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OpenAI declares AI race “over” if training on copyrighted works isn’t fair use (arstechnica.com)
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[–] finder585@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Extracting free resources of the land

Not to be contrarian, but there is a cost to extract those "free" resources; like labor, equipment, transportation, lobbying (AKA: bribes for the non-Americans), processing raw material into something useful, research and development, et cetera.

[–] mac@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

Was about to post the same thing

[–] Mondez@lemdro.id 1 points 1 week ago

While true, they tend not to bare the costs of the environmental damage, at least when these activities are poorly regulated.