AI Resistance: some recent anti-AI stuff that’s worth discussing

Re:AI Resistance: some recent anti-AI stuff that’s worth dis... by jimmaswell on Monday April 20, 2026 @08:29PM (#47843077)

I categorically reject the "stealing" claim. Either training your human brain on a book is stealing, or training an AI on a book is not. There's no meaningful difference as far as how much the act is "stealing". The same people who rightfully found it laughable that dying newspaper companies wanted royalties from Google for search result snippets are suddenly chomping at the bit for copyright law to be vastly expanded and fair use to be gutted, there's no logical consistency.

An aside, I honestly think that if someone recoils at the idea of an AI learning from their idea and using that idea to help someone else, they're just a bad, selfish person.

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Re:AI Resistance: some recent anti-AI stuff that’s worth dis... by ToucanLoucan on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @08:16AM (#47847721)

> Either training your human brain on a book is stealing, or training an AI on a book is not.

Human brains are not machines sold on subscription for profit. Also a human brain can't look at all the Rembrants in existence and generate more in 5 minutes.

> An aside, I honestly think that if someone recoils at the idea of an AI learning from their idea and using that idea to help someone else, they're just a bad, selfish person.

AI's don't learn. They're statistical machines that approximate their training data and what they are rewarded for making to the subjective standards of their makers. That's not learning, they don't know anything, they're just "minimizing error."

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