AI and Copyright: Expanding Copyright Hurts Everyone—Here’s What to Do Instead
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You shouldn't need a permission slip to read a webpage–whether you do it with your own eyes, or use software to help. AI is a category of general-purpose tools with myriad beneficial uses. Requiring developers to license the materials needed to create this technology threatens the development of...
  • MoogleMaestro@lemmy.zipEnglish
    10·
    3 days ago

    I love how copyright isn’t a problem when it’s the little people having it leveraged against them by megacorps.

    But now that the little people are leveraging it against the megacorps – oh, I guess copyright was a mistake now. It wasn’t meant to protect the people, it was meant to protect the richest.

    Disgraceful. I love the EFF but this is a huge miss. Copyright is the only thing protecting creatives from a corporate driven slop fest, and consumers would be hurt by this too with lower quality higher quantity trash.

    • FaceDeer@fedia.io
      2·
      2 days ago

      EFF has always been opposed to the expansion of copyright, regardless of the “size” of the copyright holders involved.

    • curiousaur@reddthat.comEnglish
      22·
      2 days ago

      The cats out of the bag. If the US enforces stricter copyright then China just wins. There’s is no stopping the slop, there’s no stopping what’s coming.

      • MoogleMaestro@lemmy.zipEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        Yeah, but we also lose to china by not having child labor. We want to lose battles that are against our morals – that’s what it means to have morals. Besides, it would also be illegal to use chinese ai models in the states that infringe copyright.