• njm1314@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    It’s amazing it’s even a fight that needs to be fought. It’s just blatant theft. What’s more it’s by their own rules as theft. A lot of us would like easier and less stringent copyright. Yet the governments of the world have spent the last 40 years making it ironclad and worldwide as much as they can. Now they want to just turn it off cuz their rich Bros say to?

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      There is plenty to dislike about AI, but theft is not really the problem. First, it isn’t actually theft as they are not depriving anyone of their property. It is called copyright infringement, which is a civil matter.

      Who do you think copyright laws are written for? If you said corporations then you would be right. If you thought individual artists then you have fallen for corporate propaganda.

      Corporations want this so bad. That is why it is happening and the law they use to bludgeon everyone with is suddenly not being applied. Movie studios want AI, music wants it, graphics want it, and everyone else wants it to cut labor costs as well.

      They are taking our entire culture, our art and sciences, cataloguing it all, and then charging us so they can feed it back to us with their slant on it. Monopoly of our humanity bought and sold by the most craven human beings to ever exist.

      This isn’t against copyright, this is the evolution of allowing our government to be bought and sold by corpo fucks. Now our children will be subjected to Holocaust denying AI history teachers brought to you by X. Every song, video, picture, and writing our culture has ever made will be twisted and sold back to us.

      We will quickly become a shadow of what we once were. The writing is already on the wall and it would take some pretty epic resistance to stop it

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      2 months ago

      My take is that if we already have to have copyright law, then we should use it as a tool to at least garnish how much value these AI companies get to siphon from actual working artists.

      Further, I’d be suspicious of the motives of anyone reallly rallying against copyright laws right now.

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        How about if it’s not for profit, then it is free to copy. Like some kid downloading a movie.

        The kid is never gonna sell that movie.

        If it’s for profit, then you have damages, which is usually what you would show in a civil court. The damages are profit made.

        But you’re still going to have problems with juristdictions where this won’t be enforced. (Like China.)

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    2 months ago

    Even if you convince western jurisdictions, China will still steal whatever and then make AI products they will offer to the west.