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Everybody’s too concerned about copyright for training data, no one’s concerned enough that the outputs are considered non-copyrightable. $50mm pre-product val
by throwaway9274 3y ago
Everybody’s too concerned about copyright for training data, no one’s concerned enough that the outputs are considered non-copyrightable.
$50mm pre-product valuations for startups producing 3D assets for games via prompting a foundation model.
Zero due diligence on the U.S. copyright office’s stance that every asset those companies generate will be open to reuse.
- circuit10 3y agoI assume any tweaks to the assets and the way they’re put together will still be copyrightable though
- throwaway9274 3y agoMaybe, depends on the threshold for human creativity, which is still in flux. You could copyright the underlying character maybe. But its a major headache for these companies and a symptom of the broader fact that copyright needs legislative reform, not attempting to shoehorn AI into the current law.