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/
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Machine learning transfers skill to wealthy while withholding wealth from the skilled.
Isn’t copyright intended to do the opposite?
@eff You're gonna argue in favor of them being able to copyright the resulting AI mashup too, aren't you? That's converting our work into their work without consent or compensation.
@eff A few weeks full of disappointments. What a disaster.
@eff Who bribed you, and how much did they pay?
@eff I strongly disagree. And it seems many more disagree too. Fostering billionaires is not what liberalism is for.
@eff what the fuck is wrong with you...
Torpedoing everything good you do with such a shit take???...
@eff now this is disappointing
@eff i guess it is only theft if you aren't a billionaire? you had one job eff and you failed. protecting the rich was not it. grow a spine and fight for EVERYBODY not your tech bros
@eff deeply disappointing
@eff cmon EFF, what corporate contributions are you defending with that conclusion. It is resoundingly false. Your position should be the individual creator not some corporate monolith scraping the globe for all known human knowledge with the goal of regurgitation without citation. It is the largest copytheft industry in history.
@eff wait wtf EFF? I thought you were on our side 😿
@eff You know your take is good and you are on the right side of history when you are siding with corporate interests in a puff piece from the Koch funded Reason outlet, and in great company, with their long history of defending and platforming apartheid defenders, big tobacco, climate change deniers, big oil, holocaust deniers, covid deniers...
@eff What is the point of the EFF if it's going to side with big tech companies burning the planet while stealing labour? Are you just PR for oligarchs now?
@FediThing Ah but it's their oligarchs who they know so that's just fine. 🤦♀️
I mean the EFF were also into Blockchain, it's their libertarian roots. Freedom for the individual not the community.
@onepict It doesn't even make sense from libertarian perspective as GenAI/LLM dependence would hand over control and monitoring of discourse to giant tech corporations? On the other hand a lot of libertarians worship corporations and authoritarians so they never believed in individual liberty either.
@FediThing Yep, folks like that want power for themselves.
Whereas the rest of us know that it's a responsibility and it should be shared.
Power is a burden not a toy. But folks should be sharing it regardless.
Only spoiled children don't want to share their toys.
It's true, they chase after power but don't really want to govern. They regard it as a status symbol rather than a job.
Once authoritarians get into power they get bored with running things. They show no interest in the drudgery of keeping a country going (sewer systems, food supplies, medical provision, social safety nets, economic policy etc), instead they want big exciting projects and wars even if they make everything worse for their country.
@eff tell that to my employer when I transformatively use their IP to create a copyleft software that annihilates their whole business model.
"they're the same picture"
