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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The comic's suit questions if AI models can function without training themselves on protected works.

I doubt a human can compose chat responses without having trained at school on previous language. Copyright favors the rich and powerful, established like Silverman.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Selectively breaking copyright laws specifically to allow AI models also favors the rich, unfortunately. These models will make a very small group of rich people even richer while putting out of work the millions of creators whose works wore stolen to train the models.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To be fair, in most Capitalist nations, literally any decision made will favor the rich because the system is automatically geared that way. I don't think the solution is trying to come up with more jobs or prevent new technology from emerging in order to preserve existing jobs, but rather to retool our social structure so that people are able to survive while working less.

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

Oh no, rich assholes who continuously lobby for strict copyright and patent laws in order to suffocate competition might find themselves restricted by it for once. Quick, find me the world's smallest violin!

No, if you want AI to emerge, argue in favor of relaxing copyright law in all cases, not specifically to allow AI to copyright launder other peoples' works.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We are overdue for strengthening fair use.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Indeed.

Possession of a copyrighted work should never be considered infringement. The fact that a book is floating around in a mind must not be considered infringement no matter how it got into that mind, nor whether that mind is biological or artificially constructed.

Until that work comes back out of that mind in substantially identical form as to how it went in, it cannot be considered copyright infringement.