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Comment Re:It's because (Score 1) 111

Here, here! LLMs are 100x smaller than their training sets, they can't possibly memorize them, so what they can do is learn generic compressed patterns. That is precisely what copyright should not protect - abstractions - and instead focus just on expression. LLMs are not even intended to reproduce expression, that is hard and inefficient. It costs money, comes out wrong, and is slow compare to ... copying which is fast, perfect and free. LLMs are precisely fit to be free of copyright issues but somehow people still scream "stealing". No, if you are talking about abstractions, those should be free to "steal".

Comment Re:It is truly automated access (Score 2) 86

The crawler is representing a real human this time, it should get the same rights as the real human. Consider it an assistive technology, like TTS or Braille reader. The best way would be to just use a Chrome tab to perform the operations using a Computer Use agent.

Comment Re:Legally mandated data retention (Score 1) 33

NYT is making copyright a weapon against creative freedom. With each new work they publish, they reduce our freedom to create. Copyrights last for too long, and have been changed from protecting expression to protecting abstractions. The AFC (abstraction filtration comparison) test and the "total concept and feel" interpretations basically make it impossible to do due diligence, nobody can ensure they don't infringe any abstract idea in all the published works. The law is biased against new creatives and public domain. In fact copyright is extremely outdated, we prefer cooperation, sharing, and doing things together now, and that doesn't work when everyone holds to their royalties like NYT. And focusing on AI infringement is far fetched, AI is by design not a replication machine, copying is a million times easier to achieve already. AI is used for novel outputs.

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