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[–] suyuemulator@leminal.space 2 points 3 hours ago

The Suyu Emulator is an open-source, Nintendo Switch emulator built to run on Windows, Android, iOS and Linux devices. https://suyuemulators.net/

[–] mhague@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

They spent a lot of money and political capital to train their AI just for it to get leaked back to the masses.

If only every AI company scraping the internet would have their model be given back to the people. It's the minimum they could do.

[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 17 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

Courts will say "no, that's not what we meant by that" and will slap you silly.

AI companies aren't on the side of copyright reform or abolition, they just want an exception for themselves so they can keep doing whatever they're doing now. (And they also want more IP laws to cover the current grey areas, so they can stop pretending to give a damn about open models)

[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

The post isn’t a sound legal argument, but it is an ethical one.

[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 hours ago

Yeah, well, Law and Ethics are two separate things which - very rarely these days - seem to cross each other. This is known.

[–] seraphine@lemmy.blahaj.zone 30 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Well, someone had to say it, so here I go:

inhales

If piracy isnt owning, then buying isn't stealing?

wait i messed it up

[–] chiruyuki@ani.social 9 points 11 hours ago

A+ for effort lol

[–] Johanno@feddit.org 20 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

True but it is only legal if you are a multi billion dollar company that could have paid for it, but didn't choose so.

If you can't afford it you should rot in Guantanamo for ever!

[–] theparadox@lemmy.world 6 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

It's also ok if you are using it in an effort to make workers obsolete and upend the entire economy.

Yeah. Thats good. All law violations excused to do that. Also you get all the water if you're trying.

[–] Xerxos@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I don't know if it's different in the US, but here the downloading isn't punished, it's the sharing that gets you in trouble.

[–] MrSqueezles@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Our government allows ludicrous control to rights holders. I don't own any copies of movies, for example, even discs. Disney owns the physical discs. I just have them in my home. I own the right to play the discs in certain ways. I'll bet policies will be updated to clarify that Disney doesn't approve of, "training AI".

But it's the same here. If you aren't actively doing anything that upsets rights holders, they'll leave you alone.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] MrSqueezles@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

US. Apologies, edited before posting and removed that key piece of information.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

I don't think you're correct about them owning the disk, unless you mean in the sense there are things you believe you should be able to do that you aren't. You can own a book, but it doesn't mean you hold the copyright.

[–] wabafee@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago

When laws do not work for most of the people is it worth following in the first place?

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 99 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Hmm...

If I illegally download college course text books I could also technically pirate a whole ass education. Just won't have a degree.

Unless... Can I pirate that, too? 🤔

[–] hsr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 88 points 1 day ago

Educating computers 😇

Educating people 😡

[–] DupaCycki@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

All you need to do is print it, forge the signatures and input it in the national registry. Should be doable.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago

If you train a local LLM and let that LLM write your thesis for you, it's fine.

[–] chocrates@piefed.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Having the material doesn't mean you know it unfortunately. You could probably give yourself a PhD level of education yourself with resources publicly available, but you would need to be able to learn on your own, and putting together the curriculum would be a problem since you are starting as a novice at whatever subject it is.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

however, the curriculum is also often publicly available

[–] chocrates@piefed.world 6 points 1 day ago

Totally, when I want to learn a new subject in my field I will go find a uni course with a public curriculum and use that to help my studies. It also lets you find books that have ostensibly accurate information

[–] vin@lemmynsfw.com 7 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

So I can cover a song and distribute it, right? Right??

[–] psycotica0@lemmy.ca 2 points 19 hours ago (2 children)
[–] TomArrr@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

So, don't release albums, release tutorials?

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

So then I guess I can learn the song, write down the notes from memory, and play that cover. It's all gone through a neural network and so it's all fine, right?

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 3 points 9 hours ago

So, I memorized all the binary digits in the waveform of a Metallica song and wrote it down from memory.

Unfortunately I've got a bad memory so I had to do them one digit at a time, but technically I didn't copy anything, I only wrote down my own memories, right? Also, my handwriting is worse than my doctor's so I chose to write it on a computer.

The funniest thing happened when I accidentally opened this text file in Winamp. It almost sounded like music, except that the drums were played like shit.

[–] commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 day ago

education is a fair use exception, too

[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 23 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Oh, so I should get a positronic brain?

[–] maccentric@sh.itjust.works 4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

My dyslexia turned that into post ironic brain and that works too

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

I like post-ironic. That's when satire doesn't work any more because real life is worse.

[–] Karcinogen@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Step 1: positronic brain

Step 2: make a fuck-ton of clocks

Step 3: profit