re @claudeai
I've identified industrial-scale copyright violations on my content by Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, X, and more.
These companies created thousands of crawlers incorporating the text of all my blog posts, open source code, and books into their paid AI models to profit exorbitantly.
As Chinese proverb says: He who steals a hook is put to death, but he who steals a country is made a marquis.
@geerlingguy @claudeai Copyright violations give you a hunting license to go after the offenders, but with a possible award of attorneys fees. You'll never got to the point of a judgment, there will be a settlement and probably not worth it after all the headache. Our judicial system is broken. Accept their copying and just continue creating.
@geerlingguy @claudeai oh no! Someone used content in a way that was never meant/allowed in the licensing agreement? Outrageous! We should collectively push for legislation that prohibits this kind of abuse, ideally on a worldwide scale.
Seriously, I like Claude but just like when OpenAI cried about DeepSeek, I laugh. You can’t do one thing and then complain when others follow your steps.
@geerlingguy They do really need to stop complaining about this publicly, its not helping them on the business side. Every single model provider did/doing some version of misappropriation/stealing of human produced content. All the providers listed above are Chinese and beyond the control of even the USgov.
@geerlingguy and here I thought, you own the tokens you create... Guess only when it suites the narrative
@geerlingguy @claudeai The entire tech industry has been corporate espionage, spite forks, and shit throwing since the 8088 was considered fast, and I'm sick of pretending it's not.
@geerlingguy @claudeai it's like Facebook and other social media where user generated content made profit for the social media companies! Now the whole internet is generating profit for the AI companies, the only difference is we didn't sign up for AI!
@geerlingguy @claudeai - industrial-scale copyright violations today, tomorrow - global-scale human rights violations. What can go wrong.
@geerlingguy Good on you, Jeff! Iʼm not skilled enough to identify them all, but there is evidence in our records of Microsoft and Open AI, Google, Tencent, Alibaba and ByteDance harvesting our content at a mass scale. @claudeai
@geerlingguy
Actually they are charging and making a loss, so I hope it bursts soon.
Anthropic have a cheek.
They hang the man and flog the woman
Who steals the goose from off the common
But leave the greater villain loose
Who steals the common from the goose
@geerlingguy @claudeai Good news! They have in fact not profited exorbitantly, as not a single one has made any profit whatsoever.
@devin_and_earth @claudeai Haha well not in accounting terms / 'reality', but the valuations allow them to purchase billions in hardware and data center capacity.
@gary_alderson I have a lawyer, but not the funds to try attacking orgs that could sink a few million dollars into fighting a lawsuit at the drop of a hat.
we get to steal everything
how dare anyone steal from us
HOW DARE THEY
*head desk*
@geerlingguy well, this is why most people do not tolerate the AI hype. Just so you know, there is an AI blocker you can use on your websites: https://anubis.techaro.lol/
Stealing from all of the world? Seemingly alright.
Stealing from AI companies? Industrial-scale copyright violation……
@geerlingguy
I suspect that of you started a fund to hurt those bastards, many would contribute.
I would, for one.
@AlexTheStampede @geerlingguy @claudeai Hah, yes! Cory Doctorow cites how Facebook famously scraped people's friend connections & posts from MySpace so users would find it easier to migrate to FB ... but .. if a startup tried to do the same to Facebook today, their lawyers would nuke it from space until the rubble glowed. The bell always tolls for Thee not for Me, don't you know.
@geerlingguy My exact reaction as well, when I heard that the AI grifters are now complaining to the gov about other grifters grifting on them. @claudeai@threads.net it's only a bit embarrassing, a tiny bit. You plundering societies wealth of public knowledge and everything besides and then selling it back to us at a premium. We are not as stupid as your little sock puppet Artificial Idiots.
@gary_alderson @geerlingguy
Most lawsuits against firms abusing open source copyrights don't end in multi-million payout, but with a the abusers giving a pinky-promise that they'll will not to it again.
That pinky-promise cannot feed the hungry lawyer.
@joosteto @geerlingguy make sure you adhere to the license and no problems - most are pretty generous #source #types of licenses #forks
