It's a decentralized backup, basically. Storage servers get seized and shut down all the time, and then people can rebuild from the torrents. The more people help to seed, the more likely it is that everything survives a takedown.
Defining "taken something behind a paywall and thus denied them revenue" as theft is the exact same argument movie studios make when you pirate a movie. Theft implies that the original is gone. If I steal your car, you don't have a car. If I pirate a movie, we both have that movie. As someone who supports piracy, I would be careful to conflate piracy with theft. I think that's the entire point the post is making.
Fuck AI slop. There's enough other arguments against it. It destroys the environment and artists' livelihoods. We can point that out without supporting corporate copyright talking points.
Not sure why they show it like that, it might be a design choice. Where I live, it's often put as decimals, with the last digit smaller than the others:
I have no actual stake in this discussion beyond the fun of arguing. I could continue, for example by pointing out that in the article about "Encyclopedia" you linked it says
There are some broad differences between encyclopedias and dictionaries. Most noticeably, encyclopedia articles are longer, fuller and more thorough than entries in most general-purpose dictionaries.[3][20] There are differences in content as well. Generally speaking, dictionaries provide linguistic information about words themselves, while encyclopedias focus more on the things for which those words stand.[6][7][8][9]
But I get the feeling you're taking this too seriously, and I'm not enjoying this anymore. So let's end it here, I hope you have a good day!
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There's no such thing, so does the power just not work? Or does the least bad dictator die? If so, hell yeah!