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by freejazz 371 days ago
> If nothing else, I hope AI finally forces a re-evaluation of copyright and patent law.

Is AI even controversial in the patent space? I do not think so. I'm not aware of any AI patent cases that destroy the business model like the AI companies claim licensing copyrighted media would require.

>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.

I don't know why you equate the two. They are completely different paradigms, protecting completely different things, completely different ways. Is the problem competing with Disney now? Didn't seem to be a problem for Mr. Beast...