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copyright.nova.edu Why Should Artists Subsidize OpenAI’s Bad Business Model? - Office of Copyright

In a recent filing with the UK Parliament, OpenAI stated: “It would be impossible to train today’s leading AI models without using copyrighted materials. Limiting training data to public domain books and drawings created more than a century ago might yield an interesting experiment, but would not pr...

Why Should Artists Subsidize OpenAI’s Bad Business Model? - Office of Copyright

I agree that the "fruits" of neural networks come from the proletarian artist, because without them, there cannot be any content made of this magnitude. The stunning images created by AI inherently rely on the labor of artists, so its commodity-value---its visual appeal---is thus identical to the labor-value that was scraped into its dataset. In layman's terms, the artists made the art, and AI imagery looks good because it was taken from that art.

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