politics, AI, copyright
People have been clamoring for copyright reforms and/or abolishment for decades to deal with the many injustices that people are frequently faced with, and absolutely nothing is happening.
Meanwhile a bunch of AI companies lobby for being basically allowed to legally ignore copyright so that they can exploit other people's work for free, and within a few years the UK government is tabling plans to make that happen.
When will people finally stop believing the myth that copyright has anything to do with "protecting artists"?
politics, AI, copyright
@joepie91 the problem with using copyright against AI training is that it's exactly what Big AI is counting on. OpenAI and Google already get some sweet content deals (Google is already effectively the only search engine with access to Reddit), and any lawsuits will ultimately benefit them - they'll get a settlement or damages to pay, they'll get out of it, and it will limit their competition. Big Code Project, gathering together terabytes of code for model training, includes code that was published without a license attached (no rights given!), but excludes code that was published under copyleft licenses - they're more scared of having to publish the generated code
politics, AI, copyright
@joepie91 I mean, yes, this is just a patch applied to benefit one capital over another, and not actual authors over capital. It makes some sense and might benefit people more than not in the end, but it is made for capital