• @Grimy@lemmy.world
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    881 month ago

    Disney isn’t fighting for the little guy. They will still agressively use it to cull their own workforce. They want to control who can use it and don’t want to compete against an indie animation scene.

    This is corporate AI against open source AI.

    • @CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world
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      141 month ago

      This is corporate AI against open source AI.

      Show me where I can download Midjourneys full model to run it locally and then we can agree to call it “open weights”. Unless their base model and training data is also available, it’s not open source.

      • @Grimy@lemmy.world
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        51 month ago

        These lawsuits set precedents. The laws will apply to midjourney as much as the open source, but the big players can buy the data.

  • Tony Bark
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    581 month ago

    It’s hard to feel sympathetic for Disney when they have more money than god.

    • ViatorOmnium
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      281 month ago

      In this case that’s exactly what we need, someone with more money than god that can set precedents to protect the authors and artists that need it the most.

      • FaceDeer
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        561 month ago

        Disney is not going to protect authors and artists.

        • K☰NOPSIK
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          211 month ago

          Correct. If anything, Disney is only fighting somebody else exploiting their employees so they can protect their right to exploit their employees.

        • @lepinkainen@lemmy.world
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          91 month ago

          American law works on precedents, this will be one

          It doesn’t matter it was the evil empire getting that result

          • @Grimy@lemmy.world
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            It doesn’t matter it was the evil empire getting that result

            It does if it only benefits evil empires. The open source tools can’t afford the price which only leaves the big AI companies that can and Disney who holds the data.

            All this will do is add a fat price tag and censorship. Artists will not get paid and AI will not go away, the jobs will still be lost. It’s the worst of both worlds.

          • Balder
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            21 month ago

            So you really think now that Meta pirated all possible books (and argued they just didn’t seed them) the normal guys will get the same treatment?

      • Tony Bark
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        51 month ago

        I understand. That being said, my feelings remain mixed.

        • ViatorOmnium
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          61 month ago

          Paraphrasing Churchill, if AI companies were plagiarizing hell’s works I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil.

    • @die444die@lemmy.world
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      71 month ago

      And they just fired Terry Moran for the mildest tweet critical of the current administration imaginable.

      I legit just cancelled my Disney+/hulu/espn account over it.

    • @lmr0x61@lemmy.ml
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      51 month ago

      Hey man, the only people who can challenge the new oligarchs, so it seems, are the old oligarchs. And I say: let them fight!

    • @wise_pancake@lemmy.ca
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      41 month ago

      There are solid gold or platinum asteroids out there, but God only gave us the resources of earth in the bible.

      So God is definitely richer than Disney.

    • AwesomeLowlander
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      251 month ago

      We actually don’t. This won’t kill AI, this will mean only conglomerates like Disney can own AI.

  • FaceDeer
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    141 month ago

    Link to the article without the paywall

    New York Times Sues Fediverse Commenter for Copyright Infringement

  • @S_H_K@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    41 month ago

    I’d say do it more… generate more star wars media until Disney gives it up as a golden goose to milk. Doesn’t matter if it’s ai or whatever fuck disney…

  • Sibbo
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    11 month ago

    This is gonna be interesting. I really hope Disney wins. Then any artist can take this as a template to file their own lawsuits.

    • A Wild Mimic appears!
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      41 month ago

      when disney wins there will be nothing left to sue, with the result that now the entertainment industry, which has the available training data, will also have the AI technology, and the only one who profits is disney - because in this situation all open source GenAI is fucked.