This is shady. Copyrighters absolutely not get to control use of their copyrighted material when people mentally, sonically, or physically reproduce it for personal use.
It's absurd to say "you can't record this book to a friend or robot".
Nobody seems to actually reproduce the copyrighted materials.
High-dimensional eigendecompositions which underpin AI similarity are some of the most literally derivative materials of texts that you can imagine.
So you record a copy "for a friend" and then you sell lots of those copies as your business. All within your rights! What's mine is yours, my Comrade!
(my point being that it would be different if the product CommonCrawl provides were trained models, but this is not the case: its product is unlawful reproductions of copyrighted data for commercial use)
It's awfully hard to claim you aren't selling anything when you're giving other people's stuff away for free and they would be selling it if you hadn't, um, "saved them the trouble"
The fundamental difference between deteriorating British culture and successful American culture: British feel "indignity of open confrontation". Honestly shocking. The indignity in America is usually in NOT eventually openly confronting wrongdoers.
It's embarrassing and cringe-inducing to read that even one person--much less an entire culture -- feels more dignity getting beaten down and bullied by strangers or peers than confronting them openly or berating them publicl.
“feels more dignity getting beaten down and bullied by strangers or peers than confronting them openly or berating them publicl” is rather hyperbolic and (in my opinion) doesn’t capture what’s going on here.
I think this speaks more to a culture of thinking of other peoples’ experiences/rights/feelings as well as their own.
Whenever I drive in the US I’m always staggered by just how selfish people are on the roads, for example. Is another car very clearly merging onto a highway where it would be easy to make enough room for them to merge? In the UK, 90% of the time the cars on the highway will make room. In the US I’ve literally never seen it happen.
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