• BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Not only that, but their business model doesn’t hold up if they were required to provide their model weights for free because the material that went into it was “free”.

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      2 months ago

      There’s also an argument that if the business was that reliant on free things to start with, then it shouldn’t be a business.

      No-one would bat their eyes if the CEO of a real estate company was sobbing that it’s the end of the rental market, because the company is no longer allowed to get houses for free.

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          2 months ago

          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.