Re:Ex-Google CEO: AI startups can steal IP and hire lawyers ...
by rbanffy on Saturday August 17, 2024 @12:51PM
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> You've missed the "if you have to ignore it to succeed" part of my comment.
Breaking the law makes a lot of terrible business models instantly profitable.
Imagine I have a uranium refinement company. It is a colossal capital investment and not many companies do it. Law forbids me to sell weapons grade uranium for random people, but it just happens those very people are the ones who are willing to pay a lot of money for it as long as I don’t ask too many questions.
Re:Ex-Google CEO: AI startups can steal IP and hire lawyers ...
by sbarre on Saturday August 17, 2024 @12:48PM
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> Also copyright infringement does not physically harm people.
Starving artists might disagree here.
Re:Ex-Google CEO: AI startups can steal IP and hire lawyers ...
by ryandrake on Saturday August 17, 2024 @12:49PM
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How about slave labor? Definitely more profitable than paying employees. Is the law broken here, too?
Re:Ex-Google CEO: AI startups can steal IP and hire lawyers ...
by rbanffy on Saturday August 17, 2024 @12:52PM
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Just look at the pyramids. Thanks to slave labour Egypt has now a reliable source of income from tourism. Let’s make it legal again.
Re:Ex-Google CEO: AI startups can steal IP and hire lawyers ...
by ryandrake on Saturday August 17, 2024 @12:55PM
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LOL nice. The scary thing is it's hard to tell if this is sarcasm on HN these days. Some days reading this site, I think I've found someone who genuinely believes we should end all regulation because it's more profitable without.
Re:Ex-Google CEO: AI startups can steal IP and hire lawyers ...
by rbanffy on Sunday August 18, 2024 @04:32AM
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It was sarcasm. I’m sure I’m not a sociopath.
Re:Ex-Google CEO: AI startups can steal IP and hire lawyers ...
by ronsor on Saturday August 17, 2024 @01:50PM
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You don't need slave labor to run a business.
Re:Ex-Google CEO: AI startups can steal IP and hire lawyers ...
by Arainach on Saturday August 17, 2024 @02:03PM
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Plenty of people have made that argument for a long time. They make it to this very day - "if we have to pay a living wage (or comply with safety regulations, or give benefits, or....) we'll go out of business!"
You'll do fine without robbing a bank or dumping chemical waste (neither of which are profitable in practice now, as well). Meanwhile society is littered with so many small instances of copyright infringement (memes, which usually are not fair use; fan art; etc.) that it's common practice for rightsholders to look the other way - but it shouldn't have to be common practice, it should just be policy.
Also copyright infringement does not physically harm people.