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[–] 57 points 1 year ago (16 children)

It’s hard to feel sympathetic for Disney when they have more money than god.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    In this case that's exactly what we need, someone with more money than god that can set precedents to protect the authors and artists that need it the most.

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  • [–] 55 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Disney is not going to protect authors and artists.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    American law works on precedents, this will be one

    It doesn’t matter it was the evil empire getting that result

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago*

    It doesn’t matter it was the evil empire getting that result

    It does if it only benefits evil empires. The open source tools can't afford the price which only leaves the big AI companies that can and Disney who holds the data.

    All this will do is add a fat price tag and censorship. Artists will not get paid and AI will not go away, the jobs will still be lost. It's the worst of both worlds.

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  • [–] 85 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Disney isn't fighting for the little guy. They will still agressively use it to cull their own workforce. They want to control who can use it and don't want to compete against an indie animation scene.

    This is corporate AI against open source AI.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    This is corporate AI against open source AI.

    Show me where I can download Midjourneys full model to run it locally and then we can agree to call it "open weights". Unless their base model and training data is also available, it's not open source.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    This could be the first sign of AI bubble bursting.

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    Very interesting time to be a lawyer.

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    [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    Link to the article without the paywall

    New York Times Sues Fediverse Commenter for Copyright Infringement

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    You know the timeline is absolutely fucking fucked when you want Disney to win a copyright lawsuit. 😬

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It's just ironic because Disney is directly responsible for why copyright is so fucked up now.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    I don't see the irony. They perceive AI as a loop hole and need to squash it to keep their grip on things. If anybody can just prompt a movie in ten years, their business is dead. If a small group of indie animators can make a fully fledged movie, their business is dead.

    They made it fucked up in their favor, this lawsuit is a continuation of that.

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    [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    I'd say do it more... generate more star wars media until Disney gives it up as a golden goose to milk. Doesn't matter if it's ai or whatever fuck disney...

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    This is gonna be interesting. I really hope Disney wins. Then any artist can take this as a template to file their own lawsuits.

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  • when disney wins there will be nothing left to sue, with the result that now the entertainment industry, which has the available training data, will also have the AI technology, and the only one who profits is disney - because in this situation all open source GenAI is fucked.

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