> Being bad for artists and the environment is not illegal.
Yet we have copyright laws and environmental protection laws to protect both.
> If you look at a movie poster, your brain does not need to be released in the public domain. Even if you sketch it from memory.
Because I’m not a machine. I’m contrained by physics, whereas these models are not.
Copyright laws were made to protect artists from IP theft. If I make a sculpture, it’s not trivial to copy that and steal from me, so creating copyright laws to protect sculptors would be a hard sell.
But a painting, a book, a song, etc are easy to steal, especially with technology. Copying and selling someone else’s painting is similar to copying and selling someone else’s sculpture, yet the scale of theft is obviously different (mass producing sculptures is much harder than making unlimited copies of an mp3)
These AI models are a new type of theft, and likewise need new types of legal protections for artists.
