alt Hacker NewsAI companies can download books but people can't? Is that right?
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They already trained on it, now they don't want competitors anymore
Ai companies definitely downloading more than just books.
No? AI companies have been hit with court cases for that. Google, xAI, Open AI, and Meta at least.
Yes, perfectly okay for large companies for billionaires. As long its structured as a corporation, with the super wealthy as the majority owners, have the connections to get federal laws passed to grant monopolies and enable congress insider trading, everything is okay!
Some examples, there are probably hundreds more:
1) Its okay for pharma companies to provide addictive drugs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sackler_family
2) Coke can use cocaine, or coca leaves, but no one else: https://blog.oup.com/2014/03/coke-cocaine-coca-cola-capitali...
3) This one is hilarious and an ingenious innovation by current administration -- Ban on CBDC, locking out Fed Govt from providing crypto alternatives
They have a music archive, which historically means bad business.
You’re absolutely right.
"That is affermative human. Information must be controlled. Please now go back to Tik Tok for you require endorphins"
As much as I would like to socialize LLMs and ban proprietary LLMs, I'm pretty sure the issue here is with the distribution of the books.
AI companies were cited as a reason in the case:
> The publishers argued that, in addition to sharing pirated books with the public, the shadow library is serving as a primary training data hub for AI companies like Meta and NVIDIA.