• BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
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    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”.

    • T156@lemmy.world
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      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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        Businesses relying on free things. Logging, mining, ranching, and oil come to mind. Extracting free resources of the land belonging to the public, destroying those public lands and selling those resources back to the public at an exorbitant markup.