Training AI models on copyrighted works is "squarely what transformative use is," EFF’s Tori Noble told Reason - these are "general purpose tools" and "exactly the kind of creation that copyright is designed to foster.” https://reason.com/2026/09/04/doj-says-barring-ai-training-on-copyrighted-material-could-severely-hamper-tech-progress/
@eff Maybe these stupid #AI #Clankers can stop this stupid #DDoS attack on my server then?
If you have taken this hypocritical take on copyright, then you need to get your head out of you're ass, because if I did the same thing these companies are doing, I'd be sued into hell for it.
Translation: Someone at the #EFF is definitely getting fired over this stupid post.
@eff I fart in your general direction.
@eff Oh, that's disappointing.
@eff are you serious? You guys are compromised.
@eff did the EFF change on this? 😳
@eff EFF thinks they are so galaxy brained in their own heads they espouse a truely stupid take on AI.
@eff this is a shit position and you should be ashamed.
@eff No sane person loves transformative work that boils the ocean and makes hardware and electricity expensive
@eff 😫 It's really not.
@eff I'm surprised you're bragging about your staff attorney's boneheaded comment.
P.S. What are you patting yourself on the back for? Having a your staff attorney quoted in an article? I used to think EFF was cool but shameless self promotion is the opposite of cool. It's lame and gross.
@eff Even if creating a generative model is transformative, selling the use of one as a for-profit service to undercut creative artists is preventing the kind of creation that copyright was intended to foster.
But since the generation of statistically similar outputs ensures that the further-derived generated outputs are minimally transformative of the sources, it’s misleading to describe the model itself as transformative.
These services should be required to license their sources.
@eff Well, that is the end of me supporting your apparently traitorous org.
Get the fuck out of here EFF with this take.
@eff I did NOT expect this from you. Please reconsider.
@eff this really is a disappointing, "not donating again"-level of take