[netbsdusers]

Usually when I hear "robbery" it brings to mind someone stealing your phone or wallet at knife-point. Certainly not training some model on some code that involves neither violence nor depriving anyone of anything.

The concept of copyright is the fiction that information - something that can be freely modified, copied, or transmitted - is of the commodity-form, that information should be treated as if it were a single real object that were inherently scarce.

It is a fiction that exists to serve of some of the most hateful, mafia-like firms - your Disneys, UMGs, Getty Images, and the like.

So if the AI interests are powerful enough to deal that whole rotten system a serious blow, then I'm all for them.

[xigoi]

Server bandwidth is a commodity. If a site gets DDOSed by LLM training, then actual humans won’t be able to access the information.