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schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de to Libre Culture@sh.itjust.works · 1 month ago

Copyright Infringement Still Isn’t Theft, Even When A Microsoft Employee Says It Is

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Copyright Infringement Still Isn’t Theft, Even When A Microsoft Employee Says It Is

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You may have seen the headlines about a Microsoft employee calling AI scraping “the largest theft of labor in human history.” It made the rounds on social media, with plenty of people i…
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      Pretty sure they’re breaking excel with ai slop, i have to restart excel every 20 minutes because it stops rendering the spreadsheet randomly.

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          It’s for work

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              Im not a dev my stuff is like locked down by IT but they do know about the issue and the guy is definitely open minded to trying other things.

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    It is theft since the artists and creators have no say in it. There was plenty of open copyright material they could have used, but they didn’t. They have admitted to the crime, why are you sticking up for them techdirt?

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      Because copyright infringement isn’t theft.

      Legally (generally, caveat: jurisdiction) theft requires that the victim is deprived of ownership.

      The article depends on a technicality that is routinely abused in courts all over the world.

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    He didn’t say it was. He said it will be perceived as that.

    millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions.

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    Are you sure? I’d consider Microsoft an expert on the topic.

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