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Japan Decides That Copyright Doesn't Apply to AI Training (technomancers.ai)
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[–] 27 points 3 years ago (2 children)

Not at all... In fact, it's totally batshit insane to determine that the biggest tech companies in the world can freely use anybody's copyrighted data or intellectual property to train an AI and then claim to have ownership over the output.

The only way that it makes sense to have AI training be "fair use" is if the output of AI is not able to be copyrighted or commercially used, and that's not the case here. This decision will only enable a mass, industrialized exploitation of workers, artists and creators.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    Expanding on the already expansive terms of copyright is not the appropriate way to deal with the externalities of AI. This copyright maximalists approach will hurt small artists, remix culture, drive up business costs for artists who will be dragged into court to prove their workflows didn’t involve any generative steps, and as with every expansion of copyright, primarily help the large already centralized corporate IP holders to further cement their position.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    But would copyright law not cover the creation of a piece of art that is derivative or a copy of another piece without proper credit?

    A human artist does not violate copyright merely for studying a piece of art. Only by replicating it do they violate the law.

    Why should these AI models not be covered in the same way?

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