AI is the recuperation of the anti-copyright critique.
“Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it.” Lautréamont, 1870
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AI is the recuperation of the anti-copyright critique.
“Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it.” Lautréamont, 1870
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in reply to Dmytri • • •In Poésies (1870), Lautréamont goes further:
“A good appreciation of Voltaire’s works is preferable to those works themselves.”
What was once part of a radical refusal of bourgeois ideology would now be music to the ears of big tech.
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in reply to Dmytri • • •Anti-copyright has been fully recuperated, and it feels like only a matter of time before a tech billionaire claims that ingesting copyrighted material into AI is détournement.
However, only when it is an input to production.
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in reply to Dmytri • • •Now imagine what happens if we abolish IP tomorrow. The bubble pops and the empire collapses.
This might be in fact the primary contradiction of the economy. Idealism paired with hoarding as a business model.