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Drewelite@lemmynsfw.com 10 months agoYikes. We’re at a complicated crossroads where discussion around copyright is as important as ever. You’re against someone choosing a path that will empower a major corporation, so you want to… *checks notes* strengthen copyright law? You should work for Disney.
Copyright was meant to be for 30 years. It’s corporate greed that push that number up. Every version of consciousness requires the intake of ideas and transforming them. A higher quality and wider variety of ideas the better. I’m all for creators having time to profit from their works. But fighting for more restrictive copyright law is a fight against humanity and A.I… You’re going to lose that fight.
aldalire@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Thank you for your comment, I think there’s a meaningful discussion to be had here. US “law” is meant to legitimize the ruling class and serve to protect their interests. In this case, copyright law, meant to legitimize the control of US media corporations on intellectual property, is actually hindering their reach and access to materials that can train their AI models. In any case, this is going against the spirit of what the law is made for, which is to protect corporations.
Law isn’t made from a vacuum. Law is written by the ruling class passed and minted by the ruling class. I did not remember voting for any copyright law (the US is not a direct democracy), and therefore the law is imposed to us.
So, you are correct, we are at a crossroads. More specifically, corporations are. Will they lobby to be an exception to copyright laws so they can continue training on copyrighted data, or will they weaken copyright laws enough so that their actions will be deemed legal?
My take is that since their models are trained from copyrighted data made by the people, the access to their models and its predictions / inferences must also be made accessible to the people. Of course they will not do that, so they will fight the hardest to be able to train on the most amount of public data while giving the fruits of that data only to the paying customers. The classic “socialize the losses, privatize the gains” trick that capitalists use.
anyway fuck capitalism fuck AI fuck this rant I’m high af