Post #4189023

2026-07-29 05:40 UTC

It’s a tool, like any other. No. It’s not. It’s a tool unlike any other. It can inadvertently cause you to infringe people’s copyrights. Using it means you don’t get the copyrights to the things it produces. It will literally make you dumber and lazier by using it. It’s the world’s shittiest tool used by the world’s most unimpressive people.

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@skarn@discuss.tchncs.de 2026-07-29 08:17

I’m constantly baffled by the copyright argument. Intellectual property isn’t even real property (exclusive power over a thing), it’s a licensed monopoly enforced by the state, which gives the copyright owner power over many many things, present and future, not actually owned by them. Books that are in my house, software that is on your phone. I don’t want to argue that intellectual property should be abolished, I’m not convinced that that would be beneficial. But I think we can all agree that the currently landscape of intellectual property legislation is utter nonsense, that it’s gotten completely out of hand, and that it mainly encourages concentration and gatekeeping. So yes, the model producers have blatantly disregarded copyright, and have gotten away with it in ways which are not available to us peasants. But we’re the copyleft people, we should be pointing at this and shouting that the emperor is finally naked, and that it’s time to curtail all that nonsense legislation once and for all, so that we can all be a little freer from the shackles of corporate monopoly. And instead, we (the copyleft guys!) are just sitting here clutching our copyright pearls while muttering “but… But… Copyright! It violates the precious copyright!”.

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@wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 2026-07-29 14:42

I agree that it’s unlike any other tool. I want to say it’s not even a tool, but I don’t know how to square that circle

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@kibiz0r@midwest.social 2026-07-29 17:32

The “it’s just a tool” (with optional add-on “what matters is how you use it”) thought-terminating cliche makes me put my face in my hands a little bit deeper every time I see it. Daily life in 2026 would be completely unrecognizable to a person from 5,000 years ago, and the difference is not just how we use our tools. The production, existence, and proliferation of the tools shape what is easy or hard, or even what is possible or impossible. To think that you can reshape the contours of the decision-making terrain and that has no effect on what people do, or how they think of who they are… you’d have to accept that someone in the bronze age could just wake up one day and decide to be a telecommuting web developer on HRT and Ozempic.

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