Post #2155718
2025-10-11 17:39 UTC
@rejzor@mastodon.social @jaystephens@mastodon.social @mmantscheffau.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy @Greg_mrt@mastodon.social The AI companies are following a different model: "It isn't theft if it wasn't bolted down, and it wasn't really bolted down if someone pried it loose." They aren't even making any pretense of attempting to buy legal rights to the vast amounts of material they copied.
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@jaystephens@mastodon.social 2025-10-12 02:25
@zakalwe @rejzor @mmantscheffau.bsky.social @Greg_mrt disturbingly reminiscent of the Spanish Catholic faction in the 1600s that was going "but if we recognise indigenous American people have souls and we can't freely extract their labour, the entire economic basis of colonisation is wrecked"