brentpattersonI haven't told anyone about this yet, so let's go: Last fall, attorney's working for a certain social media company we will call "Schmeta" reached out to me asking for help with a copyright suit specifically because I was an academic who is also an 'expert' with Blender. 🧵
They wanted an expert who would state that 3D models aren't worth anything because they are so easy to make. Evidently Shmeta and an ivy league school we will call "Schmarvard" had scraped data illegally from a certain company's online library and used it to to train their AI...
These attorney's wanted me to show that I could make textured 3D models quickly and and easily in Blender to exhibit how easy they are to make and that the lawsuit against them for stealing hundreds of thousands of 3D models was worthless. They were willing to pay me significantly to do this.
Kay Ohtie 🔜 FWA@brentpatterson "you're an expert so you know it takes no time at all" what
What fucking logic.
Garbage people.
yaoi gagarin@KayOhtie @brentpatterson of course they don't actually believe any of that, they just want someone to say it in court to weasel out of trouble