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There is no such thing as ethics in regurgitative AI (Artificial Idiot). That has been thrown away since the very beginning since models are trained off of vast amounts of stolen works.
Intellectual property shouldn’t be a thing anyway. But that cuts both ways, companies should release their model weights freely instead of hoarding them.
If you train on public data, you should release public models. It’s that simple.
Intellectual property should exist to protect the works made but the time works are protected should be vastly reduced. From a lifetime plus 60 years to 20-30 years, still plenty of time to make money off of them but also not too long where people can’t legally tinker with the property within their lifetime.
When it comes to how intellectual property interacts with ai models it should be you pay for the right to use it unless it has already crossed into the public domain. Things like social media posts would still require permission from the creator to use. Because while it is in the public eye, it is still someone else’s work. For example just because a street mural is in the public eye, it is not mean it belongs to the public.
Why though? IP only protects those who have money to litigate, eg. big corporations, not individual artists.
Hell, most indie artists I know make their money blatantly violating copyright by selling fanart.
The world would lose nothing of value if copyright suddenly disappeared.
Just because it was stolen doesn't mean the theft should be ignored.
I whole heartedly agree that the theft of the works shouldn’t be ignored. It’s why I said there is no ethics in this field because of that. These companies should be punished massively for their theft and reparations should be paid out if we lived in a just society.