FatCrab

@FatCrab@lemmy.one

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Mass theft’: Thousands of artists call for AI art auction to be cancelled⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It could of course go up to the scotus and effectively a new right be legislated from the bench, but it is unlikely and the nature of these models in combination with what is considered a copy under the rubric copyright in the US has operated effectively forever means that merely training and deploying a model is almost certainly not copyright infringement. This is pretty common consensus among IP attorneys.

  That said, a lot of other very obvious infringement in coming out in discovery in many of these cases. Like torrenting all the training data. THAT is absolutely an infringement but is effectively unrelated to the question of whether lawfully accessed content being used as training data retroactively makes its access unlawful (it really almost certainly doesn’t).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Mass theft’: Thousands of artists call for AI art auction to be cancelled⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Even in your latter paragraph, it wouldn’t be an infringement. Assuming the art was lawfully accessed in the first place, like by clicking a link to a publicly shared portfolio, no copy is being encoded into the model. There is currently no intellectual property right invoked merely by training a model-- if people want there to be, and it isn’t an unreasonable thing to want (though I don’t agree it’s good policy), then a new type of intellectual property right will need to be created.

  What’s actually baffling to me is that these pieces presumably are all effectively public domain as they’re authored by AI. And they’re clearly digital in nature, so wtf are people actually buying?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An independent voter explains why they chose a moronic, oligarcho-fascist demagogue over Joe Biden (c. November 2020) [Day 58]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s been defined a few ways. Based on registration and also self reporting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An independent voter explains why they chose a moronic, oligarcho-fascist demagogue over Joe Biden (c. November 2020) [Day 58]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s because in practical reality, there are no independent voters. The vastly overwhelming majority of independents actually vote consistently along party lines.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon wants to go to Nuuk⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, very interesting. Appreciate the insights!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon wants to go to Nuuk⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yea, but Greenland is also autonomous so its laws do diverge from Denmark’s in a lot of ways. I’m not am expert or particularly knowledgeable on either, though, so just pointing it out because i don’t know where those deltas are. I don’t think you can actually own land in Greenland, for example, and rather long term lease plots from the government is perhaps one case?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon wants to go to Nuuk⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe they are completing their modern international airport this year or next? Which should make Nuuk, and Greenland, far more accessible and thus help its tourism industry. From my understanding, it’s also very hard to immigrate to.