@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

@eff yooooo this sucks

i mean, completely unsurprising from y’all at this point, but regardless. sucks. big sucks. sucks shit.

@eff oh boy

@eff bye

@eff This is a profoundly disappointing take by the EFF.

@eff
What
The
Fuck

I'm stunned. This is the last organization I expected to take a stance against individuals and placate to the authoritarians.

@eff This is NOT all that is going on, EFF account-minder, and I reject your softened and euphemized framing of this issue. This isn't about "training" or "transformation" or any positive purpose, it's about capturing and destroying information, grabbing the books and other works and stuffing them into the machine and then making sure nobody else can use the stuff for their own rackets.

This is a fraud. The entire #tech sector is consecrated to CHEATING. You can't honestly say that there's a positive "transformative" purpose in the GenAI obsession.

There's no reason at all at work. Their thing isn't an "AGI superintelligence" and they know it. When do we stop pretending that this is just kind-hearted software engineers wanting to change the world? They exist, but not anywhere powerful in U.S. business or technology.

@eff oh, AI is transformative alright. it's transforming earth into a hellscape even faster than it already was.

who has access to everything they stole, anyway? if their stolen shit leaked, who would get in trouble? no one?

@eff Burn in hell, you fascist backstabbers.

@eff regurgitating content in a statistically probable manner is not transformation. Transformation requires intent.
Robut has no intent.
There is case law on this already.
Please unfuck yourselves.