Today, the UK government announced a proposal to change copyright law - for the benefit of AI companies - that would cause huge, irreversible harm to creators.
More info below, but most importantly here's what you can do (wherever you live):
1. Email your MP. Template letter in 𧡠π
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More info below, but most importantly here's what you can do (wherever you live):
1. Email your MP. Template letter in 𧡠π
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Comments
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SRfa1g6FzMdP5JxVTKHfsbgtXh1vL7XthTi69t8xEpM
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- Broad new copyright exception for commercial generative AI training. AI companies will be able to train on British copyrighted work without a licence...
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- Rights holders can 'reserve their rights', i.e. opt out. But opt-outs don't work...
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https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/CVPR2023/papers/Somepalli_Diffusion_Art_or_Digital_Forgery_Investigating_Data_Replication_in_Diffusion_CVPR_2023_paper.pdf
Surely if they have a copyright exemption, *Everyone* does. You just put the copyrighted work into an AI to tweak it, then say it's a product of the AI, not a copy
I think it's applicable for a lot of countries. It affects us all.
Do you have any advice or ideas on how we can fight this in multiple locations?
...EU Law might be most strict in the world, so anyone wanting to do business with them or publish content...maybe?
I honestly want to burn the country to the groundβ¦ Guy Fawkes had a goddamned pointβ¦ just - utter bastardsβ¦.
If you canβt then send the template anyway - still creates noise!
My MP Satvir Kaur is against trans rights but had to be pursued to get the admission.
Mind as well end copyright, all together, if your going to make a cutout for big AI companies that will eventually charge us all into oblivion for what they "create."
https://ipoconsultations.citizenspace.com/ipo/consultation-on-copyright-and-ai/
https://medium.com/@GarAlperovitz/technological-inheritance-and-the-case-for-a-basic-income-ded373a69c8e
Why can't we have UBI and only allow AI to train on data that the owner has opted in?
Your dismissive attitude to AI and copyright is disappointing. I've become a UBI advocate from seeing you post elsewhere, but this isn't an either/or situation.
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Companies who are notoriously protective of their IPs?
Ridiculous. Foght against this
Affect the corporations and suddenly things become a problem
@scotparl.bsky.social
What a short-sighted and damaging Govt proposal, but also pretty fickle given how tight copyright rules are in other areas of lifeβ¦
I hope sense leads to a rethink.
But using copyrighted content to make loads of money with it by generating cheap copies of it is good? π₯΄
They were warned.
It is always about the companies and not about the people.
Oh yeah that would be fair and wouldn't further enrich the plutocrats
#Billionaires #AI #Inequality #UBI #TaxTheRich #NoRichNoPoor
I'm going to skin somebody. /j(?)
They don't feel threatened because if I generate Frozen 3 they'll sue me into the ground, but they can use the world's creative output as a foundation to cut back on their own costs and there's very little we can do.
Also, what most people call #AI actually isn't anything of the sort. It's just highly automated systems running on a ton of data scraped off the internet
These systems do NOT think for themselves AT ALL
Not a single one of them could even come close to passing the #TuringTest
An advanced and much larger scale version of a zip file of an image of a dog with βdogβ as password.
Brilliant analogy. Thank you!
Asking for reasons.
Our current democracy is broken, but it won't be fixed if we just submit.
And yet, Iβm STILL not allowed to download Nintendo roms that are at least a DECADE old and arenβt even on NSO+.
itβs honestly getting harder and harder to be a peaceful, apolitical, level-headed person every single dayβ¦
https://fortune.com/2024/12/14/openai-whistleblower-suchir-balaji-suicide-san-francisco-apartment-copyright-violations/
Thereβs lots more of this to come.
Yeah, sure, let's steal the work we spent days, weeks, months creating just to earn a pittance and give it to rich techbros for free, so they can make even more money on soulless slop while we are all driven out of our existence.
Those two hate copyright stuff and fan games. And giving it to Artificial Image bots and the machines they use would be slapping those companies as well.
Looks like the consultation is to change copyright law to benefit creatives by providing a legally enforcible opt-out.
https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/copyright-and-artificial-intelligence
They also want AI companies to have to list citations so you can see if your stuff was used, and be able to claim royalties off them.
If my work was worth scraping, I'd be pretty chuffed with this. It's better terms than someone quoting my paper and citing it.
The fact is big companies are paying $$$ to avoid law. Very simple , if you use copyrighted content without permission = imprisonment. It would stop overnight.
When I write a paper and quote someone's work, I am doing worse than the AI.
I am not just using copyrighted content without permission, I am also reproducing it.
The fact is big companies are paying $$$ to *wield* the law. Very simple. If they decide you used copyrighted content without permission = imprisonment. It stops people overnight.
This is also explained in the consultation, it is also explained that even if it weren't, it is impossible to know what the AI used, because the AI does not copy the copyrighted work.
Your work is your time, energy and livelihood. No one should be allowed to steal that away from you.
Unless they are rich, then laws don't come into account . See open a.i using a RESEARCH only database to make 8billion
"The following costs could fall on AI users and the public:
Negative externalities (e.g. negative employment impacts, environmental harm)Β (indirect)."
(But it's impenetrable reading)
"Art doesn't bean eddything to be. I didn't get where I am by drawing, dadcig, or baking byusic. I got where I am by licking a lot of yubby yubby boots."
I am very concerned about how factual documents can be maintained in AI systems. If AI trawls and picks things up but reality changes. How can that be managed? E.g drug formulation changes.
Those US companies have no doubt been scraping European works for years and I haven't heard of any measures being made to stop them.
*posts entire Dr Who library online for people to watch for free*
If you're from the UK, go on strike, protest, burn some shit or something. No leader should feel comfortable letting this kind of thing happen.
YOU WOULDN'T STEAL A CAR
Thatβs it
I didnβt want to assume consent, like the government are proposing!
(I asked on X too but duplicated here in case youβre here more)
ALSO! This relates to react content but can be used to interpret Ai
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xkwY29wtnoz3L55XAn-7mlG7AjS9ASyUoGjpKn4hQgs/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.vzewx6pvt6k4
This place is just Twitter.
GOODY
WASPI women refused.
Now this bollocks.
Gonna be a one term Gov at this rate.
Too, equipment required to run AI is not cost effective, unpromising. 1/2
The Uk doesn't care about consent
Please contact your MPs *now*.