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AI hucksters vs. the Copyright Cartel. When two evil villains fight, who do you root for? Here's hoping they somehow destroy each other.
by ryandrake 2y ago
AI hucksters vs. the Copyright Cartel. When two evil villains fight, who do you root for? Here's hoping they somehow destroy each other.
- thomastjeffery 2y agoI can only root for them both to lose. Letting Meta launder copyrighted works to make billions, while threatening the rest of us over the most trivial derivative work, sounds like the worst outcome to me. Copyright is a mistake. It demands that we compete instead of collaborate. LLMs don't provide enough utility to deserve special treatment in these circumstances. If anyone can infringe copyright, then everyone should be able to.
- probably_wrong 2y agoYou can always root for the lawyers.
- pessimizer 2y agoLast time they fought, it was google vs. the publishers, and it resulted in the scanning and archiving of all of those books in the first place. Neither of them died, though, both parties just kept all the books from the public and used them for their own purposes, while normal people had to squirrel them away and trade them illegally. It's the Tech Cartels vs. the Copyright Trolls. It'll end up as a romance.
- akomtu 2y agoThe copyright cartel is going to lose because it represents the dying old world order of many competing enclaves. AI isn't just a sloppy text generator, it's the new ideology of forced uniformity that permits no boundaries. So no copyright cartels.