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0 pointsADeerAppeared1y ago0 comments

No. AI firms are a good example of precisely why copyright was put in place.

Right now, AI is taking people's original works and rehashing them in a way that directly competes with the original work. Some AI firms (e.g. perplexity) just have their LLMs paraphrase the work lightly.

This is a problem because it drives original work out of business. Even setting aside matters of originality, artistic value, and AI being vapid slop:

Gen-AI is and will remain a derivative work that is reliant on original human-made work

ChatGPT is not going to do investigative journalism. If we let AI push all journalists into bankruptcy, the news just becomes an endless sewer of PR statements recycled into AI slop.

If you don't want Google's woke "diverse nazis" to push real news into bankruptcy, copyright is needed to stop them.

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FeepingCreature1y ago

All (99%) the music I listen to is remixes, all (99%) the writing I read is fanfic.

> Right now, AI is taking people's original works and rehashing them in a way that directly competes with the original work.

Good. Taking people's original works and rehashing them in direct competition fosters, not harms, cultural flourishing.

selestify1y ago

We should find new ways to fund essential services like journalism and the arts, rather than artificially crimping the possibilities of new technology in order to get a half-assed solution under the current paradigm.

__loam1y ago

Until we find the political will to do that, creating products that fuck over journalism is shitty.

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