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                  1. GPT is copyright laundering. @joshu/1283671523358695427
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            not entirely vibing with the original thread, but a good example of taking artists' work without consent or compensation, training a big computer on it, then directly selling the results back in a way that takes space & money from those artists @arvalis/1558632898336501761?t=34eHEVwkl-K_MadK_m7MgA&s=19
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          imagine being ND Stevenson, building a career on telling a certain kind of story & conveying a certain kind of message, then someone rips your work, trains a computer on it, and uses that to generate work you disagree with entirely with your name attached as an abstract style
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        if you're going to claim meaning of an artwork is separable from it's style, then: 1) you're wrong 2) the moonlight carries the message of love
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      an artist listed in the above image: @simonstalenhag/1559817133294485504
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    the way that "non commercial" datasets are collected by academic institutions that are funded by, work with and ultimately benefit commercial entities... @waxpancake/1575913653387546624
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      "Copi­lot intro­duces what we might call a more self­ish inter­face to open-source soft­ware... With Copi­lot, open-source users never have to know who made their soft­ware. They never have to inter­act with a com­mu­nity. They never have to con­tribute." githubcopilotinvestigation.com/
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        one more for the copyright laundering thread @davemakes/1581922437939068928?t=2zyAvLOEBjfKlfRGM-wZVA&s=19