• Saik0@lemmy.saik0.com
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    1 year ago

    You make a lot of excellent points, but I think the main issue of contention is just using copyrighted work to train generative AI without the author’s permission regardless.

    If I read a book at the library… and come up with an amazing revolutionary product. Then make a company and go on to make billions of dollar per year. The original book Author has no claim to my income.

    There’s no contention. This is just a money grab. Copyright doesn’t disallow people from consuming the content as they please. It simply disallows someone to pass off the original works as your own when it’s not.

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      1 year ago

      Well yeah, art is made to be consumed by people.
      And all art is inspired by other art. People write scifi books after reading other scifi books etc Thats not the issue here.

      The issue is artists should be able to opt out of having their work taken and fed into a big project they have no control over.

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        1 year ago

        The issue is artists should be able to opt out of having their work taken and fed into a big project they have no control over.

        So in your opinion a should University have to ask each authors permission before using their work as a reference for each study run there one by one?

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          1 year ago

          There is already a well established practise of getting permission in academic settings for reprinting written work/journal articles/etc. etc. And all published authors and academics understand that their work will be read, maybe used in an academic setting, summarized, debated, discussed, quoted, etc. Getting permission is definitely a thing in academia.