• BadlyDrawnRhino @aussie.zone
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    16 days ago

    You’re not wrong, but if they win against AI, all artists will benefit because of the precedent that it would set.

    What I think will actually happen if this is looking to not go in the tech bros’ favour is that they’ll settle and make a potential deal with large copyright holders for ongoing usage, and that would screw individual artists.

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      16 days ago

      For artists able to afford a lawsuit against a multimillion company.

      No. It doesn’t benefit artists.

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        16 days ago

        But the large corporations are handling that side of things already. If the lawsuit goes in the favour of copyright holders, AI companies would in theory have to do something to avoid using copyrighted material, or pay for the usage. Of course, there’s every chance that they may end up avoiding using copyrighted material from anyone big enough to fight back, and just profit off of the works of artists without the resources to stop them doing so.

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              15 days ago

              No thanks. I care about real benefits and systemic changes. Not fucking petty vengeance.

              It’s literally worse than nothing because now all the time and effort used fighting for this was wasted.

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                15 days ago

                If artists get a break from competing against plagiarized AI slop, that’s not petty vengeance.

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                15 days ago

                If it ends the stupid AI bubble then I don’t think it qualifies as petty vengeance; that is some real change. There won’t be meaningful legislation to aid the day-to-day person against this garbage, no, but it’d still seriously reduce the degree to which this shit has invaded our lives.