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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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[–] TwilightVulpine 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I imagine that if AI devs didn't sneak around copying people's works in bulk but instead asked for permission or paid for a license, artists wouldn't hate it like they do now.

[–] MalachaiConstant 6 points 10 months ago

My gut feeling says that's not entirely true. Generative AI has so many qualities that make could it offensive to so many people, I think we were going to see a pushback from artists regardless. The devs' shitty training practices just happened to give the artists a particularly strong case for grievances.

[–] afraid_of_zombies 1 points 10 months ago

Yeah artists were fine with publishing companies doing this since the dawn of literacy but this time it is completely different