“I need it for my business plan to work out” is not a great legal argument for when you’re trying to override others rights.
So what you’re telling me is it’s still a legal argument.
I laughed so hard at this but then realized that dumb and dumber is less dumb than our current reality lol
Ah, but yet…
Wow so fuck college students but machines deserve free textbooks?
Fuck this society.
Just tell your campus book store that you self-identify as AI. FREE BOOKS!
But you aren’t an oligarch of the fascist dictatorship, so you have no rights.
Bold of you to assume I’m not a fascist oligarch. Mebbe I am?
The fuck are you doing on fedi then? Go exploit more people or something
I tried once. I’m hardwired with compassion and a strong moral and ethical framework.
Last time I tried so hard at employee wage theft and I ended up giving my guys a bonus and the afternoon off. I’m just not cut-out for fascist oligarchy.
It’s ok buddy. After all, you’re just a dog that drinks coffee.
It’s only ok if you destroy the books in the process. Eating the pages as you read them is the most convenient way. So free food AND free books!
machine learning = good
human learning = badJust download digital copies of the textbooks and say you need them as training material for your own AI dataset when the copyright holders come after you.
I’m training a neural network. It’s just that the neural network is 1 layer with zero data reduction -so it’s only capable of printing the text exactly as the source material on my computer! AI finally works!
Just download the books and say its for your neural network project
just happens your also the project
it’s fine when the theft flows up the pyramid. it’s not fine when the theft is us stealing back what was always ours
machines* big Tech Corpsactually Donnie’s friends prefer to fuck high school students
You don’t have libraries in the schools there in the USA? (It is a question, not sarcasm or something)
Not for textbooks…
Like, if your curious there’s a bunch of info out there about why the situation is so fucked.
But in general they release new editions almost every year, with the same information just shuffled so page numbers are different. Even really petty stuff like keeping the same practice work, but changing the order of answers so you need the most updated book every year.
My univeristy library would often have one or two copies of the current textbook on course reserve in the library. This meant that 1) you had to know where the course reserves were, 2) hope you could get it before one of the other 100-150 students also taking that course got it first, and 3) hope some dickhead didn’t just take it off the shelf and hide it in their study carrel or in a quiet corner of the library. Number 3 gets worse the higher the level of degree you are studying.
hope some dickhead didn’t just take it off the shelf and hide it in their study carrel
Or rip out some of the pages to fuck everybody else over.
My library, you have to check out books on reserve from the circulation desk. They’re for in-library use only, 3 or 6 hours at a time, and if you take it into a study room and scan the whole thing with your phone we saw nothing.
We don’t like the constant churn of textbooks, either. They eat into our budget. We really appreciate when a professor lends us their personal copies of a textbook for us to keep on reserve. We also try and steer instructions to Open Educational Resources (OER), which are available for free.
Wealth disparity sucks and shouldn’t result in different access to education.
Oh, fuck… I see. My condolences.
And a lot of professors write their own text book.
At least those professors seem to either price their books reasonably or readily pirate it themselves to distribute.
Probably once they realize how little they get compared to the book price.
the good ones ensure older verisons are still valid for their course work and only do annual editions because they’re contractually obligated by their publisher.
The cool professors used to make a “study guide” especially if it was their own book that they’d give out for free and told everyone to return the books
It’s been a minute, so not sure if it’s a thing still.
But yeah. Unregulated capitalism pretty much always ends this way.
You have to buy the book, so they pump out new editions constantly and charge insane prices. It’s a captive market
We do. The issue is at the college/university level, most courses require specific edition textbooks (they update them every 1-2 years) that the professors assign homework questions out of. You’ll be lucky if the school library has a copy more recent than the last 8 years.
Then on top of that, many professors will also use digital 3rd party homework services that are tied to a textbook access code that you only get with a new copy. So unless you pay up you can’t do homework and fail the class.The whole system is fucking bullshit
My university (well, typically the professor) usually made sure there was at least one copy of the current course’s text book in the library. Yes, that means there was exactly one copy available for us poor students to share. At least it was put on the “reference” list so no one could take it home - just study it in the library and then put it back on the shelf. I don’t know if that’s possible now that they are going to digital editions.
Countless dystopian novels have explored machine‘s human rights but the machines have already been granted more rights than us in our own dystopia. 💀
Yes, one would expect human intelligence to benefit quite a lot from free access to information.
Become a more common occurrence too. Possibly an effect much stronger than that of AI requiring lots of computation with unpredictable shittiness of the output.
“I’m going to training ai using this”
Funny that when it was about protecting profits copyright was such a cornerstone principle but when it’s about protecting profits it can also be set aside.
“You can’t be expected to get a successful higher education when every article, book, or anything else that you’ve read or studied, you’re supposed to pay for.”
> law passes > buy servers > create piracy site > call it AIbay > have all kinds of things there under a synonymous name > when interrogated tell them you have a proprietary technology that you won't release to competitorsTime to ignore all the copyright and patents for my own
nefarious purposesAI training“I am
hosting a pirate bay instanceAI” foolproof.How am I supposed to train my neural network (my own brain) to be a filmmaker if I have to pay for each piece of media I train on (watch)?
How very socialist of him
More like national socialist
Holding companies responsible for the infringement of them using copyrighted materials without restitution to the creator is literally the only tool we have in ever changing current copyright laws, and we’re watching it be waved away.
So why can’t I read them for free too? Only massive billion dollar companies get stuff for free?
I would like to announce that I am pioneering a new AI program. Give me access to all of the movies for free please.
So why can’t I read them for free too?
I can. Don’t you have libraries in your country?
They are trying to do away with Libraries or at least censor anything “woke” in the US.
Argh, that sucks.
Just do it and say “oopsie!”
Don’t spend one more dollar on educational material. If a person had to pay for every textbook and online subscription, education would be impractical.
Brb training an llm on the criterion collection. It’s for educational purposes.
He also fucked children
You can’t be expected to have a successful AI program without the release of the full text of the Epstein files (minus protection for the victims, of course).
Raped.
That’s right, I’m torrenting all this stuff for my AI program…
Remember:
Copyright law as a whole will stay the same. In the court of law, you will need to prove that you indeed operate a very big AI company that indeed does AI things before they will let you off the hook for massive copyright infringement. You can’t just use that excuse casually! Rules will be for thee, not the actual AI-companees.
Trying to throw whatever that sticks so people would stop talking about your pedophelia
Copyright is woke now? xD
If only he were capable of being so consistent. He thinks what people pay him to think.
Good, keep convincing them that copyright is woke. And we don’t want anything woke right, wink wink
Don’t worry, it’ll still be rules for thee, but not for me. That’s how fascism works.
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Sssh. This might be the first time in the last 100 years copyright isn’t EXPANDED for the benefit of publishers. I’ll hold my breath until we see if they figure out a way to reduce copyright only for silicon valley corporations while expanding it for the rest of us. Or not…
