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Comment on Visual artists fight back against AI companies for repurposing their work

Even_Adder@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

AI don’t participate in culture, but the people who make them do, and fair use protects their right to reverse engineering, indexing, and other forms of analysis that create new knowledge about works or bodies of works. These models consist only of original analysis of the training data in comparison with one another, which were selected by their creators based on their learned experiences and preferences.

These are tools made by humans for humans to use, we are in control of the input and the output. Every time you see generative AI output, it’s because someone out there made the decision to share. Restricting these models is restricting the rights of the people that use and train them. Mega-corporations will have their own models, no matter the price. What we say and do here will only affect our ability to catch up and stay competitive.

I recommend reading this article by Kit Walsh, who’s a senior staff attorney at the EFF. The EFF is a digital rights group who most recently won a historic case: border guards now need a warrant to search your phone. I’d like to hear your thoughts.

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treefrog@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Alright, the article convinced me of the legal argument.

Morally and ethically I think my main issue is knowing that for profit corporations will be putting many of my flesh and blood favorite artists out of work without any sort of compensation.

Really we just need UBI. I think the issue is less about plagiarism and more about livelihood for most people worried about it.

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- Even_Adder@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Capitalism trained us to see anything we do as a way to amass wealth. As more things approach post-scarcity, it’s going to drive more people to enforce artificial scarcity to keep prices up, like jewelers do with diamonds.
  
  It’s not all downsides. There are plenty of free and open source generative models that anyone can use. Ordinary people have new ways to express themselves creatively, learn new things, and entertain themselves, and improve their lives. We’re already connecting with each other in ways we couldn’t before, and inspiring one another to get out and start creating.
  
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treefrog@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I’ll read the links.

Personally, I don’t have an issue with people copyrighting things they use an AI to make. I’ll let you know if my opinion changes on fair use of already copyrighted work being used to make (commercial) AI.

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