It's like the world turned upside down in the last 20 years. I used to pirate everything as a teenager, and I found it silly that copy right would follow along no matter how anything was encoded. If I XORed copyright material A with open source material B, I would get a strange file C that together with B, I could use to get material A again. Why would it be illegal for me to send anybody B and C, where the strange file C might just as well be thought of as containing the open source material B?!
Now when I've grown up, starting paying for what I want, and seeing the need for some way of content creators to get payed for their work, these AI companies pop up. They encode content into a completely new way and then in some way we should just accept that it's fine this time.
This page was posed here on hacker news a few months ago, and it really shows that this is just what's going on:
Now when I've grown up, starting paying for what I want, and seeing the need for some way of content creators to get payed for their work, these AI companies pop up. They encode content into a completely new way and then in some way we should just accept that it's fine this time.
This page was posed here on hacker news a few months ago, and it really shows that this is just what's going on:
https://theaiunderwriter.substack.com/p/an-image-of-an-arche...
Maybe another 10 years and we'll be in the spot when these things are considered illegal again?