As Anthropic argued, it now “faces hundreds of billions of dollars in potential damages liability at trial in four months”
Well sure when you potentially violate almost every active copyright for multiple kinds of media, you end up potentially being liable for some wild damages. That’s the whole point.
Whether or not the work was sufficiently transformative will be an interesting question of course, but they should have known up front that this legal battle was a risk that their business could need to face.
Randomgal@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
I hope you realize they aren’t fighting for the rights of artists. They are fighting for their exclusive right to exploit artists.
kibiz0r@midwest.social 2 days ago
Absolutely. There’s not a good guy on either side here.
If AI vendors win, it’s basically this:
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p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
So, use and support open-source AI models.
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.
Randomgal@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
For artists able to afford a lawsuit against a multimillion company.
No. It doesn’t benefit artists.
p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
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.
Womble@piefed.world 1 day 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.
npdean@lemmy.today 2 days ago
Still better than blatant theft
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
Abolish the abomination known as intellectual property
I hope both sides straight up die as a result of this
The end of the intellectual “property” regime
making infinite things artificially scarce
cannot possibly come soon enough
What was “intellectual property” should instead be paid up front by the people who want it
the result should be entirely unburdened of any sort of property, royalty, strings and DRM
ready to be infinitely broadcast and available to all
We’re still going to want stuff and we’re going to pay for it
We’re not going to be vampirized by monstrous mice of the past
for 80 years after the author’s death
now I’m off to piss, in Walt Disney’s cryotank