AI is awesome tech but it’s also to some extent mass piracy. The models are trained on huge amounts of material with dubious or non existent rights.

I have a hard time being concerned about “you pirated my piracy.”

I hold the view that many of these models should not be copyrightable. Anthropic and all the others talk about “safety” but you never hear them bring up attribution of the data that trained the model or compensation of anyone for it.

Can we finally just nope out of this closed model of AI development?

It should all be open source with each gain shared and celebrated by all.

What I get from this is frontier model capabilities are being stagnant.

Heres my guesstimate on the future:

Companies like Anthopic will be using the same model as anyone else. They just bring value in having a fast datacenter and agent.

Its stupid to even think that a general model lile opus would be the real value.

Models age fast, new ones come along, and the end user wont care "whos model it is" just that it is fast and sharp.

Seeking a monopoly on its business. And it's not just the Chinese, its their US competitors as well.

Sorry, Anthropic, but AGI must belong to all of humanity, not just to you.

"The distinction between downloading pirated copies vs. scanning physical books is fascinating — same data, different legal outcome. Copyright law really wasn't built for this era."

the biggest irony of 21st

Thieves complaining about theft and then gaslighting the victims; rich, but not smooth.

I wonder if some clever comedian here will make the very original joke that Anthropic is "getting a taste of their own medicine".

Illegal or just against their ToS?