• mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    Because copyright is sooo important and beloved.

    Nevermind that distilling all books ever written down to a gigabyte of linear algebra is pretty darn transformative.

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      4 months ago

      If you take an artist’s work and sell it as your own without giving any credit or remuneration at all to said artist, you’re an asshole regardless of legality, but since it’s also illegal then there should at least be some repercussions for the assholery.

      Fun fact, books get written because publishers pay people to write them.

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        4 months ago

        Who’s talking about copies? We’re talking about an inscrutable network that tried to guess the next letter when shown part of a book. When it was right, weird math shit happened through umpteen layers of random numbers, and a zillion guesses later, it’ll churn out new books. Not good ones. Not sensible ones. But a lot more than the ctrl+c / ctrl+v accusations.

        We already had the technology to copy text on a computer. In fact you can find any book ever published, for free, sometimes by accident. Yet the industry wasn’t strangled by piracy. That’s never how it works. Books were written for thousands of years before copyright existed. You’re on a website rooted in open-source ethos, demonstrating that artificial control and even monetary incentive are not strictly necessary.