Fucking good!! Let the AI industry BURN!

Do they even teach the constitution anymore?

An important note here, the judge has already ruled in this case that "using Plaintiffs' works "to train specific LLMs [was] justified as a fair use" because "[t]he technology at issue was among the most transformative many of us will see in our lifetimes." during the summary judgement order.

The plaintiffs are not suing Anthropic for infringing on their copyright, the court has already ruled that it was so obvious that they could not succeed with that argument that it could be dismissed. Their only remaining claim is that Anthropic downloaded the books from piracy sites using bittorrent

This isn't about LLMs anymore, it's a standard "You downloaded something on Bittorrent and made a company mad"-type case that has been going on since Napster.

Also, the headline is incredibly misleading. It's ascribing feelings to an entire industry based on a common legal filing that is not by itself noteworthy. Unless you really care about legal technicalities, you can stop here.

The actual news, the new factual thing that happened, is that the Consumer Technology Association and the Computer and Communications Industry Association filed an Amicus Brief, in an appeal of an issue that Anthropic the court ruled against.

This is pretty normal legal filing about legal technicalities. This isn't really newsworthy outside of, maybe, some people in the legal profession who are bored.

The issue was class certification.

Three people sued Anthropic. Instead of just suing Anthropic on behalf of themselves, they moved to be certified as class. That is to say that they wanted to sue on behalf of a larger group of people, in this case a "Pirated Books Class" of authors whose books Anthropic downloaded from the book piracy websites.

The judge ruled they can represent the class, Anthropic appealed the ruling. During this appeal an industry group filed an Amicus brief with arguments supporting Anthropic's argument. This is not uncommon, The Onion famously filed an Amicus brief with the Supreme Court when they were about to rule on issues of parody. Like everything The Onion writes, it's a good piece of satire: link

https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/22/22-293/242292/20221003125252896_35295545_1-22.10.03%2520-%2520Novak-Parma%2520-%2520Onion%2520Amicus%2520Brief.pdf

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The site formatting broke it. Maybe it'll work as a link

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Not every country lives under the Divided States constitution you entitled twat. Other countries are actually free living with actual rights.

Not that having a constitution ever meant anything to you idiots as you just sit there watching taco tits wipe his asshole with it.

Yeah, so, this lawsuit is under US jurisdiction. Your entire comment is entirely irrelevant to the conversation at hand.

We just need to show that ChatGPT and alike can generate Nintendo based content and let it fight out between them

What um, what court system do you think is going to make that happen? Cause the current one is owned by an extremely pro-AI administration. If anything gets appealed to SCOTUS they will rule for AI.

I'm thinking, honestly, what if that's the planned purpose of this bubble.

I'm explaining - those "AI"'s involve assembling large datasets and making them available, poisoning the Web, and creating demand for for a specific kind of hardware.

When it bursts, not everything bursts.

Suddenly there will be plenty of no longer required hardware usable for normal ML applications like face recognition, voice recognition, text analysis to identify its author, combat drones with target selection, all kinds of stuff. It will be dirt cheap, compared to its current price, as it was with Sun hardware after the dotcom crash.

There still will be those datasets, that can be analyzed for plenty of purposes. Legal or not, they are already processed into usable and convenient state.

There will be the Web covered with a great wall of China tall layer of AI slop.

There will likely be a bankrupt nation which will have a lot of things failing due to that.

And there will still be all the centralized services. Suppose on that day you go search something in Google, and there's only the Google summary present, no results list (or maybe even a results list, whatever, but suddenly weighed differently), saying that you've been owned by domestic enemies yadda-yadda and the patriotic corporations are implementing a popular state of emergency or something like that. You go to Facebook, and when you write something there, your messages are premoderated by an AI so that you'd not be able to god forbid say something wrong. An LLM might not be able to support a decent enough conversation, but to edit out things you say, or PGP keys you send, in real time without anything appearing strange - easily. Or to change some real person's style of speech to yours.

Suppose all of not-degoogled Android installations start doing things like that, Amazon's logistics suddenly start working to support a putsch, Facebook and WhatsApp do what I described or just fail, Apple makes a presentation of a new, magnificent, ingenious, miraculous, patriotic change to a better system of government, maybe even with Johnny Ive as the speaker, and possibly does the same unnoticeable censorship, Microsoft pushes one malicious update 3 months earlier with a backdoor to all Windows installations doing the same, and commits its datacenters to the common effort, and let's just say it's possible that a similar thing is done by some Linux developer believing in an idea and some of the major distributions - don't need it doing much, just to provide a backdoor usable remotely.

I don't list Twitter because honestly it doesn't seem to work well enough or have coverage good enough.

So - this seems a pretty possible apocalypse scenario which does lead to a sudden installation of a dictatorial regime with all the necessary surveillance, planning, censorship and enforcement already being functioning systems.

So - of course apocalypse scenarios were a normal thing in movies for many years and many times, but it's funny how the more plausible such become, the less often they are described in art.

Good!!! Let the AI industry fucking burn!!!

The people who literally own this planet have investigated the people who literally own this planet and found that they literally own this planet and what the FUCK are you going to do about it, bacteria of the planet?

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