Was surprised to see so many left wing people articulating absolutist Intellectual Property positions that, if taken to their systematic conclusion in real life, leads to the "Disney is the eventual sole proprietary rights-holder to all extant human culture" future

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Appeals to copyright as a rationale for AI being forever tainted are just so pathetic. Like, I'm sorry, I thought grownups agreed that copyright is a tool for corps to bully artists around when Zara was looting designs wholesale. Or maybe people just don't appreciate small artists

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They keep trying to wrap it up in the language of labor. “cultural workers deserve to be paid for their work” always seems to apply to the landed gentry of the art world and never extends to the humans tap dancing, playing sax in the subway or working on weird niche art

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the President of the United States is posting videos of people being mauled to death by animals (both real and AI-generated) to his personal social media account i am sure the political media will turn this into a months long national discourse over his fitness to serve, right?

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open source and open data as an ethos is largely anti capital and anti authority and is inherently political in ways we need more of

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