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It's all made from our data, anyway, so it should be ours to use as we want

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[–] patatahooligan 3 points 14 hours ago (21 children)

the AI companies have a pretty good defense in the fact analyzing publicly viewable information is a pretty deep rooted freedom that provides a lot of positives to the world

They are not "analyzing" the data. They are feeding it into a regurgitating mechanism. There's a big difference. Their defense is only "good" because AI is being misrepresented and misunderstood.

I agree that we shouldn't strive for more strict copyright. We should fight for a much more liberal system. But as long as everyone else has to live by the current copyright laws, we should not let AI companies get away with what they're doing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago (10 children)

I've never really delved into the AI copyright debate before, so forgive my ignorance on the matter.

I don't understand how an AI reading a bunch of books and rearranging some of those words into a new story, is different to a human author reading a bunch of books and rearranging those words into a new story.

Most AI art I've seen has been... Unique, to say the least. To me, they tend to be different enough to the art they were trained in to not be a direct ripoff, so personally I don't see the issue.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

The for-profit large-scale media blender is the problem. When it's a human writing Harry Potter fan fiction, it's fine. When a company sells a tool for you to write thousands of trash "books" for profit, it's a problem.

[–] ClamDrinker 2 points 11 hours ago

Which is why the technology itself isn't the issue, but those willing to use it in unethical ways. AI is an invaluable tool to those with limited means, unlike big corporations.

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