@mhoye I get the criticism but I think most people are angry for the wrong reasons and fail to understand that this won't impact the big, value-removing rentseekers but will rather result in everyone else being criminalized.

• Cuz if we apply the thinking if claiming an #AI can violate #Copyright, then we'd essentially call all #learning to be #derivative and thus everyone as perpetual debt peon to the publishers of schoolbooks or any material used to learn from...

We"d rather see society taxed by the #Copyrightmafia than #TechBros and #VC's to pay even a single cent to any "#CollectingSociety"...

A "basis trade" refers to a speculative trading strategy that aims to profit from the price difference, or #spread, b/w a UST and a related #derivative or instrument, such as UST futures contracts or interest rate #swaps.