Alessio Fanelli: belief

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…That's a serious overreach of the state there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So as a free market person, I want to defend. It is weird. I'm a free market person and I'm a content creator, right? So I want to be paid for my content. At the same time, I believe that people should be able to make their own decisions about all these deals. But UGC is a weird thing because UGC is contributed by volunteers. Yeah. And the other big news about Reddit is that apparently they have added to their robots.txt, like, only Google should index us, right? Because we did the deal with Google. And that's obviously blocking OpenAI from crawling them, Anthropic from crawling them, you know, Perplexity from crawling them. Perplexity maybe ignores all robots.txt, but that's a whole different other issue. And then the other thing is I think this is big in the sort of normie worlds. The actors, you know, Scarlett Johansson had a very, very public Apple Notes take down of OpenAI. Only Scarlett Johansson can do that to Sam Altman. And then, you know, I was very proud of my newsletter for that day. I called it Skyfall because the voice of, that voice was sky, so I called it Skyfall. But it's true. Like, there's, that one she can win. And there's a very well-established case law there. And the YouTubers and the music industry, the RIAA, like the most litigious section of the creator economy has gone after Yudio and Suno, you know, Mikey from our podcast with him. And it's unclear what will happen there, but it's going to be a very costly legal battle for sure. Yeah. I mean, music industry and lawsuits, name a more iconic duel, you know, so I think that's to be expected. I think the last time we talked about this, I was pretty optimistic that something like this would reach the Supreme Court. And with the way that this Supreme Court is making rulings, like, we just need a judgment on whether or not training on data is transformative use. So I think it is. Literally, we're using transformers to do transformative use. So then it's open season for AI to do it. And comparatively, the content creators and owners will lose out. They just will.…

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