Note: if we throw out copyright, it’s OK for LLM companies to just steal any and all data under the sun. Example: Anthropic buys books, and just digitizes them, then uses that data to train their LLMs
It’s a nasty side effect.
On the other hand: No company can claim anything you’ve generated from their LLMs.
I know, it’s hard to bring nuance to this. The current copyright system is completely fucked. I think we still need some sort of copyright, but one that expires after like 10 years after first publication. I would actually be fine with everything being used to train AI models, if AI wouldn’t require ungodly amounts of resources and the companies wouldn’t be owned by tech bro assholes. If it would belong to us all, be free to use and not burn down our world even quicker, AI would be fine.
But we currently have copyright laws and AI companies stole everything ANYWAY and NOTHING HAPPENED. Don’t you see that copyright is just a tool from big capital to stop true innovation and creative freedom?
There is copyright for everything and artists still struggle today. Copyright is just another tool to make companies OWN their workers work.
Abolish copyright and see artists flourish. See your local artist create custom art for your favourite movie without getting crushed if they get famous. See movies getting made by truly creative minds funded by YOU and not studios that want to sell toys and phones. Have they lost the ability to become billionaires from a hit? Should we feel sorry for that? NO ONE should own so much.
Note: if we throw out copyright, it’s OK for LLM companies to just steal any and all data under the sun. Example: Anthropic buys books, and just digitizes them, then uses that data to train their LLMs
It’s a nasty side effect.
On the other hand: No company can claim anything you’ve generated from their LLMs.
I know, it’s hard to bring nuance to this. The current copyright system is completely fucked. I think we still need some sort of copyright, but one that expires after like 10 years after first publication. I would actually be fine with everything being used to train AI models, if AI wouldn’t require ungodly amounts of resources and the companies wouldn’t be owned by tech bro assholes. If it would belong to us all, be free to use and not burn down our world even quicker, AI would be fine.
But we currently have copyright laws and AI companies stole everything ANYWAY and NOTHING HAPPENED. Don’t you see that copyright is just a tool from big capital to stop true innovation and creative freedom?
There is copyright for everything and artists still struggle today. Copyright is just another tool to make companies OWN their workers work.
Abolish copyright and see artists flourish. See your local artist create custom art for your favourite movie without getting crushed if they get famous. See movies getting made by truly creative minds funded by YOU and not studios that want to sell toys and phones. Have they lost the ability to become billionaires from a hit? Should we feel sorry for that? NO ONE should own so much.