A hundred percent, but the fact remains that journalists have a very hard time supporting themselves in their profession. A job that is critical (when done well) to an informed public.

It must be depressing knowing you could just take a TypeScript React bootcamp and probably double salary in a year. Like, journos have an important job. It's just not lucrative, despite its value to people/society.

Just do your best.

You paid your own money for every single copyright work you’ve ever seen in your life?

I never claimed this distinction, and I don't think it's a meaningful point.

I'm saying that I pay for art. These companies don't, but more to the point, they seek to undermine their source once they've extracted all the training data they need. I'd go so far as to say it's in poor taste to use free art, because it should be patently obvious that most artists putting out free art, did not anticipate its use by devices that let you bypass artists entirely.

There's an alternate way that this could have all gone down: after some internal testing, we could have simply asked artists to volunteer their work for the project of training. There are enough people excited about the tech that this would have been plenty! It just wouldn't have let companies rush for market share, and hope the business utility would gloss over any ethical qualms in the aftermath.

Yeah I paid for em too

I see you also married someone from a fairie tale kingdom. Some people just seem to have a certain animal magnetism, ye

I'm just saying there are legitimate questions here and the people deserve to know the truth

There is enough freely licensed content to make whatever you want. I have no trouble at all making websites and comic books and video games using freely licensed content.

First time with one of these? They are pretty cool, yeah

Is this a Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell reference? https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jonathan_Strange_and_Mr._Norrell

Why not just use free use content? There's plenty of it. More than ever before in human history

Pretty accurate to the story, now that I actually read it.

I felt this way with instagram. My phone can barely handle the web app and you can't even replay the video without an account. Truly garbage UX