It’s very interesting to me that copyright lawsuits in the US may end up resulting in a lot of content restrictions which have some similarity to Chinese censor

It’s very interesting to me that copyright lawsuits in the US may end up resulting in a lot of content restrictions which have some similarity to Chinese censorship laws. Zooming in they are different of course, but it is certainly a reflection of values. In the US it is very possible we could end up with a neutered ChatGPT due to ongoing copyright suits. OpenAI easily can’t prevent its chatbot from regurgitating copyrighted material. Although not the same, it is reminiscent of Chinese censorship of political topics, since it’s also not possible to prevent the bot from authoring a pro-democracy screed. In the same way the West doesn’t mind ChatGPT’s political musings, China is unlikely to care about any potential copyright infringements. Maybe it’s obvious, but I find it interesting how a chatbot which is trained on all online text pushes the boundaries of societies differently. In China, it’s you can’t say a thing because it is transgressive but in the West it’s you can’t say a thing because it has been privatized. And in the West, copyright is again coming for free expression by suing IA. Perhaps the logical conclusion of this is the US National Anthem somehow being copyrighted and the only place it can be legally played is in China.