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For all those cheering on the copyright mafia going after Anthropic, consider that some of the groups supporting anthropic against this massive overreach of "we get to decide how you use our works" include:
Maybe this is not such a great thing?
It's pretty simple: if Antropic wins, that's the end of the US copyright law, replaced by the diktat of the tech bros (worse for artists, and for anyone else but the tech oligarchs). If Antropic loses, nothing changes and we get to fight the (comparatively tiny) copyright mafia for another day.
if i understand us law procedures correctly it could actually strengthen copyright law by becoming a precedent
In which way do you expect this to strengthen copyright laws? Also, from the article, it reads like Anthropic implicitly admits to copyright infringement, and that their defence essentially boils down to "if you prosecute us, we will go bankrupt". I don't see how that flies, but then again, IANAL :-)
i don't know, but there have been cases in other areas where failure to convict have basically become grounds for not prosecuting those cases. again, i don't know much about common law, it's not used here.
Indeed. I want AI companies to get regulated into smithereens, but not through expansion of copyright law. There would be too much collateral damage, and it wouldn’t even work.
Yet so far it seems the only real solution at hand. Under the Cheeto, AI companies basically have free reign to race for who gets to make the first Skynet, nobody cares anymore as long as it's more more more, and the goal justifies the means. Sacrifice the environment, humanity, everything, as long as shareholders get a lot of money.
The copyright lobby, on the other hand, has been doing this shit since forever, I doubt things can get much worse on their side