Comment by spwa4
16 days ago
The trivial fix is to put the US government for an impossible choice: "uncopyright" all Disney movies by taking the stories and make better versions of each and every one of their movies with AI.
NOT to do it once, but to create a mechanism to do it 100 times if necessary. Because, once, they can just cheat in a court case (sorry I mean "explain the impact this would have to the judge"). And make sure to publish the algorithm. And if there are 100 versions, with version 101 easily produced ...
Then the US (and other) governments have to choose: either say AI produced works are not copyright-free, which will be a VERY serious problem for AI, or rights holder companies become worthless.
Either of those represent incredible losses for the US government, as well as for other governments that also haven't behaved very well at all.
To some extent this has already happened: commercial music providers (for supermarkets and ...) have all switched to AI "totally not based on copyrighted works" songs.
The casualness with which you suggest AI can produce better films than the Disney archive makes the rest of your assertions irrelevant.
I am casual because last year we have 2s movies being generated. These days I don't even look for it (in fact I try to avoid it) and I see ads of 20+ seconds that are obviously AI generated at least every week. Not some huge company doing research, an obvious commercial, relatively small company.
A movie is 7200 seconds so we're talking 2.5 years until you can go directly from a sentence to a 2 hour movie. You should be able to beat that with some tricks.