Copyright liability for generative AI pivots on fair use doctrine

Re:Copyright liability for generative AI pivots on fair use ... by flangola7 on Monday September 25, 2023 @04:31PM (#37650184)

Existing media paradigms will not be around for very long, for better or worse. Intellectual property exists because high quality film, music, books, and more, require labor and resources to produce. Within a few years quality media of any type will be so plentiful and abundant it be as cheap as dirt.

No one today hires elite guards to protect a 50kg bag of salt... but at one time we did.

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Re:Copyright liability for generative AI pivots on fair use ... by thatoneguy on Monday September 25, 2023 @05:12PM (#37650722)

This is about as believable as a cryptobro saying "fiat currency will not be around for very long, for better or worse".

You can't produce genuinely new things with a human point of view based on lived experience with generative AI and there's no reason to expect that will be happen in the near future. Humans care about human stories and they care most about novel stories, not chewed-over already-told stories.

That said, with any luck we'll just get back to typewriters and film photos and we can shut the internet down for everything but email and Wikipedia. To do otherwise would leave thoughts, hopes and dreams open for consumption by software expressly designed to use them against their creators.

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Re:Copyright liability for generative AI pivots on fair use ... by Legend2440 on Monday September 25, 2023 @07:37PM (#37652270)

AI can produce genuinely new things right now. Go look at the brand new biological proteins being made by rfDiffusion.

You have no clue what is and isn't possible for AI to produce, and neither does anyone else. We haven't even hit the limit of current algorithms yet - Dall-E 3's creativity is mindblowing.

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Re:Copyright liability for generative AI pivots on fair use ... by flangola7 on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @10:23AM (#37659799)

Do you have any evidence to back up these outlandish claims?

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Re:Copyright liability for generative AI pivots on fair use ... by artninja1988 on Monday September 25, 2023 @07:06PM (#37651985)

I agree with this. If there is close to zero cost for creativity and works of art then there does not need to be an incentive through copyright which gives a was designed to give a timed monopoly on works. I for one am looking forward to those times when we are no longer shackled by intelectual "property" law.

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