Friday, 21 February 2020

Does Copyright apply to AI-generated works?

quote [ The Office will not register works produced by nature, animals, or plants.” What is left open to wide interpretation is the role of human intervention. In the case of AI, so the argument goes, there is human intervention in the design of the algorithms, in their training, and in their post-algorithm curation. ]

Thanks to a monkey selfie we got bot copyright laws.
[SFW] [do it yourSElf] [+1 Interesting]
[by Paracetamol@8:17amGMT]

Comments

snowfox said @ 8:50am GMT on 21st Feb
Didn't we go through this with photos taken by animals? Would the AI generated work be treated differently?
mechanical contrivance said @ 2:04pm GMT on 21st Feb
It's a machines world
Don't tell me I ain't got no soul
When the machines take over
It ain't no place for rock and roll
mechanical contrivance said @ 2:13pm GMT on 21st Feb
In the future, movie and television studios will lease time on a scriptwriting AI instead of hiring writers.
steele said @ 6:58pm GMT on 21st Feb
This is why IP laws are fucking stupid and outdated. All information already exists; Knowledge is the combination of data (the infinite realm of 1s and 0s) and context (experience) which as a realm is quickly being conquered by AI in leaps and bounds.

The Library of Babel belongs to us all. Under our current IP law's understanding of information there's nothing stopping an organization from creating an AI that will literally copyright the conceptual roots of every piece of intellectual work within human understanding.

TLDR; IP is theft of the Commons.
Hugh E. said @ 8:00pm GMT on 21st Feb [Score:1 Funny]
"Artificials are people, my friend."
- Bit ROMney
steele said @ 8:52pm GMT on 21st Feb
mechanical contrivance said @ 7:03pm GMT on 21st Feb
The commons is theft of IP.
snowfox said @ 1:32am GMT on 22nd Feb [Score:1 Underrated]
Exactly. Pay your artists. Buy rights to consume media. If you won't pay for it, don't go illegally download it like some entitled child who thinks they have a right to everything they want just because they want it.
zarathustra said @ 12:03pm GMT on 22nd Feb [Score:1 Original]
I think I have the right to do whatever I want because I did not agree to the social contract that claims to bind me. I don't give a fuck if it is illegal. Now if you tell me that it is immoral, I will give that more serious consideration.
snowfox said @ 12:29pm GMT on 23rd Feb [Score:1 Good]
A lot of artists, even on successful properties, struggle financially. Super stars will be fine, but smaller productions really do need the money to keep going and not starve. Entertainment is a service and should be treated like it
Would you sneak into a small local play? Or skip out on paying for a massage? Be considerate about who you're taking from, whether they are the 1%ers of media or someone smaller in a more tenuous position.
zarathustra said @ 10:46pm GMT on 23rd Feb [Score:1 Insightful]
Much better argument.
steele said @ 7:46pm GMT on 21st Feb
In bed.
zarathustra said[1] @ 10:45pm GMT on 23rd Feb
Much better argument. (oops wrong place)

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