Pressure grows on artificial intelligence firms over the content used to train their products

‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says::Pressure grows on artificial intelligence firms over the content used to train their products

  • HelloThere@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    254·
    8 months ago

    I’m no fan of the current copyright law - the Statute of Anne was much better - but let’s not kid ourselves that some of the richest companies in the world have any desire what so ever to change it.

    • Gutless2615@ttrpg.networkEnglish
      1411·
      8 months ago

      My brother in Christ I’m begging you to look just a little bit into the history of copyright expansion.

        • Gutless2615@ttrpg.networkEnglish
          41·
          8 months ago

          I only discuss copyright on posts about AI copyright issues. Yes, brilliant observation. I also talk about privacy y issues on privacy relevant posts, labor issues on worker rights related articles and environmental justice on global warming pieces. Truly a brilliant and skewering observation. Youre a true internet private eye.

          Fair use and pushing back against (corporate serving) copyright maximalism is an issue I am passionate about and engage in. Is that a problem for you?

            • Gutless2615@ttrpg.networkEnglish
              92·
              8 months ago

              I am an attorney that has worked extensively in copyright and specifically fair use and the only interesting issue in copyright I feel like discussing is generative art — primarily because the discourse is getting overwhelmed by well meaning lefties and creators in my circles who are unfortunately carrying water for the same copyright maximalist arguments corporate IP holders have been marketing for years. We need more fair use, not less. Expanding copyright once again to cover training a model - which is what would be required because as is these models are not infringing on any existing copyright rights - would have disastrous results on small artists and creators, only surge to further enrich corporate IP hoarders that can handle the exploding court costs that will result from such an expansion.

              To be clear, I also am very concerned about the many externalities of generative AI. Labor, environmental, competition, national security, privacy — but we’re not going to copyright our way out of those problems.

                • Gutless2615@ttrpg.networkEnglish
                  5·
                  8 months ago

                  Yes, I have worked with small artists, creators, software engineers, game designers, YouTubers and podcasters. Among others. No, I won’t tell you who they are. No, I don’t care if you don’t believe me. These days it’s primarily privacy, to be fair, but yes, generative art and its intersection with copyright law is something I am passionate about. This isn’t the gotcha you think it is.

                  You write license agreements for your business partners. For most infringement you send a series of letters or try to interface with whatever cyberpunk dystopia bureaucratic machine is set up to handle DMCA with your platform of choice. Scraping otoh is something I advise to ignore. For those that are upset by scraping I would suggest that they can certainly use robots.txt to prevent future scraping but would also explain that their content isn’t getting stolen by OpenAI. What we’re seeing with generative AI is not an abuse of existing copyright, it’s something new, and I fundamentally don’t think more expanding copyright again is going to help.

                  Look, I’m no fan of Sam Altman. Fuck that guy. Fuck every billionaire. His crypto disaster is a privacy dystopic wet dream. I imagine you and I would probably agree a lot more than we disagree. The problem, as I see it, is that copyright has ALWAYS been a shit framework for small artists and creators. It’s an effective instrument to be abused by those with bottomless pockets. But it is fundamentally not suited to actually address the negative externalities we are all seeing with generative AI.