• tauren@lemm.ee
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    10 hours ago

    Is it? In Sam’s case, we’re mostly talking about creative products in the form of text, audio, and video. If an artist releases a song and the song is copyrighted, it doesn’t hamper innovation and technological development. The same cannot be said when a company patents a sorting algorithm, the method for swiping to unlock a smartphone, or something similar.

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      9 hours ago

      If copyrights are used to add a huge price tag to any AI development, then it did just hamper innovation and technological development.

      And sadly, what most are clamoring for will disproportionately affect open source development.

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        8 hours ago

        If open source apps can’t be copyrighted then the GPL is worthless and that will harm open source development much more

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          7 hours ago

          I’m not sure how that applies in the current context, where it would be used as training data.