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Yeah I think a lot of it boils down to trying supplant the original work's value. As long as what you're doing is transformative and not intentionally monetized in a way that directly competes with the IP, you have a strong case in court for Fair use.
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He even did one about how social media will change politics that was 100% correct youtu.be/c_iN_QubRs0 and also speaks to your point that wikipedia as means of mass collaboration has worked out
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Clay Shirky did multiple TED Talks (I know trust me) on this stuff 16 years ago that nailed exactly why websites like Wikipedia would be the future youtu.be/sPQViNNOAkw
And he also pointed out a lot of the inherent/potential problems that the emergence of techbro AI tools has rapidly accelerated
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Ultimately, the value of fanart still rests on the existing IP and not the merits of the fanart itself... so it's a massive grey area that is very hard to define legally
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Technically there's a strong argument that fanart is transformative enough to be considered fair use. However, fair use isn't a legal protection, it's a guideline for determining use in court. So someone doing fanart would have to win in court to set legal precedent for doing fanart.
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If anything I think it's very important that the people making things "for kids" do so under the pretense that they need to make something meaningful
Studios treating "for kids" like a scapegoat to excuse bad storytelling or characters is the real issue
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It's the equivalent of asking 1,000 monkeys using typewriters a question, who are overseen by a drunk guy who yells at them when they type the wrong letter, but he doesn't speak the language you asked the question in, and developed a short term memory issue 3 weeks ago...
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The idea of "asking" a LLM a question and expecting an actual "answer" is fucking insane to me, since that's not what they're for
But it's worse that it ISN'T insane to everyone
People thank think these things work on facts and logic and can't see the obvious mistakes BAFFLE me
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I think it's a combination of traditional tools like google failing, and corporations taking over the general internet
AI hasn't taken off so much as it's been forced into everything
People have also rapidly gotten less capable of critical thought or basic reasoning, which AI thrives on exploiting
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It wasn't enough that they imagined their own goalposts 50 miles from the field and then convinced half the country they were the real goalposts... now that have to move them even further away from reality to justify doing insanely illegal and heinous shit...
Awesome, just great really