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It's really easy, "unstoppable" even, to send pirated music files over the internet. It sure was fun to have free music. And yet Napster was sued out of existen
by TillE 3y ago
It's really easy, "unstoppable" even, to send pirated music files over the internet. It sure was fun to have free music. And yet Napster was sued out of existence, and now the vast majority of people who listen to music pay for it.
And it's way harder to run a pirate AI datacenter than it is to set up a torrent tracker.
Laws will be written, license fees will be paid, and AI will continue to develop but with proper compensation.
- GaggiX 3y ago>now the vast majority of people who listen to music pay for it. Well not really, it's just freely available online.
- ryanSrich 3y agoThe vast majority listen to ads in order to listen to it for free. Artists make almost nothing on streaming. It completely changed history.
- scheeseman486 3y agoThe problem here is that the law has already been written to some extent. Google Books is the most relevant case you can point to that set precedent over what constitutes fair use of copyrighted material and the extent the transformation of those works can be commercially exploited. In that case works were copied without permission with small chunks of those works redistributed verbatim, and that was when it was working as designed. There's an argument to be made that this AI generator stuff is actually less egregious.