Comment on IP can’t save you from AI

deliriousdreams@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The closest example to that given in the blog post is the writer’s guild strike:

  If we’re workers, then we derive our power from labor rights. The Writers Guild – the only creative workers in world history to have comprehensively beaten AI in their workplace – won their AI fight with a strike:

  pluralistic.net/…/how-the-writers-guild-sunk-ais-…

  The Hollywood guilds are able to pursue a limited form of “sectoral bargaining” (where all the workers in a field bargain with all its bosses) called “multi-employer bargaining.” Bosses hate sectoral bargaining, and in 1947 they got it banned outright through the Taft-Hartley Act.

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  • deliriousdreams@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I might have agreed with this before 9/11. But given how unlikely it is to get the court system to enforce privancy rights and laws we do have and how much our privacy rights have been hollowed out since then I can't really say that I see that being successful. especially not with the current administration.

    This may work in other parts of the world, but in the US I don't see it.

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    • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Better to push for something difficult that could actually help workers than something some corporate factions are ok with precisely because they know it won’t.

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      • deliriousdreams@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        If that's the case we should also fix copyright law, trademark law, etc. Because when you get right down to it, the reason things are as bad as they are is because we have let those laws (initially meant to protect against corporate/capitalism over reach like this) be turned against us and mangled by corps.

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