Mickey Mouse (the Steamboat Willie version) is now public domain on the east coast of the US.
If you're on the east coast and want to create public domain mickey's, there's an AI for that. https://huggingface.co/Pclanglais/Mickey-1928
If you're out west, well, live dangerously...
Artists don't create a transform of the training data and perform a search on the result.
@resuna Sure they do. They just do it with biological neurons instead of silicon and copper pathways.
Um, no. Not even slightly.
@resuna Sure we do. Pretty much all art is a remix of previously explored techniques mixed with the artist's experiences. It's not that much different than AI mixing trained techniques with human prompts.
@resuna @andyb i mean, now you're moving the goalposts.
I pointed out that scanning large corpuses of copyright-covered data for commercial reasons has been found to be fair use, and you demanded citations.
I gave you them.
Now you're arguing something different.
It is difficult for me to believe you are engaging in this conversation honestly when you do that.
Furthermore, reducing all generative AI to "parody text and bad image generation" more or less confirms your bad faith.
Don't be silly... in neither of those cases did they just go ahead and say yeah you can do that it's okay. There needed to be a significant social good to allow the scanning as fair use. You are super simplifying these cases to try to argue that basically anything that you want to be allowed is fair use.
It's not clear that spicy autocomplete is even a good at all.
@resuna @andyb I simply pointed out that scanning, even for corporate, for profit reasons, can be fair use.
If you want to go further into the details of why this particular scanning is likely fair use, that's a different discussion. But suffice it to say, it is very likely fair use as well.
The scanning is quite obviously transformative. And if it's not, you'd destroy all sorts of useful data mining initiatives & research, not to mention things like screen readers for the blind.
You stated flat out that it was fair use, and that's not true. It might be. Japan thinks so. But it will take more than your flat assertion to establish that. And in the meantime for ChatGPT to be restricted from parodying Mickey Mouse, the poster child for excessive copyright, is ironic AF.
@mmasnick I clicked on the link, but it was VERY slow to render. Tomorrow (later today)...
Happy New Year, Mike!
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