Reasoning by analogy in this case is not abstraction. It's just shifting the determination to choice of analogy.
Meanwhile, irl.. The best analogy is recent tech Innovations. The internet, social media...
Online copyright was basically instituted when large tech companies were ready to do it, and it was to their advantage.
Youtube, for example, built itself to massive size and locked in network effect advantages largely by violating copyright.
At some point, the legal ambiguity was a problem for their ad business. They were ready to move into the current revenue share influencer-treadmill model for content. At this point online, copyright enforcement was necessary to reduce the risk of being flanked by a new video platform.
The iPod, which resurrected Apple, ran on copyright infringement, and copyright Greyzones.... Until the point when their interests flipped. They're negotiating position opposite labels , Network effect considerations, Etc.
Intellectual property, broadly, does not start out as an intuitive/emergent natural right. It is created by legislative process, ecplicitely taylored to the needs of an interst group and/or national interest.
Writers, publishers, inventors, IP holding companies...
The legal rhetoric around legal arguments... is rhetoric. It is not the reason why decisions are made. It is how decisions or justified post fact.
No one is going to burden aI companies, at this point. The rights of copyright holders are a trivial matter compared to the potential of AI, the risk to certain labor markets, and such.
> At some point, the legal ambiguity was a problem for their ad business. They were ready to move into the current revenue share influencer-treadmill model for content. At this point online, copyright enforcement was necessary to reduce the risk of being flanked by a new video platform.
That is a gross mischaracerization. There was a time in that Viacom case that people were ligitimitely worried that YouTube would go away. The regime that YouTube has built now was established together with the large media companies, when those media companies could no longer ignore them.
In practice, we seem to be leaning towards the idea that training on a copyrighted book is wrong if used to replicate or paraphrase that same book, but not if used to teach a model how to write better.
It doesn’t sound unprofessional— it sounds unethical. Either they’re making something that they genuinely believe is unsafe but don’t want to stop because, you know, that’s business! Have you seen how much this shit costs? Or they’re deliberately making the entire country feel unsafe because it looks great to investors. Either way, frankly, fuck them and everybody else playing this dumb billionaire’s game. They deserve every bit of static this dimwitted government levels at them.
If Dario was altruistically trying to save us from the supposedly evil other party rather than pursuing oceans of cash, he’d have stayed in the nonprofit AI research space.