You may have seen the headlines about a Microsoft employee calling AI scraping “the largest theft of labor in human history.” It made the rounds on social media, with plenty of people i…
If I ran into a university and stole all of their teaching aids, books and art to "train my university students, that’s still fucking theft. Why tf would you stick up for them in any way?
Don’t you have to steal them to copy them? The fact that no one knew they were stealing them to copy, means the owners didn’t know, couldn’t opt out or protect them. Just because it’s not a law yet, doesn’t make it okay.
If someone still has their belongings after a “theft” it’s not theft.
What they are doing is violating the artists (and much more heinous things), but calling it theft isn’t accurate, has undesirable side effects, and doesn’t solve the problem of stopping them doing what they’re doing.
It’s not theft. It’s plagiarism. They’re different.
Your second point is a valid problem with what they did (but doing something that is wrong doesn’t mean it is theft).
If I ran into a university and stole all of their teaching aids, books and art to "train my university students, that’s still fucking theft. Why tf would you stick up for them in any way?
Did you copy them or keep them?
Why are you interpreting this as defending them?
Don’t you have to steal them to copy them? The fact that no one knew they were stealing them to copy, means the owners didn’t know, couldn’t opt out or protect them. Just because it’s not a law yet, doesn’t make it okay.
Why are you not? You wrote the defense out.
If someone still has their belongings after a “theft” it’s not theft.
What they are doing is violating the artists (and much more heinous things), but calling it theft isn’t accurate, has undesirable side effects, and doesn’t solve the problem of stopping them doing what they’re doing.
No, you can go into the library and take pictures / scans of the pages without the books ever leaving the library.
Billions of them? ok
… and then write cheap copies without any penalties whatsoever, right?
Yes, that’s copyright infringement, not theft
i guess you are not old enough to have seen the old commercials lol