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[–] gapbetweenus@feddit.de 89 points 10 months ago (62 children)

The tool's creators are seeking to make it so that AI model developers must pay artists to train on data from them that is uncorrupted.

That's not something a technical solution will work for. We need copyright laws to be updated.

[–] federatingIsTooHard@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (34 children)

copyright laws need to be abolished

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Truly a "Which Way White Man" moment.

I'm old enough to remember people swearing left, right, and center that copyright and IP law being aggressively enforced against social media content has helped corner the market and destroy careers. I'm also well aware of how often images from DeviantArt and other public art venues have been scalped and misappropriated even outside the scope of modern generative AI. And how production houses have outsourced talent to digital sweatshops in the Pacific Rim, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America, where you can pay pennies for professional reprints and adaptations.

It seems like the problem is bigger than just "Does AI art exist?" and "Can copyright laws be changed?" because the real root of the problem is the exploitation of artists generally speaking. When exploitation generates an enormous profit motive, what are artists to do?

[–] randomsnark@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

What is a "which way white man" moment?

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