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Perpetual reminder that the entire business model of LLM-based chatbots, no matter their nationality, is based on intellectual property theft and this gem from XKCD:

@hypolite

So im gonna listen to a song and the neural network called my brain will learn from it, so when i write my own song, turns out its theft? This is crazy. We're so used to culture being restricted that we completely lost our minds.

@kn_fk This is such a bad faith argument you've proved you're more than just a machine learning system.

@hypolite @kn_fk

"The Human-AI Scale is Not Comparable

First, humans and AI systems do not consume creative works in the same way. A human can read a novel, watch a television show or movie, or listen to a song, and while it might spark inspiration, they cannot instantly absorb every book, every screenplay, every melody ever created. "

@hypolite @kn_fk

"Artificial intelligence, by contrast, operates on a scale no human ever could. It ingests billions of pieces of work—copyrighted or otherwise—at speed most of us will never comprehend, building a knowledge base that no single creator, or even all creators combined, could rival.

That’s not inspiration; that’s extraction on an industrial scale."

David Högberg

@hypolite @kn_fk
"Humans are bound by time, access, and attention. AI faces no such limits. It doesn’t skim a book; it processes every sentence. It doesn’t watch a film for its plot; it analyses every shot, script line, and score. The claim that this is equivalent to human inspiration trivialises the reality of what AI systems do when they train on copyrighted content.

AI isn’t inspired by a work—it’s inspired by all works."