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      213 months ago

      Yes, and he killed himself after the FBI was throwing the book at him for doing exactly what these AI assholes are doing without repercussion

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        83 months ago

        And for some reason suddenly everyone leaps back to the side of the FBI and copyright because it’s a meme to hate on LLMs.

        It’s almost like people don’t have real convictions.

        You can’t be Team Aaron when it’s popular and then Team Copyright Maximalist when the winds change and it’s time to hate on LLMs or diffusion models.

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      33 months ago

      I’m not just a copyright abolitionnist, I also abhor all intellectual property. Yes, even trademsrk

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        33 months ago

        Me too. I fundamentally oppose the idea that ideas can be owned, even by oneself.

        But a weird cult has developed around copyright where people think they are on the side of the little guy by defending copyright.

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      53 months ago

      And he also said “child pornography is not necessarily abuse.”

      In the US, it is illegal to possess or distribute child pornography, apparently because doing so will encourage people to sexually abuse children.

      This is absurd logic. Child pornography is not necessarily abuse. Even if it was, preventing the distribution or posession of the evidence won’t make the abuse go away. We don’t arrest everyone with videotapes of murders, or make it illegal for TV stations to show people being killed.

      Wired has an article on how these laws destroy honest people’s lives.

      https://web.archive.org/web/20130116210225/http://bits.are.notabug.com/

      Big yikes from me whenever I see him venerated.