Comment by ben_w
2 years ago
No, not for those reasons; copyright doesn't magically go away if you wave a wand labelled "technology", the copyright holders absolutely will still go after you, and sometimes they win rulings about stuff like this and get huge payouts on the hypothetical income they think they're entitled to.
Copyright holders absolutely won’t go after you for anything you do locally and only show to friends.
Or for fanfiction, normally.
Any open source model worthy of the adjective isn't done[0] locally and shown only to friends, and the models are what's going to get attacked.
[0] built locally, probably, but if you stop at that point there's nothing open about it, source or otherwise.
Copyright can go away as magically as it appeared.
Why are you downvoted? This is the solution. You are not alone.
There's probably a copyright abolitionist movement out there. If there isn't, someone should start one.
Agreed. Question Copyright was a non profit that advocated that but they just shut down recently.
I think the most prominent copyright abolition (or at least, reform) groups nowadays are the online pirates, who are essentially nullifying copyright in practice. No matter the legal status of AI, you'll be able to rely on them for a torrent.
Don't forget the pirate parties!
The end of copyright just means that corporations would no longer pay creators, they would just steal all the work and sell it without asking. It would hurt creators more than help them, today if someone writes a book you have to ask them to distribute it, without copyright they would just distribute and the author wouldn't make any money.
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Over several hundred years of lobbying by increasingly entrenched groups that made ever more money from it?
Sure, but that's a little pessimistic even by my standards.
Copyright is for publication, not creation. I honestly don't consider telling GPT to draw Homer Simpson as publication. Sticking it on a blog is publication. (Law may differ on this, I admit).
The basic legal principle is that you sue whoever has the most money. Suing a random blogger who used ChatGPT doesn't accomplish much. Suing ChatGPT under a novel legal theory might.