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New comment by 23B1 in "It sure looks like Meta stole a lot of books to build its AI"

23B1 — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 23:34:17 +0000

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New comment by 23B1 in "It sure looks like Meta stole a lot of books to build its AI"

23B1 — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 07:24:02 +0000

Not really. I don't just walk up to Random House and get my book on the B&N endcap. Also please define good author.

New comment by 23B1 in "It sure looks like Meta stole a lot of books to build its AI"

23B1 — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 07:22:42 +0000

I'm certain you understood my point.

New comment by 23B1 in "It sure looks like Meta stole a lot of books to build its AI"

23B1 — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 06:49:24 +0000

OP's argument is a common one amongst the IP entitlements crowd.

New comment by 23B1 in "It sure looks like Meta stole a lot of books to build its AI"

23B1 — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 06:47:25 +0000

Totally cool! I'm confused how that's related to what I'm saying though.

New comment by 23B1 in "It sure looks like Meta stole a lot of books to build its AI"

23B1 — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 02:45:56 +0000

Fair use was designed for teachers photocopying pages of Walden for their pupils to read over the weekend. Not industrial-scale laundering of IP to benefit shareholders.

New comment by 23B1 in "It sure looks like Meta stole a lot of books to build its AI"

23B1 — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 02:42:24 +0000

"Information wants to be free"

No, you want it to be free. The people whose labor created that information didn't want it to be free, especially for some gigacorp to launder while hiding behind fair use.

New comment by 23B1 in "It sure looks like Meta stole a lot of books to build its AI"

23B1 — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 02:37:15 +0000

As a long-time writer, this case will have impact on me, but I maintain a fool's hope a Meta loss will significantly weaken IP-laundering megacorps.

New comment by 23B1 in "It sure looks like Meta stole a lot of books to build its AI"

23B1 — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 02:35:59 +0000

OP is making the spurious argument that technology should have the same ethical entitlements as humans. It's on par with "information wants to be free".

New comment by 23B1 in "I Met Paul Graham Once"

23B1 — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 17:50:42 +0000

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New comment by 23B1 in "Book and Dagger: How scholars and librarians became spies during World War II"

23B1 — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 17:04:28 +0000

My general sense of HN is that it is pretty well moderated even if a bit opaquely. It's a niche audience who is gonna have their preferences that will bleed through, but also it's not designed to enable provocative or controversial discussions just because those tend to hit runaway condition pretty quickly. I myself have been hit a few times with the hammer but on the whole its been a pretty consistently good community even if a little monoculture-y.

New comment by 23B1 in "Book and Dagger: How scholars and librarians became spies during World War II"

23B1 — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 18:38:17 +0000

I don't think it's about one ideology over the other. It's about extremism of any sort that threatens to become violent. I'm not justifying or excusing it, but in my limited experience it's mostly about the bureaucratic justification of continued funding. Then the nuance becomes: 'Are these extremist movements genuine speech, or a function of foreign interference' and more often than not, it's both.

(I have no idea why the parent comment was flagged, would love an explanation for it though)

New comment by 23B1 in "Book and Dagger: How scholars and librarians became spies during World War II"

23B1 — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 16:08:31 +0000

And those graduates also subsequently make their way into the IC.

New comment by 23B1 in "Perplexity AI submits bid to merge with TikTok"

23B1 — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 03:14:37 +0000

It would actually be brilliant of the CCP to further entwine itself with Musk via acquisition. I think it goes without saying that the man is an opportunist and a globalist in populist clothing.

(Fwiw I like that he owns Twitter now if for nothing more than the schadenfreude)

New comment by 23B1 in "Amazon's AI crawler is making my Git server unstable"

23B1 — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 19:49:41 +0000

Commentary is often second- and third-order.

New comment by 23B1 in "Amazon's AI crawler is making my Git server unstable"

23B1 — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 19:47:11 +0000

Manga nerds on Tumblr aren't the artists I'm worried about. I'm talking about people whose intellectual labor is being laundered by gigacorps and the inane defenses mounted by their techbro serfdom.

New comment by 23B1 in "Amazon's AI crawler is making my Git server unstable"

23B1 — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 19:43:56 +0000

For sure.

I'm really just pointing out the inconsistent technocrat attitude towards labor, sovereignty, and resources.

New comment by 23B1 in "Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but Trump might offer lifeline"

23B1 — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 17:45:22 +0000

Computer touchers awash in luxury beliefs.

New comment by 23B1 in "Supreme Court rules to uphold TikTok ban, setting stage for shutdown"

23B1 — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 17:41:20 +0000

Or mutually-supporting fires, a death-spiral of agitprop fueling already bent values.

New comment by 23B1 in "Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but Trump might offer lifeline"

23B1 — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 17:40:31 +0000

Stupid false dichotomy.