...WHAT EVEN IS THIS?!?! Ever installed Windows? Edge everywhere. Guess the standard search engine in Edge? Here's a hint: It ain't Google. Bing is even in the start menu. This is perhaps most distinguished court proceeding in history of trying a kettle as black, perhaps the biggest in the history of pots even.
Listen, it's pretty simple. Copyright was made to protect creators on initial introduction to market. In modern times it's good if an artist has one lifetime, i.e their lifetime of royalties, so that they can at least make a little something - because for the small artist that little something means food on their plate.
But a company, sitting on a Smaug's hill worth of intellectual property, "forever less a day"? Now that's bonkers.
But you, scraping my artwork to resell for pennies on the dollar via some stock material portal? Can I maybe crawl up your colon with sharp objects and kindling to set up a fire? Pretty please? Oh pretty please!
Also, if you AI copies my writing style, I will personally find you, rip open your skull AND EAT YOUR BRAINS WITH A SPOON!!!! Got it, devboy?
Won't be Mr Hotshot with a pointy objects and a fire up you ass, as well as less than half a brain... even though I just took a couple of bites.
Chew on that one.
EDIT: the creative writer is doomed, I tells ya! DOOOOOOMED!
More distraction from the liberals. Ignoring the damage their economic policies have on society in search of the next scapegoat. Nazis? Transgenders?! TRANSGENDERED NAZIS?!. Wait! Let's have a red scare again! No! ESCALATE THE WAR ON DRUGS? But wait, maybe... the JEWS?!?! Brown Jews, even! Foreign, brown Jews, coming to take our jobs and whatnot! Transgendered, foreign, brown Jews, what come wanting to take our jobs, while forcibly changing our genders AND giving us a briss at the same time!!! WHILE DOING DRUGS!!!
You're all circle jerking around the problem. Proxy DNS and CDN's should be decentralised into standard protocols and not centralised into one company, for what should be obvious reasons (privacy being one of them).
I use CloudFlare on my websites and I feel like I don't have a choice. The fact that it's free to use proxy DNS is the kicker here, and the big selling point behind the DDoS protections. But the milliseconds CF DNS and page caching shave off page loads is also dangerous, because now it becomes mandatory if your websites are actually competing against someone else.
Again: this is a single entity, a single point of failure and in effect a monopoly. We don't just get to use it, we have to use it.
Of course one can't complain unless one has made an effort to do something about it, like I dunno, make a national version of CloudFlare?
Mwahahahaha! Didn't like that one, did you?!? Soon that will be mandatory and departments that investigate will honeypot your ass when they need a some justification for taking your in for a little private interrogation... wait, no, GO BACK!!
Okay, so protocols. Hard as fuck, static as hell. Yes? But, decentralised. Si? DNS proxying and content caches are staples of the modern internet. Content go quick, content go real quick ya. All we need to do is figure out a way to facilitate those things without having to rely on a single company, government body or even access to the many nodes that comprise the internet.
We used to write spec, damnit! We must return to the source. I have been some schmuck on the internet and this was my TL;DR.
The comparison between photography and AI generated images falls flat on its face when you think about it.
A camera requires not only human interaction, but going some place, setting up and having to process the image after the fact.
Contrast that with an AI farm constantly generating and squeezing out copyrightable material while scraping the web for any human made work it can emulate.
In the end what it will mean is that certain companies will be fuzzing the hell out of the copyright system to gain as much intellectual property as possible while diminishing the creative possibility of human beings.
It is in effect just a way to make companies richer and remove creative jobs from the market. Anybody who doesn't see that is naive.
BUT I think that in cases of that image you should be able to apply for copyright. But just automatically getting it, as is the law in many countries? No. That's a really bad idea.
Woa woa woa, how you gonna do my man like that? Also, he made captain. If he didn't let Janeway go to break the temporal prime directive there would be no more federation - just a whole lot of drones.
Hey EU. How about lowering that barrier to entry by pumping a couple of million Euro's into cold-room reverse engineering the API's and developing an open source alternative that can be distributed freely.
We'll invite Sony lawyers, Microsoft lawyers, watch them cope and seethe as their framework is made more open...
...aaaand then realising that a lot more people will take the shot to pay for actual licensing. Go figure.
But, but... money! Greed is good and definitely not degenerate! Just attend these liberal psy-op-I mean.. getyogethers to learn how we mentally pirouette through ideological justifications.
Aaaw. Publishers caring about authors? That's a big fat lie. Make no mistake, no matter what type of publisher, be it literary, musical, dramatic (TV & film), the only goal is to consolidate ingellectual property, employ predatory and lobsided contracts and then pretend that they represent the creators.
Fact is that lending, and also digital lending, has a negligible result on the author's bottom line. The publishers however want libraries gone because then they make their investors happy. That's it.
Know the motivation and intention behind this, because it isn't to protect the income of authors.
You're asking mostly people in the western world, a place besieged by a commodified property's market. The landed gentry is returning, only this time by way of capitalism.
There's a middle way there, because fuck me I've cut off so many man children the last month's. I'm now virtually completely alone, though that maybe just a feeling, but I'm so glad to not have to deal with pissing contests and massaging people's ego's all the time.
So yeah, sometimes it do be like that. If you are in toxic, abusive environments, GTFO.
Excuse me, but they're called Matt Groening and David X Cohen. I'd rather you reference Futurama instead, because The Simpsons is zombified and not how they deserve to be remembered.
The Yuan.. they'll be using the Yuan. Not at first, but as Xi Jinpeng's clutch grips their ghoulies, it'll be Yuan.