Tell that to OpenAI. They’re not the only ones who have come out against IP law in the wake of the kerfuffle about how it relates to AI.
This is one of those cases where two groups seem like they are united on a subject but aren’t really. OpenAI claims they want to abolish copyright for the good of themselves and AI, but that isn’t really true. They just want immunity from it, complete death of copyright doesn’t benefit them or any of the companies, since they’d lose their moral high horse against civilians using their material without paying them, as well as their ability to legally retaliate.
Really their claimed stance against copyright doesn’t undermine any of the anarchist and pirate arguments against IP law as it is today and as a concept, it doesn’t even align with it. It’s no different than right wingers saying there’s a war on science or that they want to protect women and children from groomers. It’s just obfuscating or lying about their intentions. OpenAI is just claiming their against copyright because it’s easier to swallow than saying they wish to be immune from copyright, maybe even be able to usurp individual people’s copyrights outright.
This was not an argument about how everyone who has talked about avoiding or abolishing IP law is the same or has the same intentions, this was an argument about how AI is utterly dependent upon unlicensed content, and as evidence goes, them saying ‘gosh we really need to be able to skirt/get rid of/whatever this to keep going’ is, regardless of the complexities of the situation, in itself evidence of that fact.
The specifics of their particular flavor of opposition to being bound by IP law, while interesting, don’t particularly matter to that argument. But thanks for the added context.
This is one of those cases where two groups seem like they are united on a subject but aren’t really. OpenAI claims they want to abolish copyright for the good of themselves and AI, but that isn’t really true. They just want immunity from it, complete death of copyright doesn’t benefit them or any of the companies, since they’d lose their moral high horse against civilians using their material without paying them, as well as their ability to legally retaliate.
Really their claimed stance against copyright doesn’t undermine any of the anarchist and pirate arguments against IP law as it is today and as a concept, it doesn’t even align with it. It’s no different than right wingers saying there’s a war on science or that they want to protect women and children from groomers. It’s just obfuscating or lying about their intentions. OpenAI is just claiming their against copyright because it’s easier to swallow than saying they wish to be immune from copyright, maybe even be able to usurp individual people’s copyrights outright.
This was not an argument about how everyone who has talked about avoiding or abolishing IP law is the same or has the same intentions, this was an argument about how AI is utterly dependent upon unlicensed content, and as evidence goes, them saying ‘gosh we really need to be able to skirt/get rid of/whatever this to keep going’ is, regardless of the complexities of the situation, in itself evidence of that fact.
The specifics of their particular flavor of opposition to being bound by IP law, while interesting, don’t particularly matter to that argument. But thanks for the added context.