Artificial intelligence firm Anthropic hits out at copyright lawsuit filed by music publishing corporations, claiming the content ingested into its models falls under ‘fair use’ and that any licensing regime created to manage its use of copyrighted material in training data would be too complex and costly to work in practice
GenAI tools ‘could not exist’ if firms are made to pay copyright::undefined
Yeah…it’s pretty weird. Feels like some folks have really dived into LLMs regardless of ethics and will do any amount of hand waving to avoid criticism of a for-profit company openly attacking creatives’ livelihood with their own uncompensated works. In an ideal world where it wasn’t a case of “earn or die cold and alone in the streets”, sure, but this is just robbing those workers of the fruits of their labor and burning the ladder while
I think the “neoliberal zeitgeist” thought may be correct as neoliberal ideology devalues anything and everything that is not solely profit-driven, including just about everything that humans have historically found to make life meaningful.
Yeah…it’s pretty weird. Feels like some folks have really dived into LLMs regardless of ethics and will do any amount of hand waving to avoid criticism of a for-profit company openly attacking creatives’ livelihood with their own uncompensated works. In an ideal world where it wasn’t a case of “earn or die cold and alone in the streets”, sure, but this is just robbing those workers of the fruits of their labor and burning the ladder while
I think the “neoliberal zeitgeist” thought may be correct as neoliberal ideology devalues anything and everything that is not solely profit-driven, including just about everything that humans have historically found to make life meaningful.