My father got arrested and almost jailed for burning MP3 and audio disks for money. These people can scrape other people’s work for profit, and then get applauded by investors.

Piracy for me but not for thee.

I wonder if the next step will be making it able for a human to copyright the output of generative AI models, only for that these companies making sure through terms of use that they’ll be holding 50+% of the copyright and the profits in case of selling their slop.

Dalek-style robots going around screaming “MUST BUST THE UNIONS!”

That would cut into their bottom line, they can’t have any of that!

Piracy for me but not for thee!

I C what you did there!

Even on “near 100% screen” devices, there’s still real estate on the side, for some function buttons, like bixby, back, home, etc. My Windows Phone Nokia had a dedicated camera button that could have alternative functions in some applications.

Not with AI generated slop.

But that can poison the AI to some degree.

Well, compared to vinyls, they’re a lot more durable. Vinyls degrade by each play a lot more than CDs.