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0 pointsakhosravian2y ago0 comments

While there are no IP protections for “style” there are certainly elements that are covered. Particular colors be trademarked, characters can be copyrighted separately from the works they appear in, design patents are a thing that cover more than most folks realize.

I don’t think any but the most copyleft segment of society thinks it would be reasonable for a generative AI trained on exactly one persons work to be used for profit by someone else.

An AI trained on two or ten people’s work probably feels the same for most folks, but what about when it’s thousands or millions? What if instead of one persons work it is the works held in copyright by an entity like Getty Images?

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regularfry2y ago

> I don’t think any but the most copyleft segment of society thinks it would be reasonable for a generative AI trained on exactly one persons work to be used for profit by someone else.

Why do you think that? It doesn't seem obvious to me at all.

versteegen2y ago

Well imagine you created a novel generator that just cut-and-paste whole sentences from the Harry Potter books to create a new Harry Potter, and posted it online. Now, as long as this was done as a just a bit of fun, non-commercial, I feel like that likely should be allowed as fair use (whether it actually would is not the point), though borderline. If you tried to sell it, definitely too far.

So I think "used for profit" is quite key.

But another example is someone writing and selling a reference guide to Tolkien's mythos that catalogues the content of his novels. And we would say that should be allowed, though that could be taken too far as well, for example it could duplicate the material in the appendices to LoTR.

gmerc2y ago

You can make trademarked colors with microsoft paint…

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