Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter (now X) and Square (now Block), sparked a weekend’s worth of debate around intellectual property, patents, and

Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter (now X) and Square (now Block), sparked a weekend’s worth of debate around intellectual property, patents, and copyright, with a characteristically terse post declaring, “delete all IP law.”

X’s current owner Elon Musk quickly replied, “I agree.”

    • douglasg14b@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      4 days ago

      Except that the entire premise of this is to allow ai unfettered and unrestricted access to the creations of anyone without any repercussions. And allow AI companies to copy and recreate the works of others without attribution.

      Solely to benefit those owners, at the cost of everyone else.

      Also guaranteed that this will be one of those situations where IP laws will be removed for everyone except those who stand benefit from this.

      So overall there is nothing actually good or winning about this.

    • crusa187@lemmy.mlEnglish
      9·
      4 days ago

      Scratch beneath the surface and you’ll find unscrupulous greed here as well.

      • void_turtle@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        4·
        4 days ago

        The reason Musk wants this might be greed, but it’s very stupid if that’s his reason. A huge amount of the US’s global economic power comes from strong-arming the rest of the world to enforce US patents and copyright, thus funneling trillions of dollars from the rest of the world to the US. Without any patents or copyright there would be improved Chinese Tesla copies on the market within a year.

        • AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          3 days ago

          The Chinese market already has better EVs than Tesla for cheaper afaik. Teslas don’t sell well there anymore.

        • crusa187@lemmy.mlEnglish
          2·
          4 days ago

          Yeah, you’re right, but wielding this power effectively requires thinking beyond the current fiscal quarter.

          Also, small nit (because the essence of what you’re saying is absolutely correct), but…ain’t nobody trying to rip off Teslas. They’re absolute garbage, literal dumpster in the case of the cybertruck. Chinese EVs on the market today are already cheaper and better.

          That said, from Elon’s perspective I’m pretty sure this is more about training LLMs on presently copy-written material, unhindered by IP protections.