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Comment on AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified

BadlyDrawnRhino@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨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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Randomgal@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
For artists able to afford a lawsuit against a multimillion company.

No. It doesn’t benefit artists.

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- BadlyDrawnRhino@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨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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  - Powderhorn@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Still, artists will see nothing.
    
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    floofloof@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    If artists see generative AI companies going bust, that will be something.
    
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p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

all artists will benefit because of the precedent that it would set.

No, these protections exist to maintain profits of large corporations. Copyright, patents, and intellectual rights were created under the false pretense that it “protects the little person”, but these are lies told by the rich and powerful to keep themselves rich and powerful. Time and time again, we have seen how broken the patent system is, how it is impossible to not step on musical copyright, how Disney has extended copyrights to forever, and how the megacorporations have way more money than everybody else to defend those copyrights and patents. These people are not your friend, and their legal protections are not for you.

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Womble@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
It wont do anythign of the sort. Even if you accept the premise that somehow artists are being exploited from learning from their previous works, all that will happen is the AI companies will shift out of America to a juristiction that doesnt value extracting rents from IP above all else.

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