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[-] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 hours ago

I feel like once they open that door, they shouldn't get to decide who walks through it. Either they support AI using their characters, or they don't. I mean, they're certainly well within their rights to say none of them can do it, and I would support that if that was the way they went, but no, they said one company could use their IP to train its data. It's a rat race. They're all going to use it.

[-] Bougie_Birdie@piefed.blahaj.zone 42 points 5 hours ago

Disney just announced yesterday that they were investing a billion dollars into OpenAI. I have a hard time believing any AI company is respecting copyright because infringement is their business model. This sort of reads like "the competition's product is worse than ours."

It’s hard to know who to root for in a battle between giant AI firms and equally giant entertainment companies.

You're allowed to root for nobody. Sometimes everyone sucks.

[-] Midnitte@beehaw.org 3 points 1 hour ago

Or just looking to make that licensing deal woth Google much more expensive than the OpenAI one

[-] SCmSTR 9 points 3 hours ago

Wait a minute, maybe Disney's on to something..

Yeah, sure, they always take what isn't theirs to begin with, copyright it, and sue the bejesus off of anybody that crosses them...

But what if this backfires, and Disney brings a lawyer to a lawyer fight and causes a wave of actual legal discovery, here? Like a weird accidental poison pill for the AI industry.

LET ME HOPE

[-] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

The inevitable follow-up of their OpenAI deal. Make a deal with a big GenAI company to get precedent for them licensing your copyrights, then go against everyone else who doesn't have such a deal. Now it's up to see who bribed Trump the most.

[-] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 29 minutes ago

Further proof that copyrights, like patents, only benefit the rich.

Also, AI-generated material still falls into the monkey selfie legal realm, so they are going to have a helluva time trying to copyright what comes out.

[-] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 27 minutes ago* (last edited 27 minutes ago)

I don't think they care about monetizing the output, but only about not being sued by the output and making other need to pay 1B to Disney before releasing models. Basically they run out of moat, and now they're creating an artifical moat.

[-] Triumph@fedia.io 2 points 4 hours ago

I mean, that's exactly how those deals work.

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