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Yup, though a lot of people are acting now as though every already-established principle of fair use needs to be revised suddenly by adding a bunch of "...but i
by xp84 3y ago
Yup, though a lot of people are acting now as though every already-established principle of fair use needs to be revised suddenly by adding a bunch of "...but if this is done by any form of AI, then it's copyright infringement."
A cover band who plays Beatles songs = great
An artist who paints you a picture in the style of so-and-so = great
An AI who is trained on Beatles songs and can write new ones = exploitative, stealing, etc.
An AI who paints you a picture in the style of so-and-so = get the pitchforks, Big Tech wants to kill art!
- blitzar 3y ago> A cover band who plays Beatles songs Has to pay the Beatles for the pleasure of doing so.
- whstl 3y agoThis discussion about art "in the style of" being stealing or exploitative hasn't started with AI. For quite some time there has been complaints of advertisements commissioning sound-alike tunes to avoid paying licensing. AI is only automating it and making it possible in an industrial scale.