@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.

@eff Like #ACLU I dont always agree with #EFF. But your argument is extremely harmful to creators. As a loooong time donor and supporter, I am very disappointed in your tech bro advocacy here.

@eff fuck 'tech progress', it's.progressed enough.

@eff This is exactly the kind of creation copyright exits to protect from. Fuck off.

@eff I disagree. To my mind, 'transformative' requires human intent.

@eff boooooooooooooo

@eff no human = no intent = no transformation

eff y'all done fucked up

@eff "Billionaires stealing creative work is fine" is a stance you can take, I guess.

It's a bad stance, but you can take it.

@eff yeah, that's an unfollow for me. Eat farts and beat street.

@eff Unfollowing, removing from annual donation list

@eff What about “Purpose and character of the use, including whether the use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes”?

@eff I didn't have "EFF being deeply corrupt in the stupidest way imaginable" on my bingo card

I hope that boot tastes good