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Sep 5, 2026, 12:43 AM@eff And be warned, "stealing" in the context of copyright infringement is industry propaganda, as is "piracy".
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Sep 5, 2026, 12:54 AM@Big_Blue_Gnu @eff I think people use the term "stealing" because AI is stealing their wages with the information it "learned" (stole) from them.
People are not defending copyright from human participants, but instead are pushing back on the very technology that took away the ability for them to learn and grow in the first place.
AI is an unfair game played by massive corporations, they are not paying their fair share to the real humans who made it, and instead are passing it off as their own (ie plagiarism).
I think a lot of the sentiment is about how AIs are effectively plagiarism because they steal the work without attribution and redistribute the accreditation of such work to the AI company.
Sep 5, 2026, 7:08 AM@Big_Blue_Gnu
They are stealing whenever their scrapers cause a website to become unavailable to other visitors - either through being overloaded, or by requiring login, or by adding Anubis with high enough difficulty that mobile phones can't solve the challenge.AI is also destroying the incentives that allowed forums and Q&A sites to accumulate the knowledge that it is now scraping.
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