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  • _g_be@lemmy.worldtoCurated Tumblr@sh.itjust.workson AI art, copyright and theft
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    1 month ago

    But we’re AI users going to pay?

    In your head is AI being used solely by common people for fun little prompts? If you build this machine that replaces the artist, corporations can and will use it that way.

    Big movie studios will use it to generate parts (and eventually all) of a movie. They can use this as leverage to pay the artists less and hire fewer of them. Animators, actors, voice actors.

    you want the rich and powerful to stop pirating and freebooting artist’s work, maybe the first step is to ban that (or rather, enforce it) rather than a technology two steps removed?

    If a movie studio pirated work and used it in a film, that’s against copyright and we could sue them under current law.
    But if they are paying openAI for a service, and it uses copyrighted material, since openAI did the stealing and not the studio then it’s not clear if we can sue the studio.

    Logically we would pursue openAI then, but you’re arguing that we shouldn’t because it’s “two steps removed”.

    Seems like it’s being argued that because of the layer of abstraction that is created when large quantities of media is used, rather than an individual’s work, that it’s suddenly a victimless crime. That because what’s being done is not currently illegal it must not be immoral either.