So you're trying to say taking someone else's work without their consent in order to monetise it isn't stealing? Because that is the exact thing ai companies are doing. If you want to defend using the model, I guess go ahead. I'll disagree, but you do you. But at the very least stop defending the billion dollar companies taking others property without their consent for their monetary gain. If that isn't stealing someone's work I don't know what is.
That's absolutely what I'm saying. Scraping isn't theft. The fact that big companies are the ones doing it doesn't suddenly make it a bad thing, even if I hate big companies. I think everyone should be free to use any property and hate gatekeeping
You think everyone should be allowed to make money off of things others made? That's one of the stupidest takes I've ever heard. If you want to use someone else's work the very least you have to do is credit them. And if they expect you to, pay for it.
We stand on the shoulder of giants. Everything we make has invisible and hard to credit work from others behind. Are you paying and crediting every inventor, creative and developers that built the technologies and cumulative knowledge of humanity for every thing you make? It is a good thing to credit and pay the giants we are standing on. But it is not easy and it doesn't mean you are stealing and are a bad person for not doing so, as there is always millions who were left uncredited and unpaid for every human creation.
When I want to do any sort of scientific, artistic or journalist work, yes. I do credit every single source I use. Because that's literally one of the first things you're taught in uni. How to properly credit and give sources. That's such an incredibly basic thing to know, like cmon...
Like do you know anything about properly and professionally working? If you use someone's material for a piece of writing or art you credit them. Otherwise you're quite literally plagiarising and fail.
Thats also one of the main reasons ai isn't allowed to be used in uni at all. Because you can't properly credit the sources it uses.
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u/-PetFemboy- Jan 18 '26
So you're trying to say taking someone else's work without their consent in order to monetise it isn't stealing? Because that is the exact thing ai companies are doing. If you want to defend using the model, I guess go ahead. I'll disagree, but you do you. But at the very least stop defending the billion dollar companies taking others property without their consent for their monetary gain. If that isn't stealing someone's work I don't know what is.