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0 pointsACCount377mo ago0 comments

Lawyers of all the most beloved companies - Disney, New York Times, book publishers, music publishers and more - are now engaged in court battles, trying to sue all kinds of AI companies for "copyright infringement".

So far, case law is shaping up towards "nope, AI training is fair use". As it well should.

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_DeadFred_7mo ago

If your product wouldn't exist without inputting someone else's product, it is derivative of that someone else's product. This isn't a human learning. This is a corporate, for profit product, it is derivative, and violates copyright.

ACCount37OP7mo ago

That's not the standard we hold "human generated" media to. Not even "mockbusters" are illegal under copyright law. Nothing is new and everything is a remix. And I see no reason to make an exception for AI.

Copyright law is a disgrace, and copyright should be cut down massively - not made into an even more far-reaching anti-freedom abomination than it already is.

jacquesm7mo ago

> Nothing is new and everything is a remix.

This is absolutely not true.

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