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Spotify just changed their TOS, giving them unprecedented rights to create "derivative works" from audiobooks (storyfair.net)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by gedaliyah to c/technology
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They frame it as though it's for user content, more likely it's to train AI, but in fact it gives them the right to do almost anything they want - up to (but not including) stealing the content outright.

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

What about when a talented comedian speaks in the voice of someone else? Should we just write a law that humans are allowed to do it, but machines aren’t?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Tell me you don't understand the difference between human creative work and """AI""" work without telling me you don't understand the difference between human creative work and """AI""" work

[–] afraid_of_zombies 2 points 10 months ago

I don't. What exactly is the difference between me making a remix of someone's voice using software I don't understand and me telling software I don't understand to doing that slightly more?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

There is no difference. My work involves tools, be they hammers or ML models.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

name, image, and likeness can be trademarked.