“the girls are fighting, aren’t they?”
Imagine if Midjourney wins and the only thing you need to legally pirate anything is to self host a LLM.
“Dont mind me officer, Im just training my (brain) model”
If Midjourney wins, other media corporations are going to host bigger and better LLMs and do the pirating. The “prompters” who think that they’re being fighting corporations are the best corporate tools.
AFAIK, you don’t actually need actually need an LLM to do it, as long as you do what Meta did and not upload anything at all. The one who did the copyright infringement is the one who supplied the data to you.
Seeding illegal, leeching legal! This is not advice, be kind and seed!
I imagine that they could find that leeching is illegal if you upload anything to any other torrent clients. I think Meta was claiming they were literally in the clear because they were being assholes and configuring their clients not to share at all.
But yeah, keep your ratio above 1, or you’re a jerk.
let them fight
♫“Do you wanna file a lawsuit?”♫
The future of piracy is going to be running your own LLM with all the corpo-mandated guardrails disabled.
So obviously actually being an artist who draws things and someone using an AI slop machine are very different in practice, but I find it interesting that they’re saying the images are unauthorized copies. Is it illegal to draw these characters now too? Or is it different because a human did it?
The argument could be made that because the image generator is essentially a regurgitator with no artistic interpretation, there is no transformative artistic value in it. It’s like applying a filter with extra steps.
Also the generators charge for access, so they are profiting off of the IP. That’s quite different to making something for personal use or releasing it for free.
I’m pretty sure it is illegal but tolerated. If drawing is legal, I don’t understand why Fan game’s are illegal then.
It has always been an infringement to draw their characters lol (apart from fair use which doesn’t apply to most works)
They can and do issue takedowns for drawings all the time, but yes, they are more lenient when people create them
I remember there used to be images to trick t-shirt bots, in a bid to get the companies behind them sued by disney.
Above all of this should be the glaringly historical fact that Hollywood was literally founded to escape lawyers for European film groups trying to bring those founders-to-be to justice for their, well, piracy of said films… 🤷🏼♂️ I mean, if anyone should deserve an ol’ fashioned legal rogering, it’s those hypocritical backbirths.
AFAIK it was more about getting away from Thomas Edison’s patents.
That is also true, considering he was an infamous patent troll of his time. Fuckin’ killed our boy Nikolai, by proxy, and now the ass-clown is named as the inventor of all manner of things he stole from other, more capable innovators. Fuck him sideways with a Faraday pineapple.
That’s why I never contribute much at work past the bare minimum. Someone else takes credit every time. I just watch them fail instead.
