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AI Didn't Break Copyright Law, It Just Exposed How Broken It Already Was
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this post was submitted on 04 Feb 2026
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It's weird how AI has turned so much of the internet from its generally anti-copyright stance. I've seen threads in piracy and datahoarding communities that were riddled with "won't someone please think of the copyright!" Posts raging about how awful AI was.
I maintain the same view I always have. Copyright is indeed broken, because of how overly restrictive and expansive it has become. Most people long ago lost sight of what it's actually for.
"Copyright" is an overloaded word that can both mean "IP/copyright law, its terms and enforcement" as well as "the rights of an author to decide how their work should be used"
In the vein that LLM are just a tool? Wouldn't it be legally a problem, if a photoshop filter had rules specifically to generate Sonic art?
Btw, why is that blue hedgehog still a thing?