The lawsuits against tech companies could shape what copyright means for AI, or simply serve as leverage for plaintiffs to secure more favorable licensing deals
The bar for fair use is typically that the new work doesn't compete with the original. … X: Sar Haribhakti / @sarthakgh : “If the NY Times successfully argues that reading a third party article to help its reporters “learn” about the news before reporting their own version of it is copyright infringement, it might not like how that is turned around by tons of other news organizations against the NY... [image] Cecilia Ziniti / @ceciliazin : 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! Julia Alexander / @loudmouthjulia : 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. Marty Swant / @martyswant : 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] Walter Isaacson / @walterisaacson : 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... See also Mediagazer