> Wondering if it's legal to use characters you don't have rights to. (how do you justify possible IP infringement) IP law tends to be "richer party wins". The

> Wondering if it's legal to use characters you don't have rights to. (how do you justify possible IP infringement) IP law tends to be "richer party wins". There's going to be a bunch of huge fights over this, as both individual artists and content megacorps are furious about this copyright infringment, but OpenAI and friends will get the "we're a hundred-billion-dollar company, we can buy our own legislation" treatment. e.g. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/dec/17/uk-proposes-letting-tech-firms-use-copyrighted-work-to-train-ai https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/dec/17/uk-propos... a straightforward nationalisation of all UK IP so that it can be instantly given away for free to US megacorps.