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Copyright (or IP law more broadly) does a variety of things, good and bad. I’d like to see us keep the good and ditch the bad.
The good:
Until AI, these were pretty trivial concerns.
You could easily Google something to find out who made it. And computers produce exact copies by default, so how likely are you to run into a malformed approximation of the original thing?
But now, these are both under serious threat.
The bad:
You’ll notice I left out the most obvious thing: “It gives creators a legal monopoly to prevent them getting out-competed by wealthy vulture corporations copying them.”
That’s cuz as long as they can pre-emptively force creators to sign over the rights, copyright doesn’t protect creators — it does the opposite.
I think AI only gets rid of the good parts of copyright, while doing nearly nothing about the bad parts.
We desperately need copyright reform. But it should not be rewritten by big AI interests.