Meta wins artificial intelligence copyright case in blow to authors

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• mienshao@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  American law has become a literal fucking joke (IAAL). I could’ve guessed the could get the outcome of this case without any facts: the huge corporation wins over authors. American law is no longer capable of holding major corporations to account, so we need a new legal system—one that’s actually functional.

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  • drmoose@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    But the actual process of an AI system distilling from thousands of written works to be able to produce its own passages of text qualified as “fair use” under U.S. copyright law because it was “quintessentially transformative,” Alsup wrote.

    Thats the actual argument and the judge is right here. LLMs are transformative in every sense of the word. The technology is even called “transformers”.

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    • Leesi@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Fallacious argument.

      Something that can’t generate wine glass full to the brim without a band-aid fix is far from “transformative.” Even if it were:

      Only the owner of copyright in a work has the right to prepare, or to authorize someone else to create, a new version of that work. ^1

      More like obfuscated plagiarism.

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    • actionjbone@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Yeah, well, I could call my dick the Magnum Opus but that wouldn’t make it two feet long.

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  • MCasq_qsaCJ_234@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Do you want a new constitution in the United States?

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    • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      If a pact between enslavers is a complete failure, why not just make another one? \s

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_religion

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    • DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Could start with a guillotine for corporations and see how that goes.

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• technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Wow you mean the state serves capital? I thought for sure it would once again fight for the rights of struggling artists. \s \s \s

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• DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’m torrenting movies in order to develop my own AI, your honor. I rest my case. 😎

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  • drmoose@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Someone didn’t read the article

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    • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I actually did. The judge made up some BS “your arguments were bad” ruling. Activist judges. This is selective enforcement so that the plebs cannot legally pirate while corporate has free reign.

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  • Natanael@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The judge explicitly did not allow piracy here. Only legally acquired media can be used for training.

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• ieatpwns@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’d feel better about this if meta actually produced anything of value and I was able to also violate their copyright, but they’re just fucking leeches bro

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• 3dcadmin@lemmy.relayeasy.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The tinternet is getting like the Wild West again, circa early 200s and Napster and all that… This will pass, dunno when or how but it will pass, or perhaps we will start getting everything paywalled so LLMs can’t just scrape data without some sort of payment. I don’t actually know many people that like AI nowadays

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  • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s sort of like that… Except instead of a bunch of regular people sharing music, it’s a bunch of capitalists stealing all art for profit. Ofc the major difference is that’s it’s legal for capital.

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  • rikudou@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    That’s probably your social bubble. My company is currently deepthroating everything that has AI in its name. I jokingly mentioned they should rename the company to Jira&AI, the joke was not well received.

    Anyway, most people I know (including me) are somewhere in the middle - not quite fans in the traditional sense, but definitely not disliking AI.

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    • 3dcadmin@lemmy.relayeasy.com ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It is, but as many are artists in some ways it is that they dislike the most

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