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0 pointsForgeties793mo ago0 comments

As a professional cinematographer/photographer I am incredibly uncomfortable with people using my art without my permission for unknown ends. Doubly so when it’s venture backed private companies stealing from millions of people like me as they make vague promises about the capabilities of their software trained on my work. It doesn’t take much to understand why that makes me uncomfortable and why I feel I am entitled to saying “no.” Legally I am entitled to that in so many cases, yet for some reason Altman et al get to skip that hurdle. Why?

How do you feel about entities taking your face off of your personal website and plastering it on billboards smiling happily next to their product? What if it’s for a gun? Or condoms? Or a candidate for a party you don’t support? Pick your own example if none of those bother you. I’m sure there are things you do not want to be associated with/don’t want to contribute to.

At the end of the day it’s very gross when we are exploited without our knowledge or permission so rich groups can get richer. I don’t care if my visual work is only partially contributing to some mashed up final image. I don’t want to be a part of it.

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CamperBob23mo ago

The day after I first heard about the Internet, back in 1990-whatever, it occurred to me that I probably shouldn't upload anything to the Internet that I didn't want to see on the front page of tomorrow's newspaper.

Apart from the 'newspaper' anachronism, that's pretty much still my take.

Sorry, but you'll just have to deal with it and get over it.

Forgeties79OP3mo ago

> Sorry, but you'll just have to deal with it and get over it.

You were fine until this bit.

onraglanroad3mo ago

They're still fine because they're right.

You got to play the copyright game when the big corps were on your side.

Now they're on the other side. Deal with it and get over it.

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smileson23mo ago

You should be proud your work will now be distilled enterally and an aspect of your work will forever influence the world

Forgeties79OP3mo ago

I’m not

vintermann3mo ago

> How do you feel about entities taking your face off of your personal website and plastering it on billboards smiling happily next to their product?

That would be misrepresentation. Even Stallman isn't OK with that. You can take one of his opinion pieces and publish it as your own. Or you can attach his name to it.

However, if you're editing it and releasing it under his name, clearly you're simply lying, and nobody is OK with that. People have the right to be recognized as authors of things they did author (if they so desire) and they have a right to NOT be associated with things they didn't.

> At the end of the day it’s very gross when we are exploited without our knowledge or permission so rich groups can get richer.

The second part is the entirety of the problem. If I'm "exploited" in a way where I can't even notice it, and I'm not worse off for it, how is it even exploitation? But people amassing great power is a problem no matter if they do it with "legitimate" means or not.

Forgeties79OP3mo ago

If somebody is stealing from your bank account every week and you just don’t notice it, are you not being stolen from? Has nobody stolen your credit card and used it until the moment you notice the charges. I don’t really think we can go “if a tree fall in the forest and nobody is around to hear it…” about this.

Stallman has his opinions on software, I have my opinions on my visual work. I don’t get really how that applies here or why that settles this matter.

vintermann3mo ago

If someone steals from my bank account I certainly CAN notice it even if I don't immediately, and I'm certainly worse off.

That's such a bad straw man I wonder if you're really supporting the position you claim to be supporting. Maybe you're just trying to give it a bad name.

Your opinion isn't on visual work, but visual property. You don't demand to be paid for your work - your labor. Rather you traded that for the dream of being paid rent on a capital object, in perpetuity (or close enough). Artists lost to the power-mongers when we bit at that bait.

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CamperBob23mo ago

Apart from the 'newspaper' anachronism, that's pretty much still my take.

Sorry, but you'll just have to deal with it and get over it.

Forgeties79OP3mo ago

> Sorry, but you'll just have to deal with it and get over it.

You were fine until this bit.

onraglanroad3mo ago

They're still fine because they're right.

You got to play the copyright game when the big corps were on your side.

Now they're on the other side. Deal with it and get over it.

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smileson23mo ago

You should be proud your work will now be distilled enterally and an aspect of your work will forever influence the world

Forgeties79OP3mo ago

I’m not

vintermann3mo ago

> How do you feel about entities taking your face off of your personal website and plastering it on billboards smiling happily next to their product?

That would be misrepresentation. Even Stallman isn't OK with that. You can take one of his opinion pieces and publish it as your own. Or you can attach his name to it.

> At the end of the day it’s very gross when we are exploited without our knowledge or permission so rich groups can get richer.

Forgeties79OP3mo ago

Stallman has his opinions on software, I have my opinions on my visual work. I don’t get really how that applies here or why that settles this matter.

vintermann3mo ago

If someone steals from my bank account I certainly CAN notice it even if I don't immediately, and I'm certainly worse off.

That's such a bad straw man I wonder if you're really supporting the position you claim to be supporting. Maybe you're just trying to give it a bad name.

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