It sure would be terrible if this atavistic knuckle dragging neanderthal took another swim in raw sewerage and accepted its loving murky embrace forever.
Just terrible. I mean, the waterways are polluted enough as it is.
No, that's a good point. We all bloody well know there isn't a single provider of LLM's that aren't sucking the entire Internet dry while gleefully ignoring robots.txt and expecting everybody else to pay the bill on their behalf, but the AI providers are getting really good at using other people IPs both to mask their identity and to evade blacklists, which is yet another abusive behavior.
But that's beside your point. So forget the class-action lawsuit in favor of the relevant Ombudsman.
Either way, this cannot go on. Donation-driven open source projects are being driven into the ground by exploding bandwidth and hosting costs, people are being forced to deploy tools like Anubis that eats additional resources - including the resources of every legitimate user. The cumulative damage this is doing is no joke.
Nobody said they replicated by authoring the replica from scratch, which seems to be what you're assuming. A generative AI is ultimately a lump of code and a statistical model. Surely you're not saying that it cannot copy files given file system access.
Because copying some files and starting new processes is all it really has to do to 'self replicate'.
Oh yes, "predictive policing". I guess somebody haven't read Phillip K. Dick's The Minority Report, or thought it was an implementation guide rather than a cautionary tale.
So... Riddle me this: What's the difference between 'states invading each other' and 'civil war'?