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highplainsdem

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3. The creatives fighting this aren't giving up, and shouldn't. The robber barons deserve punishment,

Wed Dec 3, 2025, 06:03 PM

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and IMO those using the illegally trained AI despite knowing of the IP theft are unethical and should be treated as such. And penalties for fraud should be in order if they don't label their AI slop as AI.

There's a lot of contempt for AI and AI users out there. Not the people given no choice but to use it for school or work, but those using it voluntarily. There's a lot of whining from AI users that the fraudulent slop they have AI generate for them isn't taken seriously as creative work - but that's because it isn't.

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Lawyer's 6-year-old son uses AI to build copyright infringement generator [View all] erronis Wednesday OP

The copyright infringement has been going on for as long as there've been illegally trained genAI tools. highplainsdem Wednesday #1

As long as anybody can browse the web and collect data this risk is everywhere. erronis Wednesday #2

The creatives fighting this aren't giving up, and shouldn't. The robber barons deserve punishment, highplainsdem Wednesday #3

Agree. IP theft is unethical (and illegal). The recording industry foisted DRM and $50,000 fines erronis Wednesday #4

The moral is that this will destroy morale. DavidDvorkin Wednesday #5

Already having to fight this nonsense. People stealing from us left and right. mucholderthandirt Thursday #6

It's bad enough jfz9580m Thursday #7