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[–] [email protected] 117 points 11 months ago (7 children)

Make the AI folks use public domain training data or nothing and maybe we'll see the "life of the author + 75 years" bullshit get scaled back to something reasonable.

[–] [email protected] 70 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Exactly this. I can't believe how many comments I've read accusing the AI critics of holding back progress with regressive copyright ideas. No, the regressive ideas are already there, codified as law, holding the rest of us back. Holding AI companies accountable for their copyright violations will force them to either push to reform the copyright system completely, or to change their practices for the better (free software, free datasets, non-commercial uses, real non-profit orgs for the advancement of the technology). Either way we have a lot to gain by forcing them to improve the situation. Giving AI companies a free pass on the copyright system will waste what is probably the best opportunity we have ever had to improve the copyright system.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

They let the Mouse die finally, maybe there is hope for change.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The Mouse isn't dead, he is risen anew. Freed from the shackles of his creators, he is now more powerful than he could ever have hoped to be before. The mighty tremble beneath the footsteps of old Steamboat Willie. He is a living sign of a new era, one in which it is possible to strike back against his old captors.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

What a great take!

I guess any way you look at it, the Mouse isn't dead dead.

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