Re:Hugging Face, GitHub and more unite to defend open source...
by tticvs on Saturday July 29, 2023 @05:56AM
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> Copyrighted materials have been stole
This is far from clear, it's obvious to me that training is fair use.
But even so, if copyright prevents these tools from existing it needs to be abolished.
Also not possible to steal a digital good, that's industry propaganda that they lobbied corrupt governments (US included) into codifying into law to the detriment of all humanity.
> Overnight? Is this proposal not known ahead of time? Is it being kept a secret until enters into force suddenly, at midnight?
"Sorry I haven't been closely playing attention to the minutiae of politics on a continent I don't live on, what do you mean I am being fined for my GPT-2 clone I trained years ago for fun and uploaded?"
Overnight? Is this proposal not known ahead of time? Is it being kept a secret until enters into force suddenly, at midnight?
> These companies are not trying to take something from you but are in fact trying to give something to you.
Copyrighted materials have been stolen, and that's exactly why the creators are keeping secrets, and exactly why they're trying to influence people like you into lobbying on their behalf.