Timnit Gebru (she/her).This whole "this is how humans learn so whats the difference" thing while stealing so much data to make billions for a few dudes is so insidious.
Chris Radcliff@timnitGebru I still don’t get how that’s supposed to cover obvious infringement. “We trained our writer’s room on this collection of Marvel comics, so now they can write MCU films for anyone who wants them!”
ArneBab@chris_radcliff you can do that: you can train your writers on Marvell fiction and then tell them to write fanfiction. It won’t be copyright infringement, but it pretty sure would be infringing on trademarks, and it would be plagiarism.
@chris_radcliff The deeper problem is that copyright law is a swamp.
I once asked a webcomic author whether he would allow me to use a single strip under free licenses for a free RPG. He asked “will I still retain the rights to the characters?”.
Half a year of part-time searching later I had to tell him: “I don’t know and no one can tell me”.
So since his livelihood depended on others not being able to just run with his cast of characters, we decided to scrap the idea.
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@chris_radcliff that swamp of copyright is where now generative art is added that doesn’t really copy any specific work and does not need to actually recreate a character as it is but combines stuff from a huge number of undisclosable sources where each usage might or might not be fair use but the company behind it has funds to simply outspend any author who sues.
Now copyright is still a swamp, but big money is with those who consume the works, not with those who control access.
@timnitGebru