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Why is it that so many companies that rely on monetizing the data of their users seem to be extremely hot on AI? If you ask Signal president Meredith
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Tokenizing and calculating vectors or whatever is not the same thing as distributing copies of said work.

It very much is. You can’t just run a cipher on a copyrighted work and say “it’s not the same, so I didn’t copy it”. Tokenization is reversible to the original text. And “distributing” is separate from violating copyright. It’s not distriburight, it’s copyright. Copying a work without authorization for private use is still violating copyright.

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You can’t just run a cipher on a copyrighted work and say “it’s not the same, so I didn’t copy it”.

Yes I can. I can download a Web page, encrypt it on my machine, and I’m not distributing said work.

And “distributing” is separate from violating copyright. It’s not distriburight, it’s copyright. Copying a work without authorization for private use is still violating copyright.

That’s just false.

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You absolutely do not know what you’re talking about. This is just trivial copyright law, but there’s a weird internet mythology that if you can access something on the net you can take it as long as you don’t share it further. The reason the mass-sharers tended to get prosecuted is because they were easier and more valuable targets, not because the people they were sharing it with weren’t also breaking the law.

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