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topgrain2yesterday at 3:27 PM1 replyview on HN

> Isn't that a bit like saying if you read books in a public library to pick up a new skill you should work for free?

Only if you’re trying to muddy the waters. No, obviously it’s not. One can also support licensing for driving a car on public roads but not for walking, even though both involve traveling. This is only confusing to people pretending to be confused, for effect.

> Would it be an attack to take your meal by force if you used a public recipe to prepare the meal?

“You wouldn’t download a car…” (unless it worked like copying an MP3, then, of course, you would, everyone would)

It’s as if you’re using terrible analogies and comparisons because stronger ones don’t exist. Great news for the AI-should-be-open crowd.


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petilonyesterday at 3:36 PM

I think the analogies are appropriate. Anthropic took public data and added value on top of it. It is that added value that Alibaba is targeting. If it was the underlying data, that's freely available.

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