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>>skille+(OP)
If you run a store on Main Street,

should you get to decide if people can take pictures of your store?

>>konsch+ub
If you run a store on Main Street, should people be allowed to take pictures of your store, copy its content and put it up for sale on another store?

I see this argument made over and over again here on HN and it’s puzzling that people always stop at the first part.

Companies won’t stop at the “look at your content” phase. They will use the knowledge gathered by looking at your content to do something else. That’s the problematic part.

>>manuel+tc
...Yes?

Retail companies research what other retail companies are doing and copy them all the time... was the answer supposed to be no here?

>>safety+dd
And is your point that that’s ok?

>>manuel+ef
Maybe I am not understanding your point?

Of course it's OK to take note of what stock is on a store's shelf, go back to your own business, and sell the same stock. It's also ubiquitous. It is de facto practiced globally by everyone, it's generally legal, and it's morally fine. Broadly speaking we call this competitive intelligence or market intelligence.

>>safety+Bg
My point is that these analogies fail to capture the actual reality of AI products and they relationship with source content.

The source content is part of the AI product. There is no AI product without the source content.

This is not you going to a store and see what they sell and adjust your offering. You have no offering without the original store’s content.