• Lvxferre@mander.xyz
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    8 months ago

    The “fun” part is that they’ll get away with it. Google likely did the same with other platforms; so if it sues OpenAI, it’s creating a big precedent against itself.

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      8 months ago

      If they didn’t, google would own all video data just like Reddit would own most conversation data.

      It’s a good thing, at least this lets the open source scene be a player.

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    8 months ago

    I fucking hate how this company is just taking data and metrics without any permissions and repercussions. OpenAI and Sam Altman can fuck right off. Same with Microsoft and copilot and every other company rushing for the AI/ML arms race, its disgusting and irresponsible.

    We joke about skynet and terminators and whatnot, but the reality is OpenAI is legitimately moving towards that end with no safety precautions, no thought put into the economic and humanitarian impacts they’re going to cause. Capitalism in general (and yes I’m going to be that guy and say it) simply cannot survive the AI/ML age of humanity without evolving.

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    I’ll be that guy here and start a small fire.

    If it’s not OK for OpenAI to violate YT’s terms of service, then it’s not OK to use an alternative frontend or ad blocker that also violates ToS.

    You should be for enforcing the ToS or against it. Allowing one version of breaking it without the other is fickle.

    Some people think OpenAI should stop, but they should still have their ReVanced, which boggles my mind a bit.

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      8 months ago

      No, the intent and the consequences of an action are generally taken into consideration in discussions of ethins and in legislation. Additionally, this is not just a matter of ToS. What OpenAI does is create and distribute illegitimate derivative works. They are relying on the argument that what they do is transformative use, which is not really congruent with what “transformative use” has meant historically. We will see in time what the courts have to say about this. But in any case, it will not be judged the same way as a person using a tool just to skip ads. And Revanced is different to both the above because it is a non-commercial service.

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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      8 months ago

      ad blocker

      I can see an argument for an alternative FE, but I’ll never agree that an ad blocker is “wrong.” It’s my choice what to install on my machine, and it’s YouTube’s choice how they choose to deliver their content.

      YouTube controls their API (as in, what a third party FE uses), I control what I do with what I receive from the API. They’re different things.

      I do agree that ReVanced doesn’t have any “rights” here, but it’s on YouTube to block their requests, it shouldn’t be something they sue over.

      All of that being said, I’m actively looking to eliminate YouTube from my life. Nebula, Odysee, and others have enough content that I think I can replace most of my usage of YT. The main thing left is music, but I don’t listen to music all that often anyway.

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        I actually use funkwhale now for music. It’s really decent so far. A little buggy though, but it should iron out

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      8 months ago

      Rules apply to everyone else. Same people who would lay down their life for Napster and Limewire can’t watch a 5 second ad

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    Cool. So people can get valuable information without the need to watch 25 minutes long videos (of which 20 minutes are often self-promotion and blabbering for ads revenues)

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      You mean you dont want to watch a 30 minute video on “how to change a lightbulb” with only 30 seconds of actual content you need/were looking for shoved somewhere in the back that you spend more time searching for than if you had actually read the manual?!

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        You mean you dont want to watch a 30 minute video

        Extactly. 30 minutes videos is equivalent to 5 minutes reading. Blogs/tutorials >> videos. Always.

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          Especially true for these overedited videos that have an intro, a random interruption in the middle asking you to sign in their patreon, a long explaination which goes around the issue without answering it. If I had to sign in every youtuber’s patreon I’d be broke by now. I have stopped to use youtube as much as before, since video assays have to be about 40 - 1:30 hours long. Well when I had to discuss my dissertation I was given 15 minutes. Also whem I’m asked to present a powerpoint I have about 15 minutes to 20. Youtubers can take whatever they want to do it, apparently. But if you’re talking for so long switch from an assay format to a documentary format please. That is the prooer way to handle it.

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    Oh no. Big corporation didn’t follow the ToS of another big corporation and “stole” content that the first didn’t create and paid pennies for. Clearly the greatest injustice of all time.