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by p_ing
379 days ago
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> Instead, they've become a brutal sledgehammer in which massive companies and rights holders can entrench their dominance and enrich themselves forever in a way that a smaller entity has almost no hope of competing with. In the case of AI, it can absolutely be both. Yes large companies/rights holders use it to hammer home their IP, but theft from smaller companies or even individuals by AI does happen, it's just a lot of money to litigate. I imagine my technical books have been scooped up by AI and while I'm not the publisher, it still impacts the number of cardboard boxes I can purchase with royalties. |
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On the one hand from a technical perspective it's probably some sort of theft, but I don't think we meaningfully have the vocabulary, technology, or laws to address what it does.
Is an AI making images in the style of Studio Ghibli problematic? Probably. But copyright law already allows for some level of permissionless use. If you take a photograph of something, you can sell it without needing to find the owner of the rights for the wineglass the model is holding.
If the result of an AIs work is a tiny percentage of the work of a thousand artists, musicians, or programmers, where's the threshold where it owes someone something.