Disney sues AI image generator Midjourney
Midjourney runs a diffusion model that you can ask to generate pictures. Disney and Universal and several other movie studios have sued because Midjourney keeps spitting out their copyrighted chara…
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While I hate AI, I hate copyright even more. I want copyright protections to erode as much as possible, but the AI-specific exceptions that has seem to pop up is not filling me with hope. The current laws are trash and we shouldn't want to expand the power Disney holds even more, it will only hurt artists.
We need some form of copyright otherwise if you make some content nothing would stop people from selling it and keeping the money for themselves. But it doesn't need to last nearly as long as it does currently.
Of course, I just dont think that the curent laws harbor innovation or creativity.
Yeah, I believe there is a sweet spot where small creators can profit off of a work for a long time but not so long that companies seek to hoard it. Plus, the larger the public domain is the more we can remix things into new adaptations. In some ways, large brands got popular through the public domain and then took up the ladder so no others could.
We need some form of copyright otherwise if you make some content nothing would stop people from selling it and keeping the money for themselves. But it doesn't need to last nearly as long as it does currently.
