It’s already illegal for you to sing a copyrighted song in front of a group of people. If you hear a Taylor Swift song and memorize it, then later sing it in fr

It’s already illegal for you to sing a copyrighted song in front of a group of people. If you hear a Taylor Swift song and memorize it, then later sing it in front of a sufficiently large group of people I believe that is illegal. Now I don’t actually think intellectual property restrictions are good. I think they are quite harmful. But as long as they exist I don’t like the idea of big companies trampling over the IP rights of small creators. People currently depends on those rights. One of the reasons I want to see a large public dataset of explicitly licensed images is that if OpenAI is required to do this, they would have to spearhead a new culture of openness to get enough data. Imagine if they encouraged twitter to add a license option and then simultaneously encouraged users to add alt text and to license images with an open license! This would be a boon to people with sight disability who require alt text and it would expand a visual commons of openly licensed data. Instead we have one company making a big dataset full of copyrighted images (sharing something online does not waive copyright). I think a model based on explicit consent is healthier for everyone in society.