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Big e🅱️il guberment attacking small innocent ai goop buisness with the vile Copyright Fhforgement pigs
https://twitter.com/jess_miers/status/1777799266032853364
Big e🅱️il guberment attacking small innocent ai goop buisness with the vile Copyright Fhforgement pigs
More intellectual property enforcement is not good, even if it’s done to people you don’t like. Because it’s also going to be brought down on you
It isn’t, though.
I’m an incredibly small bean, policing data at this scale is borderline impossible, and we already demonstrated (via RIAA/MPAA wack-a-mole enforcement efforts) that this isn’t profitable in any meaningful sense.
The only people who really benefit from this kind of legislation are Mega-Corps who want to compel one another at some macro level.
The real end goal here is to force OpenAI to purge it’s model of images captured from Marvel or Disney or some WB property. Nobody is coming for your home rolled desktop image generator.
Yuzu and YouTube-DL are two real examples of copyright holders coming for your “home rolled” (in reality trained at a cost of millions of dollars in a datacenter) desktop image generator.
Yuzu was implicated in the “Tears of the Kingdom” leak, not just the emulation.
YouTube-DL is a 17-year-old application that still continues to appear to be widely available despite the take-down notice.
Neither are what I’d call “home rolled”. They’re both widely published and distributed.
People were saying “nobody’s gonna actually sue you for downloading Metallica songs” when the band went after Napster and guess what happened. to use a different, more recent example, the company that owns Monster cables is infamous for suing small businesses that have Monster in the name even if there’s no possible way anyone could get their business confused with their company.
And for 99.99% of people this was true. The overwhelming majority of people actually doing piracy went untouched. And even the artists were forced to concede, by the end, that they got suckered by a constellation of shady agents and lawyers who took them for a ride.
As someone who does not own a small business, I do not care.
I’m not sure why you’re posting this as if it’s not still happening. The BMI has been known to sue DIY venues for playing licensed music over the PA between bands if they find out about it. Sure, most people will get away with it but it still sucks for the few that don’t.
I’d also argue there’s a good chance this could start happening more and more as the corporations see their rate of profit falling naturally. They’re not gonna do the smart thing and blame capitalism, they’re gonna try to figure out how to go after whoever they want to extract as much extra money as possible.
I don’t care about small businesses either, but it’s an example of corporations weaponizing IP law to go against people smaller than them. Monster, for example, also sued charities for using Monster in the name. If you don’t think big tech would go after a mutual aid group or something else doing cool shit that happens to use AI for some reason, you’re wrong.
This Act will not affect whether you get caught playing copy written music in the slightest.