It’s disheartening to see AI reactionism lead my community to a 180° on copyright.
Everyone is merrily attacking LibGen now. If it didn’t exist, big tech companies would still find training data, it just wouldn’t be accessible to regular people.
@filippo "scientific knowledge, paid for by the public, and often discovered in public institutions for the benefit of the public, being public is bad actually" is a remarkably... something take
@whitequark pragmatic.
The word you're looking for is pragmatic.
Yes, sometimes we do make that trade-off because it's better for some to have the knowledge then for nobody to have the knowledge. It's better for some progress than no progress at all.
Don't like it? Well sometimes reality gives us choices we don't like.
@volkris @whitequark @filippo are you serious?
@volkris @filippo the word I'm looking for is "delusional", I think