Cory DoctorowEverything Made By an #AI Is In the #PublicDomain: The US #Copyright Office offers creative #workers a powerful #labor protective:
https://doctorow.medium.com/everything-made-by-an-ai-is-in-the-public-domain-caa634a8f7f1
Our bosses DESPERATELY want to fire us and replace us with plausible sentence generators
https://doctorow.medium.com/everything-made-by-an-ai-is-in-the-public-domain-caa634a8f7f1
jordan@pluralistic sorry, but this is dumb. the ruling is dumb. if the output of "algorithms" being manipulated by humans isn't copyrightable, then say goodbye to any computer generated art, because there are a ton of things that should apply. autotune your voice? sorry that was processed by an algorithm. photoshop a picture? public domain now, because adobe loves little automagic AI filters. the hate boner for shitty corporations is blinding us.
Benjamin@wagesj45 @pluralistic All copyright is arbitrary. There’s no “natural mechanism” to enforce any of it. We just collectively decided that copying some things should be restricted and other things shouldn’t.
It’s completely reasonable to argue LLM content should get radically different protections than anything that has come before.
@birwin that's fair. there are many reasonable takes. we just fall on different sides.
this is one of those things where we are just gonna disagree, i think.