“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.”
“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…
That’s right, I’m torrenting all this stuff for my AI program…
Wow so fuck college students but machines deserve free textbooks?
Fuck this society.
Just 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
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 = badCountless dystopian novels have explored machine‘s human rights but the machines have already been granted more rights than us in our own dystopia. 💀
actually Donnie’s friends prefer to fuck high school students
machines* big Tech CorpsYou 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.
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.
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.
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.
“I’m going to training ai using this”
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.
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
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.
> 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 competitorsCopyright is woke now? xD
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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If only he were capable of being so consistent. He thinks what people pay him to think.
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…
Epstein
So what he’s saying is the billionaires funding ai can’t afford to do it legitimately
Of course not! If they did then they’d be several fractions of a billion less wealthy!
Trying to throw whatever that sticks so people would stop talking about your pedophelia
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.
Hear that college students? The President just gave you permission to pirate all your textbooks.
But only if you say you’re using them to train an AI
And that’s why I have an AI training library of movies and TV stored up.
I’ll get around to training an AI on it any day now, I’m sure.
I’ve already started training my AI. My Actual Intelligence.
Remember kids: Copyright is only for the rich.
For the poor? the rich dont pay copyright, only grandma who downloaded nothing else matter’s mp3
Copyright means a legal protection showing you own your own works: words written, audio recorded, and artwork created.
With exceptions for nonprofit and parody, others cannot use your work to do businesss with without your written permission.
Poor people apparently don’t get that.
It’s weird spunding, but they mean copyright fines.
How about you release the Epstein files and then go outside and go fuck yourself Trump.
and then go outside and go fuck yourself Trump.
He is a big baby, so he might be into it.
He’s not a barely pubescent girl, he won’t fuck himself.
