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Google says AI systems should be able to mine publishers’ work unless companies opt out, turning copyright law on its head (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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In its submission to the Australian government’s review of the regulatory framework around AI, Google said that copyright law should be altered to allow for generative AI systems to scrape the internet.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)

a human does not copy previous work exactly like these algorithms, whats this shit take?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

A human can absolutely copy previous works, and they do it all the time. Disney themselves license books teaching you how to do just that. https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/learn-to-draw-disney-celebrated-characters-collection-disney-storybook-artists/1124097227

Not to mention the amount of porn online based on characters from copyrighted works. Porn that is often done as a paid commission, expressly violating copyright laws.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Neither does AI?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

But considering that humans do get copyright strikes when they do something too similar that should also applies to AI, doesn't matter if it's not exact.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

That should tell you something about how companies act. They're fine with these LLMs plagiarising content but when someone gets marginally close to their own trademarks, they get slammed.