Copyright law sucks. "Fair use" is rarely applied in practice (see how YouTube enforces copyright, for example). Copyright terms are wayyy too long, and those w

Copyright law sucks. "Fair use" is rarely applied in practice (see how YouTube enforces copyright, for example). Copyright terms are wayyy too long, and those with deep pockets have a significant advantage when protecting their copyright. Having said all that, I don't buy the framing of "big bad creators vs. UwU small bean AI companies" that this article puts forward[1]. For example, OpenAI is Microsoft as far as I'm concerned. And a lot of the training data came from small-time creators on sites like Deviant Art, not from "The Disney Vault", because the former is publicly accessible while the latter is not. Meanwhile, the first movers in AI are already "salting the earth" for any AI newcomers since AI content is now flooding the internet and is inferior for training. [1] > Last month, it published an FTC “staff report” about “AI and Creative Fields,” based on a roundtable they held with a ridiculously one-sided panel of folks from the creative industries, who more or less all agreed that everyone should be forced to give them money at every opportunity.