Comment on AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified

• Rivalarrival@lemmy.today ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’m the troll?

  Everything here is about American copyright law, which is explicitly justified within our constitution, and has been horribly abused since Disney effectively set the definition of “temporary” to mean “forever, minus a day”.

  Yet you want to stick your special little foreign nose in here, and express your special little foreign opinion on how those copyright bandits deserve to permanently lock cultural iconography behind a fucking paywall.

  You don’t even seem to be realizing that you’re slurping on Corporate America’s asshole; that the special little opinions you are expressing are shared and promoted by our Head Cheetoh in Charge. In your zeal for shutting down AI slop, you are supporting the MPAA, RIAA, Disney, and Donald J. Trump.

  Pull your head out of your ass and critically evaluate the situation. Start with the fundamental purpose of copyright law, and who it is ultimately supposed to benefit. It’s not the content creators. It is not the publishers. It is not the various lobbying associations.

  The principal beneficiary of copyright law is supposed to be the general public.

  We are asked to temporarily give up our public domain rights and allow content creators a brief period of exclusive control. This is in order to convince content creators to continue creating, rather than building an entire industry devoted to resting on their laurels.

  The AI industry is using copyright law the same way that the general public was always supposed to be able to. You are siding with the abusers.

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