Comment on The AI-focused COPIED Act would make removing digital watermarks illegal

• v_krishna@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This regulation (and similar being proposed in California) would not be applied retroactively.

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  • just_another_person@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Never mentioned any sort of retroactive measures.

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    • snooggums@midwest.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Since no retroactive measures are mentioned, the companies that already scraped the web won’t be stopped from continuing to use the AI models already trained on that data, but anyone else would be stopped by the law.

      It is like making it illegal to rob banks after someone already robbed all the banks and letting them keep all the money.

      The law could have made it illegal for use of models trained on the copyrighted materials without permission instead of targeting the process for collecting it.

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