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Remember kids: Copyright is only for the rich.

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 47 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And that's why I have an AI training library of movies and TV stored up.

I'll get around to training an AI on it any day now, I'm sure.

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[–] tonytins@pawb.social 121 points 2 days ago (3 children)
[–] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 59 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Good, keep convincing them that copyright is woke. And we don't want anything woke right, wink wink

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

Don’t worry, it’ll still be rules for thee, but not for me. That’s how fascism works.

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[–] Asswardbackaddict@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You can't be expected to - broadly understand the world and your place in it - when every article, book, or anything else that you've read or studied, you're supposed to pay for.

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[–] ieatpwns@lemmy.world 84 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So what he’s saying is the billionaires funding ai can’t afford to do it legitimately

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[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 14 points 1 day ago

Damn, I can't expect to enjoy my evening if I have to pay for media, therefore it should be free.

[–] fraksken@infosec.pub 67 points 2 days ago (5 children)

So, hypothetically speaking, if I pirate a bunch of stuff and I get caught, I can claim I used it to train an AI model and all charges are dropped? (According to his statement, not current applicable laws)

[–] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 31 points 2 days ago

I needed to pirate that extensive game, movie, and porn library to train a gaming, movie, and porn recomendation model

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[–] jabjoe@feddit.uk 54 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Yep when Napster just linked people who shared files between them, it was the end of the world. So it's fine when it's bigtech / AI?

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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 38 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Settle down, nerds. TACO just read from the card they gave him. He doesn't think anything about AI. Of course, he'll make the wrong decisions and cause utter chaos and strife but it's not like he has an actual opinion about AI.

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[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 31 points 1 day ago (9 children)

We shouldn't be calling these AI programs successful. In the slightest. They're counterfeiting human thought and work.

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[–] OccamsRazer@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Not sure why the knee jerk hate on this one. I like the idea of opening up academic articles and other materials for free and open use.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 66 points 1 day ago (4 children)

It's the fact that it's not free and open use to us, just to the AI trainers. At least that's what the judges seem to be saying at this point.

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[–] arararagi@ani.social 19 points 1 day ago

Because it's just for training AI, it will never trickle down to you.

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[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He gets it when it comes to AI. In other words, he knows it is bad to charge for knowledge.

This is more socialist than most democrat leaders which he just said.

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