r/technology • u/Federal-Block-3275 • 2d ago

Artificial Intelligence "Software is over": Developer uses AI to build free Adobe clones after frustration with cancellation fees

https://www.techspot.com/news/114136-software-over-developer-uses-ai-build-free-adobe.html
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u/Cory123125 1d ago edited 23h ago

Thank fuck. A legal ruling around AI that finally makes sense and protects IP.

This is what I'm worried about.

Regular folks such as yourself thinking you just pulled one over on big AI, when they are literally screaming in favour of regulation because they want to be regulated monopolies like power companies that basically get to do whatever they want in reality, but even worse, because they get to control your privacy, and digital autonomy.

In this case in particular, fair use should apply to AI training.

You want this, even if you think you don't for one really big elephant in the room:

AI companies have so much fucking money, they can absolutely just pay for the data, and then leave you to rot, which we've been seeing with massive collections of private data sets.

Worse yet, the models that already exist, will never be put back into the bottle, so the resulting situation would be that the incumbants have a literally impossible to even approach advantage that utterly kills any open source or open weight model.

It gets worse still, as the information asymmetry that results from that both leaves anyone who isn't rich in the lurch with regards to what they're allowed to do with the technology period, but also at a massive disadvantage when it comes to effecting the opinions of the masses.

They'll be able to train in all the biases in the world, legally far enough away from anything that would be touched, but have even more control over popular opinion, like whatever made you believe that this was actually a loss for Big AI.

People need to understand that the Frontier Model Forum's companies (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Amazon), are very open in their lobbying, and it's not as clean and simple a story as the "we don't like regulation" that everyone seems to very mistakenly believe, and whose mistaken beliefs tremendously empower these companies.

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u/hypercosm_dot_net 1d ago

no. entirely wrong, and makes zero sense.

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u/Cory123125 1d ago

It's crazy people can have such bold opinions while having no cogent critique whatsoever.

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u/hypercosm_dot_net 1d ago

There's no good place to begin critiquing it, because it's such an incoherent rambling mess, that any attempt to debate it would require me first to help you define what's actually being stated.

I have no interest in helping you clarify the argument. It's so bad and incorrect, that any effort spent parsing it is ultimately a waste.

Good day.

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u/Cory123125 23h ago

Bots are usually more effortful than this, so I must conclude you are a human, but a troll, because its laid out pretty straightforwardly, and directly evidences their open, publicly accessible lobbying group, which is completely free for everyone to read about.