riskable

Yes. That does make sense.

If you bought a book, scanned it—destroying it in the process—then read it on your computer, that would be completely acceptable.

Why is it wrong when a corporation does the same thing?

They're not claiming ownership of the copyrights, just ownership of a copy. Which is how copyright works.

Big AI mostly switched to synthetic training data anyway. The books they're digitizing are being used to gather knowledge, not writing styles or logic (mostly).

As in, when you ask ChatGPT how long some book is, it can just go check (if it's in the database). It's also useful if you ask about that book or about knowledge contained in that book. It'll even reference books now (if you demand that in your prompt).

It's not the same as earlier LLM tech which relied on scanned text to figure out how to respond to any given prompt (from a language standpoint). The "language" part of LLMs is a solved problem now (thanks to the synthetic training). At least for English 🤷

Just because that product isn't an exact copy of the book doesn't mean they're not abusing the copyright.

No, it does mean that. If a work doesn't contain enough of the original that a layman could identify it as a copy (plagiarism) or derivative, it's not violating or abusing copyright.

Mountains of popular books (and all media, really) are built upon previous works. If copyright worked the way you suggest, none of those stories would be legal.

The act of copying a book you own into a database is legal. That's all Alsup is reaffirming in that quote you shared.

Remember: Copyright is all about distribution. Until a copyrighted work is distributed, copyright law doesn't even really come into play.

Those of us who remember the MPAA/RIAA wars of the 90s and 2000s understand that it is your right to make as many copies of a thing as you damned well please. Fuck the MPAA and fuck you if you're taking their side.

We must never allow corporations to control what we do with our own shit. You know that, "you will own nothing and you'll love it" quote? If you're against what Alsup is saying in this ruling, you support that stance (of owning nothing).

Many hail Net (the god of water and winning) with their balls of many sizes but only this guy performed the ritual successfully.

So... You still working on rain or have you been promoted to snow?

Wait: You're not one of those sleet people, are you?

Only one of the focus group members, a 24-year-old engineer from New York named Alvin, gave Trump a 5 out of 5, praising him for "trying to bring back manufacturing jobs" even though manufacturing growth has slowed.

So basically, only the delusional think he's doing a good job. I'd say this is like, "just my opinion, man" but no: That's literally what the focus group discovered! It's a fact.

So he's literally saying the beatings will continue until morale improves‽

Yeah! Let's get rid of ALL data centers! That way, there won't be any Internet at all!

You do realize that if it weren't for data centers, you wouldn't be reading this message or posting to Lemmy, right?

Your local instance might be hosted on some Raspberry Pi somewhere, but your Internet connection itself is going through data centers and relies on data centers all over the world to work.

You wouldn't even have a working cell phone without data centers.

At this rate, Windows will never be ready for the desktop.

This is a real dick move.