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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@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"
@eff What the fuck. Good bye then. Best of luck with the fascists, I'm sure they're all very nice.
Sorry, what? Definitely no.
@eff I have never been a *recurring* donator, I renewed annually whenever I had some money left. I do this since 2011.
VERY much rethinking this for this end of the year.
Your work is sorely needed, but AI certainly is not one of the things I think you should put my donations towards.
@eff Do kindly go and fuck yourself.
@eff fuuuuckofffffff
@eff This ain’t it, chief.
Another corrupted organization showing their ass.
@eff what's wrong with you?
