Mastodawn

I read your article about your initiative for new licenses for dataset holders in the AI industry.

Let’s be clear: I do not want to re-license my hundreds of CC-By comic pages to please AI giants.

I wish you would support CC artists suffering from massive plagiarism. You should enforce your own existing licenses against AI mass crawling. It seems you’ve joined the battle only after the casualties and still managed to side with the wrong people.

https://creativecommons.org/2025/06/25/introducing-cc-signals-a-new-social-contract-for-the-age-of-ai/

Introducing CC Signals: A New Social Contract for the Age of AI - Creative Commons

CC Signals © 2025 by Creative Commons is licensed under CC BY 4.0 Creative Commons (CC) today announces the public kickoff of the CC signals project, a new preference signals framework designed to increase reciprocity and sustain a creative commons in the age of AI. The development of CC signals represents a major step forward…

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I'd love to pick your brains about this particular news. From what I can read it looks so vague that it's no so much introducing something as inducing anxiety.

I have no reaction because it doesn't appear to have anything in it. Perhaps out of sheer cowardice. It's hard to gauge anything other the a will to "do something" or be seen to be doing something at least.

Interested?

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David Revoy

@doctormo Sure! But I think the four links on their Github https://github.com/creativecommons/cc-signals?tab=readme-ov-file#cc-signals-1 with mini draft 'key idea' for the four new licenses speaks already a lot about the intent, the philosophy behind it.
- Tailoring an attribution licence for AI giants in case they change their minds and decide to respect something.
- Believing in the royalties breadcrumb system, whereby the AI lord decides in good faith (lol, their words) who receives the financial micro-percentage income from reuse. yay.

GitHub - creativecommons/cc-signals: CC signals is a framework for a simple pact between those stewarding data, and those reusing it for AI development. CC signals provide a set of shared ground rules for an AI ecosystem that is mutually beneficial.

CC signals is a framework for a simple pact between those stewarding data, and those reusing it for AI development. CC signals provide a set of shared ground rules for an AI ecosystem that is mutua...

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Heh, I notice one of the signals isn't "fuck off", but I guess that's just something we'll have to win in the courts.

Looks like they've come at this from the idea of the maximally restrictive copyright regime where property rights had made sharing problematic to one where the law is allowing unconsenting abuse of works. Maybe hedging that copyright will be tightened.

Though considering the gullibility of politicians with AI, I just don't see that yet.