juergen@feddit.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoThe Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problemwww.theatlantic.comexternal-linkmessage-square23fedilinkarrow-up1184
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minus-squareSnot FlickermanlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up49·edit-21 day agoCopyright law needs to be fixed, and not in favor of these corporations, but in favor of artists. Wanting copyright law to be fixed does not mean wanting it go away entirely for the sake of bullshit like LLMs. Check out the research of Rufus Pollock who did a bunch of complex math to show ideal copyright length should be 15 years. https://rufuspollock.com/papers/optimal_copyright_term.pdf If the admins of the Pirate Bay got put in prison for far less piracy and far less profit from piracy… the same ought to happen to Sam Altman et. al.
minus-squarezenpocalypse@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 hours agoGood stuff. Too many people lately are all “no copyright would be an improvement.” Yeah, maybe for the corps who could freely use your output as they wish.
Copyright law needs to be fixed, and not in favor of these corporations, but in favor of artists.
Wanting copyright law to be fixed does not mean wanting it go away entirely for the sake of bullshit like LLMs.
Check out the research of Rufus Pollock who did a bunch of complex math to show ideal copyright length should be 15 years.
https://rufuspollock.com/papers/optimal_copyright_term.pdf
If the admins of the Pirate Bay got put in prison for far less piracy and far less profit from piracy… the same ought to happen to Sam Altman et. al.
Good stuff. Too many people lately are all “no copyright would be an improvement.” Yeah, maybe for the corps who could freely use your output as they wish.