• @BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
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    1003 days ago

    Not only that, but their business model doesn’t hold up if they were required to provide their model weights for free because the material that went into it was “free”.

    • @T156@lemmy.world
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      773 days ago

      There’s also an argument that if the business was that reliant on free things to start with, then it shouldn’t be a business.

      No-one would bat their eyes if the CEO of a real estate company was sobbing that it’s the end of the rental market, because the company is no longer allowed to get houses for free.

      • NicoleFromToronto
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        233 days ago

        Businesses relying on free things. Logging, mining, ranching, and oil come to mind. Extracting free resources of the land belonging to the public, destroying those public lands and selling those resources back to the public at an exorbitant markup.

        • finder
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          3 days ago

          Extracting free resources of the land

          Not to be contrarian, but there is a cost to extract those “free” resources; like labor, equipment, transportation, lobbying (AKA: bribes for the non-Americans), processing raw material into something useful, research and development, et cetera.

          • richmondez
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            12 days ago

            While true, they tend not to bare the costs of the environmental damage, at least when these activities are poorly regulated.

            • finder
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              3 days ago

              If basic economics get you upset, then alright.

              Bye o/

      • Tavi
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        23 days ago

        Agribusiness in shambles after draining the water table (it is still free)

        • SeekPie
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          113 days ago

          Doesn’t mean that businesses should allowed to be.

    • @freely1333@reddthat.com
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      103 days ago

      even the top phds can learn things off the amount of books that openai could easily purchase, assuming they can convince a judge that if the works aren’t pirated the “learning” is fair use. however, they’re all pirating and then regurgitating the works which wouldn’t really be legal even if a human did it.

      also, they can’t really say how they need fair use and open standards and shit and in the next breathe be begging trump to ban chinese models. the cool thing about allowing china to have global influence is that they will start to respect IP more… or the US can just copy their shit until they do.

      imo that would have been the play against tik tok etc. just straight up we will not protect the IP of your company (as in technical IP not logo, etc.) until you do the same. even if it never happens, we could at least have a direct tik tok knock off and it could “compete” for american eyes rather than some blanket ban bullshit.