Cabel Sasser
I love the headlines that are like “now that mickey is public domain, you can generate him in AI!” as if AI has been somehow respecting copyright this whole time
Jan 2, 2024 at 8:49pmWeb
Show threadDavid Crooks 🏳️‍🌈Jan 2, 2024

@cabel We all know the AI companies are just watching the public domain lists, eager to honour artists rights, right?

… right?

Show threadChris GlassJan 2, 2024
@cabel Yeah, if they can't prevent worse things, I don't expect them to outdo Disney lawyers
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-65932372
Illegal trade in AI child sex abuse images exposed

Paedophiles are using the technology to create and sell life-like abuse material, the BBC finds.

Show threadDrew BreunigJan 2, 2024
@cabel
Show threadChuck JordanJan 2, 2024
@cabel I also like how all the sophomoric edgelord stuff is described as “counterculture.” Because there’s nothing more counterculture than carefully observing the distinction between fair use and public domain.
Show threadCabel SasserJan 2, 2024
@SasquatcherGeneral And apparently we’ve all forgotten Wally Wood already drew that one poster back in 1967
Show threadben burbankJan 2, 2024
@cabel @SasquatcherGeneral by transitive property this is public domain now right
Show threadJacob WolmanJan 2, 2024
@cabel (and as if the AI models can distinguish between Steamboat Willie Mickey and all the later versions that still enjoy copyright protection)
Show threadChris FerdinandiJan 2, 2024
@cabel there’s also a lot of people who don’t seem to realize that only the Steamboat Willie version of Mickey is public domain, not the modern version of him.
Show threadNiniJan 3, 2024
@cferdinandi @cabel And even then it's just the short itself, you cannot make things that use Mickey's likeness or his name still. It's a weird fundamental misunderstanding of what something transferring into the public domain actually means.
Show threadstarfrostJan 3, 2024
@cabel you can generate him in ai even harder now
Show threadSaberwarthogJan 3, 2024
@cabel
The more people & news outlets speaks about copyright & public domain, the more I'm reminded that most of them knows goddamn nothing about it.