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John Grisham, George R.R. Martin and more authors sue OpenAI for copyright infringement::John Grisham, Jodi Picoult and George R

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[–] BURN@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This is going to keep happening until one side wins (I’m with the Authors 100% here)

AI is a complete legal gray area, and will continue to be until precedent is set. Nobody has found what is and isn’t allowed under copyright law yet, and unfortunately I’m pretty sure the judges ruling on this aren’t going to be completely informed

[–] DaDaDrood@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago

I understand that authors and artists in a more general sense are very, very concerned. The problem is that this has nothing to do with AI. If I were to generate a story based on their work, I simply cannot distribute it without legal repurcusions. Doesn’t matter if I used AI or not. The problem lies, once again, at the publishers. They can churn out copy after copy using AI and abuse the artist in that regard. Something similar is happening with DC Fables and it’s creator(who in a gigachad move just threw the entire IP into the public domain).So what we need is copyright reform. Artists deserve to be paid adequately for their work and should be protected from being ‘impersonated’ by publishers using whatever means, not strictly AI. All these ban AI discussions miss the underlying point completely, being copyright reform. AI just sped up the proces 100 times.

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