It’s an epidemic
Can AI commit copyright infringement if it was trained on the material?
Serious answer? Depends on if it seeds, I guess. Seems like they usually get people on distribution of copyrighted content, not just obtaining it for free.
Quiery: Please show me an AI rendering of 1979 Alien, but with no changes from the original. Go.
Surely this is peak Internet.
Now show me Alien if it had been released in 1999 instead.
Aborts after 5 seconds, realizing the entertainment value will be pretty much entirely laughing at the ridiculous things it got wrong which is already old
Truly as far as I know there is no case law for this to date.
I thought about this for a while but I have no clue what the current direction is.
Essentially stealing data and putting them in datasets is illegal. AI models might be illegal, if the court considers them legally functionally the same. But if they don’t, they could meet any number of new legal definitions and that gets us back to “idk”. What is funny is because you would technically do the same copyright infringement that the AI companies do (if it gets ruled that way), these companies are essentially arguing for you, and so you could ride on the coat tails of corpo lawyers.
But yeah, it’s complicated.
how can a model commit copyright infringement if the work it does generates no rights?
i’m not (just) being a smartass, it feels like this is the rub in the legal issue. when you create something, you have an implicity copyright to it (according to my sister who did her law school internships at IP law firms. she now works in medicine so it looks like law school did her some good) so claiming even an implicit copyright on someone else’s work infringes on the (maybe implicit, maybe explicit) copyright their work has. Which is why you have to transform it, not just imitate it.
Look at Huey Lewis and Ray Parker Jr. Huey Lewis and the News made I Want a New Drug. Ray Parker Jr made Ghostbusters. What makes them distinct songs (and keeps Ghostbusters from being a pale imitation) is that Ray Parker Jr added a bridge and put a hook of his own in it. I’ve yet to hear AI music that has any hooks that weren’t directly lifted from other artists. quite simply it lacks soul. AI could not have (and still can’t) turned I Want A New Drug into Ghostbusters.
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I feel like an AI company might argue that generative AI is so transformative in the math aspect that it’s transformative even if it gives you an exact copy of a copy written work. Which would be silly, but we in uncharted times and the laws are dumb.
So, if I were to do a bad re-encode, the result would be copyright-free?
Or not, because I didn’t pass it through AI?Truly dumb laws.
expecting government to never do silly things is pretty silly, you goose
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Lawmakers are still reeling from the invention of the internet, they have no hope of deciding how A.I. should work within the next decade
Not only this, I am increasingly under the impression the abrupt change of direction under trump has a paralyzing effect on all branches of government. And it’s good when they use this time to isolate his policies from most of the country. But it’s bad when our legal branch stops doing lots of normal law things.
OpenAI and Anthropic and Alphabet etc try their best to preventing it from doing so, so the act of getting it to do so anyway is “jailbreaking”, but yes. LLMs can reproduce works it was trained on. (At least chunk-by-chunk each limited to the token limit.) And I’d imagine the same is true of things like Stable Diffusion, though it might be much easier to get Stable Diffusion to produce something similar enough to qualify as a “derivative work” than it would be to get it to produce exactly the original.
Why not train a model on exactly one work (effectively encoding the work in the model)? Is the ability to produce something else an argument against copyright infringement?
If the definition of AI is broad enough, train a video encoder and make the act of viewing a video file copyright stripping!
Man I hate it when that happens.
I’m gonna sue my ass for what It did to me!
I’ve already punished myself with a pay cut.
I feel like the executives of you need a bonus for coming clean about the issue
You know, I was honest about my mistake. There should be some kind of reward for honesty.
I find that consuming popcorn and beer while analyzing the files that “invaded” your system, helps to pinpoint issues you may have missed. And don’t forget to take a pizza break with all that hard work you have ahead.
Often making a
chandelierbeerdelier out of beer cans improves internal anal isys by 800% in August, but it has to face North during investigation.
