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gencha@lemm.ee 2 months ago
So if I watch all Star Wars movies, and then get a crew together to make a couple of identical movies that were inspired by my earlier watching, and then sell the movies, then this is actually completely legal.
It doesn’t matter if they stole the source material. They are selling a machine that can create copyright infringements at a click of a button, and that’s a problem.
This is not the same as an artist looking at every single piece of art in the world and being able to replicate it to hang it in the living room. This is an army of artists that are enslaved by a single company to sell any copy of any artwork they want. That army works as long as you feed it electricity and free labor of actual artists.
Theft actually seems like a great word for what these scammers are doing.
If you run some open source model on your own machine, that’s a different story.
Isn’t your first point just false? Just because you drew a shows logo your self doesnt mean you aren’t profiting off their IP. They would surely have you taken down.
Now, if you changed things enough to be sufficiently different from their movie and its IP, they would have no grounds to do so. Just copying everything, however, would not fly.
We’re not just doing this for the money.
We’re doing it for a shitload of money!
I feel like you’re catching on.
Hackworth@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You’ve made a lot of confident assertions without supporting them. Just like an LLM! :)
fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
LLM are just text predictions based on what people would say in available digital works (like comments). Its honestly a fascinating glimpse in online sociology.
gencha@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Right. Who needs expert opinions if an LLM can produce similarly convincing garbage?