• @grue
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    518 days ago

    I don’t think they believe that; I think they either (a) think a human lawyer would understand it during the class-action suit after the the AI scrapes it anyway, or (b) more likely, they’re doing it to make a point as a matter of principle.

    Either seems pretty fucking reasonable, to be honest!

    • @barsquid
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      318 days ago

      It’s just noise. Assuming US jurisdiction where many of the AI companies are based; either AI scraping is fair use, in which case the license is meaningless, or AI scraping is not fair use, in which case they already have the copyright.

      • @grue
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        118 days ago

        or AI scraping is not fair use, in which case they already have the copyright.

        What? How would an AI company have copyright over @[email protected]’s comment? That makes no sense at all.

        • @barsquid
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          618 days ago

          It’s the other way around, onlinepersona already has the copyright. Asserting that the copyright is non-commercial changes nothing. The default is non-commercial. The default is nobody can use it. They are applying a more permissive copyright than the default.

          • @grue
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            118 days ago

            Ah, I see what you mean now.