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Microsoft director: AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'

190 points · 52 comments · jonbaer

hagbard_c · 1789852540 · focus · HN ↗
Here's a Bible verse this Microsoft individual should acquaint himself with:
<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/verse/en/Matthew%207%3A5" rel="nofollow">https://www.biblegateway.com/verse/en/Matthew%207%3A5
Whether religious or not, the verse applies to anyone and everyone making such statements from the position of companies like Microsoft. I'll quite the KJV version 'cause that one lends itself well to situations like these. Read it with a booming thunder-loaded voice:
And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?
Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
1. zugi · 1789853405 · focus · HN ↗
  By stealing text from the Bible rather than using your own words, you've just committed labor theft!
  Of course that accusation sounds outrageous as it should. All human knowledge and progress has come by building on the works of those who came before us, as it should. Turning this on its head and calling it "theft of labor" is insane, as is asking others not to build on today's knowledge.
  Or to steal some more human labor: "If I have seen further than others, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."

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