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Re:The Gates of Argonath from the LotR in VR 50 FPS Using UE5.1 by worldsayshi on Thursday December 15, 2022 @07:46AM (#33998685)
The wrong and easy reaction to this is to limit these services to not include copyrighted content. The more right and really really difficult solution would be to give the original copyright holders partial rights to the output.

It really feels like the textile factory worker problem all over again. We can't let the big players be the benefactors every time.

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Re:The Gates of Argonath from the LotR in VR 50 FPS Using UE5.1 by astrange on Thursday December 15, 2022 @08:28AM (#33999185)
> The more right and really really difficult solution would be to give the original copyright holders partial rights to the output.

That is impossible (assigning credit to training images from the output is arbitrary, not deterministic) and wouldn't help anyone (imagine Spotify except it pays you even less).

> It really feels like the textile factory worker problem all over again. We can't let the big players be the benefactors every time.

Industrialization is better for society because it produces more customer surplus. Even Marx thought the Luddites were wrong.

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Re:The Gates of Argonath from the LotR in VR 50 FPS Using UE5.1 by worldsayshi on Thursday December 15, 2022 @06:00PM (#34007029)
>Industrialization is better for society because it produces more customer surplus.

Also my point.

>Even Marx thought the Luddites were wrong.

Sure they are wrong in that they confuse what the problem is. If workers owned the factory they would be happy to automate the work. But their feeling of being left out has some validity because if they weren't the total value would improve.

The real issue is that the revenue brought back through automation doesn't benefit the worker. If it did, the automation would happen sooner because incentives would align better and the total value for society would thus likely improve faster.

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