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Sarah Silverman and other authors are suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement, alleging that they're training their LLMs on books via Library Genesis and Z-Library (www.thedailybeast.com)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

about fighting against the big corporations who take advantage of historically abusive copyright laws to dominate the market and prevent small authors and companies from surviving.

If people were really that principled, they'd totally boycott the big corporations and only consume media from the small authors and companies.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

You made a great point. This is exactly my issue with piracy. I believe it's a movement in the wrong direction, because it actually benefits the big media in the end.