On: Unsealed Briefs in Authors’ Case v. Microsoft/OpenAI

There's no actual argument here, just name-calling. Meta literally pirated 80TB of books off of Anna's Archive. OpenAI pirated off LibGen as well. You could be prosecuted for doing the same thing, because its illegal. Piracy is illegal, piracy at the scale they committed is extremely illegal. This shouldn't be a hard or controversial concept.

Who cares. IP is a fiction, all copyrights and patents should be abolished.

Yeah maybe make a few author friends and tell them that they don't deserve any payment for their work. I'm sure the world will be much better once we even further reduce the incentives to do hard intellectual work and increase the incentives to churn out AI slop tiktok videos instead.

If a machine can do the same work for nearly free, "but the existing people want to keep getting paid" is not an argument for copyright.

Which is fine if you like human culture to never change for the next ten thousand years. LLMs can only ever interpolate or extrapolate things they’ve already been trained on.

I don’t accept the premise, it’s hard to take anyone seriously who is parroting the “stochastic parrot” argument in 02026.

Your assertion that we’ll somehow get brand new human culture from something that isn’t human might be a little shaky too.

It can’t, it needs hundreds of thousands (if not multiple millions) of human hours spent making content for it.

Training data? Luckily we have all of human history and culture to digitize to solve that problem.