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HarperCollins Confirms It Has a Deal to Sell Authors' Work to AI Company

https://www.404media.co/harpercollins-ai-deal/
TheTechnician27 - 1.1yr

But then they sue the Internet Archive for hosting a library for the betterment of society. Capitalism is a plague.

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watson - 1.1yr

Capitalism = organized crime

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AllNewTypeFace @leminal.space - 1.1yr

Owned by Rupert Murdoch, who has done more harm to the world than probably anyone who wasn’t an actual dictator, so unsurprising.

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acockworkorange - 1.1yr

Still a toss between him and some dictators.

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IninewCrow - 1.1yr

Who says everything that's ever been produced and being created right now (including this comment) isn't just being mass collected and dumped into a LLM right now?

It's like pirating digital data like a movie or ebook, everyone is told not to do it but everyone is capable.

Do you think capitalist, money hungry media companies haven't already done it.

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chickenf622 @sh.itjust.works - 1.1yr

If this is opt-out by default it's at least not a complete dick move. The hard limit of $2500 compensation for opting in? Definitely a dick move.

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MajorHavoc @programming.dev - 1.1yr

It's still a dick move, because Harper Collins has a huge amount of oligopoly power. Any supposed concession is likely of no real use to any authors who rely on the big companies to get published.

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