The lawsuits against AI companies could shape the future of copyright or may simply serve as leverage for plaintiffs to secure more favorable licensing deals
The use of content from news and information providers to train artificial intelligence systems may force a reassessment of where to draw legal lines.
New York Times J. Edward Moreno
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@docrevan.xyz
Revan
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This article documents how Dall-E and other image generators will spit out copyright infringement, but I am going to point out it's funny that with the generic Mario prompt ("video game plumber") Dall-E generates Rule 63 Mario. https://garymarcus.substack.com/ ... [image]
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@martyswant
Marty Swant
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I tried making images of popular cartoon characters via DALL-E 3 and it generated some that looked very similar to the actual characters and others with less resemblance. Here's a few from the other day. Prompts in the ALT text. [image]
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@loudmouthjulia
Julia Alexander
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It certainly feels somewhat inevitable, based on what I've read, that OpenAI will institute some form of ContentID. YouTube's big answer to similar concerns was to institute one of the most important but controversial tools. And it's benefitted the studios/labels enormously.
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@ceciliazin
Cecilia Ziniti
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Nice thread by @martyswant of DallE making cartoon characters. I tested it by asking my 3-year-old to guess them. She got only 7 of the 12. Not Winnie the Pooh and not Mickey. The fair use art generation cases will be fascinating!
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@walterisaacson
Walter Isaacson
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These will be the most important cases for journalism and publishing in our lifetime. If AI companies have to cut deals with news organizations and publishers to license their content feeds for use as AI training data, that could save local journalism as well as magazines and...
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@random_walker
Arvind Narayanan
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A thread on some misconceptions about the NYT lawsuit against OpenAI. Morality aside, the legal issues are far from clear cut. Gen AI makes an end run around copyright and IMO this can't be fully resolved by the courts alone. (HT @sayashk @CitpMihir for helpful discussions.)