"Break down the steps of training a model and it quickly becomes apparent why it's technically wrong to call this a copyright infringement. First, the act of making transient copies of works – even billions of works – is unequivocally fair use. Unless you think search engines and the Internet Archive shouldn't exist, then you should support scraping at scale."
We need some kind of term for arguing via false equivalence.
@nyquildotorg Doctorow is one of those people who just... bug me. I've quite often agreed with him, but still he just... doesn't sit right with me somehow.
I usually put it down to the fact that I'm an asshole, but then he writes something like this and my intuition is all "See? See? We fuckin' TOLD you that guy was no good!"
Let me know if you made it through that whole "did an AI model-training company write this?" piece and it takes a turn beyond gymnastics of false equivalency.
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