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submitted 5 months ago by db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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Our path to better working conditions lies through organizing and striking, not through helping our bosses sue other giant mulitnational corporations for the right to bleed us out.

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[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (16 children)

The point is that this tech is not only made for one reason (replacing artists and authors etc). It has plenty of other valid uses, such as an assistant, a sex toy, personal entertainment etc and probably a lot we don't know due to how young it is. I don't want to pre-emptively see all the valid uses locked-in to proprietary models and everyone becoming a serf to openAI to use them.

Call me radical, but I don't agree that anyone should have the right to tell others how to use their creative work. If you share it, it's out of your hands. All culture is a remix and has always been this way until the last 120 years. Copyright and Patents have always been a mistake and should be abolished as they achieved the opposite of what they promised.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 1 points 5 months ago (4 children)

I happen to copyright my output (obviously not here or in other comments). The question I ask myself is: would I be ok if a Nazi organization used my photos in their propaganda? I'm not ok with that, so I like to retain control over who can use my stuff. If someone acceptable were to ask me, I'd let them use my work without compensation.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

Death of the Author applies here. One can't prevent how others interpret their work. The same way a neonazi org might use your work for propaganda, is how leftists repurpose Stonetoss comics for their own purposes. Or rather, it's not that you can't prevent it, it's that the means by which you would try to prevent it, would create a functional dystopia.

If someone acceptable were to ask me, I’d let them use my work without compensation.

Personally speaking, I hate permission culture.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 1 points 5 months ago

I remember having this sort of conversation 20 years ago, and it didn't convince me then.

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