Paul McCartney and Dua Lipa urge UK Prime Minister to rethink his AI copyright plans. A new law could soon allow AI companies to use copyrighted material without permission.

I mean honestly this AI era is the time for these absurd anti-piracy penalties to be enforced. Meta downloads libgen? $250,000 per book plus jail time to the person who's responsible.

Oh but laws aren't for the rich and powerful you see!

What is the actual justification for this? Everyone has to pay for this except for AI companies, so AI can continue to develop into a universally regarded negative?

Normal people pirate: one hundred bazillion dollars fine for download The Hangover.

One hundred bazillion dollars company pirate: special law to say it okay because poor company no can exist without pirate 😞

If AI companies can pirate, so can individuals.

hello yes I'm an ai company. let me torrent all the things pls thank you

In theory, could you then just register as an AI company and pirate anything?

I'm naming my torrent client "AI" and now I have the right to download a car.

Disband Copyright

Can the rest of us please use copyrighted material without permission?

I mean they were trained on copyrighted material and nothing has been done about that so...

It’s like the goal is to bleed culture from humanity. Corporate is so keep on the $$$ they’re willing to sacrifice culture to it.

I’ll bet corporate gets to keep their copyrights.

should start up our own ai company anyone is free to join

1. There’s a practical concern: how do you prevent ai without preventing people.
2. What if you want to allow search, and how is that different than ai, legally or in practice?
3. Does this put Reddit in a new light? Free content to users but charging for the api to do bulk download such as for ai?

It only seems to make a difference when the rich ones complain.

How funny this is gonna get when AI copyrights Nintendo stuff. Ah man I got my popcorn ready.

So did this UK "centre-left" party turn out to be a Trojan horse or what? They've dismantled trans rights. They plan on using AI thought police to 'predict' future crimes and criminals. And now they want multibillion corporations to have free access to anyone's work without compensation.

If I hadn't looked this political party up on Wikipedia, by this point I would be assuming that they're a bunch of conservative wankers on Elon Musk's payroll.

Thought experiment: What if AI companies were allowed to use copyrighted material for free as long as they release their models to the public? Want to keep your model private? Pay up. Similar to the GPL.

I’d rather people not profiting off copyrighted work be permitted than those who profit off it

AI really shows the absurdity of intellectual property as a concept, the very way we learn, every idea we can have, every mental image we can create is the sum of copying and adapting the things we perceive and ideas that have predated our own, you can see this from the earliest forms of art where simple shapes and patterns were transmuted and adapted into increasingly complex ones or through the influence of old innovations into new ones, for example the influence of automatons on weaving looms with punched pegs and their influence on babbage machines and eventually computers. IP is ontological incoherent for this reason you cannot "own" an idea so much as you can own the water of one part of a stream

They are just illegally selling us off as slaves. That is what is happening. All our fault for not having strong citizen watchdogs, clamping down on this behavior.

Ahh. Paul McCartney. Looks like Lemmy has finally found a billionaire it likes.

I'm sure it is The Beatles' activism for social change that won people over. Who could forget their great protest song "The Taxman", bravely taking a stand against the 95% tax rate. Truly, the 60ies were a time of liberation.

Says the dude who completed a song using AI.

Pretty funny that Dua Lipa is so opposed to this when her entire catalogue sounds like blatant ripoffs of other people's music.

Greed have no age.

Good, fuck copyright these cunts have enough money already.

Please, save the copyright industry! If using these for AI isnt made ridiculously expensive, we will never be able to build a proper monopoly on top of this tech!

They get popular artists to sign these things but its the record companies (all three of them) that are really behind this.

Breaking: Two people whose fortunes depend on the existing world order urge lawmakers to ban something new that could disrupt that order.

I'm plenty open to questioning every part of copyright (has the idea ever actually been proven to be worth the enormous costs? It's like an infinity-percent tariff on anything information related.) but the same copyright should apply to everbody. It sounds like this proposal gives a specific pass to corporations developing AI - anything these corporations can access should be accessible to the general public as well. If you can use a song to train an AI for free, a human artist should also be allowed to use it directly and turn it into a new work.

I wonder how they decided which artist to include in the thumbnail image.

What’s a Dua Lipa?