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OpenAI Pleads That It Can’t Make Money Without Using Copyrighted Materials for Free (futurism.com)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

I feel we need a term for "copyright bros".

The more important point is that social media companies can claim to OWN all the content needed to train AI. Same for image sites. That means they get to own the AI models. That means the models will never be free. Which means they control the "means of generation". That means that forever and ever and ever most human labour will be worth nothing while we can't even legally use this power. Double fucked.

YOU the user/product will not gain anything with this copyright strongmanning.

And to the argument itself: Just because AI is better at learning from existing works, faster, more complete, better memory, doesn't meant that it's fundamentally different than humans learning from artwork. Almost EVERY artist arguing for this is stealing themselves since they learned and was inspired by existing works.

But I guess the worst possible outcome is inevitable now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And to the argument itself: Just because AI is better at learning from existing works, faster, more complete, better memory, doesn’t meant that it’s fundamentally different than humans learning from artwork. Almost EVERY artist arguing for this is stealing themselves since they learned and was inspired by existing works.

Tell me you're not an artist without telling me you're not an artist

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Well lol I'm talking about "meaningless" art but that is 99% of "art" before AI.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Your second to last paragraph nailed it.