Technology

OpenAI wants to eat everyone's lunch. They don't even respect robots.txt.

I'm gonna be real, I don't think an AI company stealing every bit of data I ever put online to ingest into their AI so they can use it to make money really falls under "fair use."

If it were individuals, who were doing it for shits and giggles, and not to make a profit, I'd have a different view. Because I kind of don't care if you're just some random asshat making an art project and aren't using it to try make beaucoup bucks on the back of the whole planets intellectual labor.

Fair Use should be for humans not corporations. Fuck this "corporations are people too" schtick, they aren't and the fact that they're taking this data and using it to profit really should be viewed no differently than the argument that people made about The Pirate Bay, that through piracy, they were making money, which is what made it wrong.

If we keep allowing the rich to just steal from the public commons because of dumb shit like corporations having the same rights as people, we're barrelling headlong into a Cyberpunk Dystopia, if we're not there already.

Humans who are creating art and culture should have rights to Fair Use, not giant fucking corporations using it to profit wildly at the public expense. Copyright is all fucked up and broken, and this is a great example of why, because we're aiming provisions that were meant to protect the public are now aimed at protecting corporations profits.