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Engineers, well companies, created an entire industry without any regards for how that might affect artists... again. Musicians are still being screwed over be
by mrweasel 3y ago
Engineers, well companies, created an entire industry without any regards for how that might affect artists... again.
Musicians are still being screwed over because engineers wanted change how music is distributed. The goals are noble enough, just as with the music, but large corporations inserted themselves in the middle to capitalize on the work of the artists. I can't fault artists teaming up with lawyers again in an attempt to be paid for their work. It's didn't really work out for the music industry, but hey, what can they do?
As engineer we clearly aren't on the side of the artists, we help companies in the middle, not the artists. When developers created ChatGPT, or Stable Diffusion, did anyone of the developers insist on building in licens tracking, to ensure that only work in the public domain or under appropriate licenses was used, or at least tracked?
We're once again trying to build a new industry, but we don't care how that might affect others. It's dumb, it's not like there wasn't enough publicly available material, it's just that it's cheaper to ignore licensing.
- ronsor 3y agoMusicians were always screwed over by the music industry, not engineers.
- Filligree 3y agoHang on. Imagine that these image generators were based entirely on public imagery, but work equally well. Clearly that would clarify the legal situation, and it’d be a lot harder to ban it. But would that help artists? If so, how?