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Re:Many AI safety orgs have tried to criminalize currently-e... by shkkmo on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @02:18AM (#39010374)
> There's plenty of FOSS software basically designed to violate copyright law (comic readers, home media center servers/clients, torrent clients)

The key difference is that those projects don't violate copyright themselves, but facilitate users doing so. If training without a license is infringement then projects that are doing so will struggle to host code/models publicly or access other parts of internet infrastructure.

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Re:Many AI safety orgs have tried to criminalize currently-e... by lannisterstark on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @04:20AM (#39011223)
>struggle to host code/models publicly or access other parts of internet infrastructure.

To be fair, IPFS/Torrents/Usenet exists.

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Re:Many AI safety orgs have tried to criminalize currently-e... by shkkmo on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @04:28PM (#39019404)
Yes, there are workarounds that are already used in other areas of copyright infringement. It won't stop the activity completely but will curtail the scale of that activity.
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