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 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.
@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.
