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Dont limit this to AI companies. All social media companies should be forced to become nonprofits and their code AGPL'd
But the AGPL does not prevent you from doing commercial activities
Being nonprofit also doesn't prevent you from doing commercial activities.
But i think the idea would be if they are forced to be nonprofit and their code open-sourced then there is now transparency in how their LLMs are trained and operate.
But it's a bit silly to try to make AI companies nonprofits to begin with since they could just go to another country with "better" laws if they are punished too heavily in one country.
People gotta eat. There's nothing wrong with selling open source software
The most important part is that the people and the government can see how the suggestion and feed algorithms are written, so they they can make them change them if they're found to lead to increased harm, such as suicides.
That's beyond stupid.
If you don't want bots scraping your content, then don't put it up on the public internet.
Do artists not deserve the right to decide who profits from their art, even if it's posted to the internet? Would it be ethical for me to sell posters of artwork I did not create without the artists permission?
No, I don't think they deserve that "right."
Ethics vary from person to person and change with the times. I think it would be ethical because I do not support the ownership of ideas.
I understand and support being for the abolition of copyright, but I don't think it's possible under capitalism. Artists need to eat, and food costs money under our current system.
The ownership of ideas and the ownership of a specific piece of art are different concepts, too. If artists could patent style, we'd all be breaking the law.
This is one of the funnier things I see frequently on here. People both champion free and open source code and data that can be used for anything… until it is used for anything they even mildly dislike.
Maybe that’s what you believe, but allowing commercial use has been a core tenant of free and open source software