@eff There goes the donation I was going to make

@eff are you fucking high?

@eff interesting point of view. Not one I’m happy with but interesting and informative.

@eff

fuck "tech progress".

@eff fuck off with that shit.

@eff Lot of folks who clearly didn't read the article are crashing out over this post.

@eff this is not the EFF I have known and loved. Wtf has gone wrong?

@eff I'd be interested to know what you, @pluralistic, think about it?

@eff well... fuck

@eff They aren't "general purpose tools" this *absolutely* isn't anything remotely like the creation that copyright is designed to foster, and it definitely isn't a transformative work. I get that she's a lawyer by trade and training, and therefore lacks the background to understand what "AI" is, so I have to wonder who she's been working with to have developed such an enormously skewed idea of what this technology actually is and how it's created.

@eff Sorry EFF but that is a terrible move. Maybe one day you will reflect and discover why. But until then hell no.

@eff Looks like the EFF just became one of those organisations I actively avoid donating to.

@eff never getting another fucking CENT from me you morally bankrupt fucks. What an unbelievably humiliating betrayal. You cannot trust anyone or anything in this world, apparently

@eff so how the f does that square with privacy and free speech????

Stealing is a violation of privacy, stealing our words is a violation of free speech. No one is being compensated. Rare books are being destroyed. In some cases original authors are being denied the rights to their own work because an AI stole it from them.

You can not say this is not stealing.

Absolutely you have violated your own purpose in existing.

#EFF

@eff

Even granting the bizarre claim that training a large language model on entire works isn't a copyright violation, how can you pretend not to see the bigger picture?

I ask this as a long-time EFF contributor who's suddenly reconsidering.