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How is that stealing?

Do art students steal when they tour the museum? Please, I really need to know... what sort of dingbat philosophy is it that thinks that this even slightly resembles stealing, in either of the "copyright infringement is stealing" or the "actual theft" meanings.

I hope the DSM VI includes copyright maximalism in its list of mental illnesses.



That's a projection. Also OpenAI didn't walk into museums to "learn". It downloaded billions of images that it then ingested tokenised and then mixed to produce results. It's not a human "touring a museum". This argument is absurd and is based on the flawed notion that software has "equal rights" to humans, or that it posseses some sort of intelligence.


I don't speak whatever incoherent, irrational language you're using.

None of what you've said is relevant. The same or similar processes the brain uses are at work here.

> This argument is absurd and is based on the flawed notion that software has "equal rights" to humans,

The people who run the software have the same "equal rights" as humans. If you're allowed to download one of those images and look at it, they're allowed to download it and train their software with it.

You're trying to invent new intellectual property rights out of thin air. No thanks, we already have more than enough of that lunacy.


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>Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

>When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names.

>Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

Sure looks like it's your posting privileges that are in danger, not his.




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