Comment on The AI-focused COPIED Act would make removing digital watermarks illegal
cyd@lemmy.world 2 months ago
If this passes, this would have the perverse incentive of making China and the Middle East the leading suppliers of open source / open weight AI models…
Melt@lemm.ee 2 months ago
China would be the world leader in making AI model trained on copyrighted content
catloaf@lemm.ee 2 months ago
And as the vast majority of content is not licensed for AI model training, they would have an immensely larger dataset to train on.
Petter1@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Well, there is also Europe ✌🏻
General_Effort@lemmy.world 2 months ago
No. In the EU, the lobbyists have already won. Major countries, like Germany, have always had very conservative copyright laws. I believe it’s one reason why their cultures are losing so hard.
Surprisingly, Japan has adopted a very sensible law on AI training.
afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I am just sitting here with my eye twitching thinking of all the code I have had to deal with from German companies over the years.