What's mine is yours, comrade!!!!
There's no sense in worrying how closely the university aligns real policy with various theoretical economic ideals.
If we allow copyright law to directly inhibit technological advancement then we defeat the very purpose of copyright law.
That said, it need not inhibit if they just pay for using it. Hopefully they will sue for reasonable compensation, noting that they have such a privilege only in a handful of countries so any restriction is strictly a restriction on those countries, which is a huge technological advantage for all the rest.
I try to see both sides.
You can be right, and dead at the same time.
Just because I think they filed stupid doesn't imply that I think they are wrong.
Negotiate from there.
They may say they have the best of intentions, but call me skeptical.
We disagree on this point.
America won't let China have defense technology that it doesn't get to use.
It has nothing to do with OpenAI, or any other company, nor artists, nor right from wrong. If OpenAI eats small children for breakfast, or feeds all the hungry in Africa, makes no difference whatsoever.
You can ignore that fact and stand on a mountain and shout about OpenAI being evil all day long.
But you're going to lose the lawsuit if you ignore the facts of reality. No matter how loud you cry about it.
1 single person in their basement would be thrown in jail for downloading the whole internet, but a company with “plans” is fine.
Not sure if you read my comment in a different light or not, but I do get the feeling you misunderstood my meaning.
Would you be happy if I sold your house for $10,000, so long as I give you half the proceeds? Or would you, I dunno, call the police.
If you copy what my house looks like, no, I won't call the police.
Especially if you copy it for the purpose of empowering the police (govt) to protect my actual house.
That's a much more accurate analogy.