Disney sues Midjourney

[doctorbadwolf]

Good. I despise Disney as a company, but someone big had to get involved for us to have any real hope of stopping the AI companies.

 

[BookTenTiger]

It is an interesting question. Generative AI is an unambiguously powerful and useful technology. But it requires a huge amount of data to train. So, how do we (as a society, I mean) build it ethically?

You see lots of people just dismiss the technology completely based on how it was created, but that doesn't answer the bigger, frankly more important questions.

Pay people when you use their work? It's not like companies like Meta are hurting for cash, they're just choosing to create their tools through theft.

 

[trappedslider]

Sure, and get dragged for it all the same.

they already get dragged for various things, what's one more?

 

[Scribe]

they already get dragged for various things, what's one more?

I'm sure actual artists would have something to say about that "one more" thing being them replaced and not providing for their families?

 

[trappedslider]

I'm sure actual artists would have something to say about that "one more" thing being them replaced and not providing for their families?

They've gotten dragged for the live action remakes, most recently the change to how lio and stich ended. Dragged over Star wars, marvel etc.

I'm sure the artist have contracts at least i hope they do, otherwise Disney may weigh the pros and cons, and switch to AI generation. In which case, I'd expect a strike along with law suits from the artist.

 

[Scribe]

They've gotten dragged for the live action remakes, most recently the change to how lio and stich ended. Dragged over Star wars, marvel etc.

Right, from my view they are not exactly covering themselves in glory.

That's no reason to continue to be trash and embrace AI. They could...stop doing things people dislike instead.

 

[trappedslider]

That's no reason to continue to be trash and embrace AI. They could...stop doing things people dislike instead.

I think that ship sailed long ago.

 

[Scribe]

I think that ship sailed long ago.

Nope.

 

[Reynard]

Pay people when you use their work? It's not like companies like Meta are hurting for cash, they're just choosing to create their tools through theft.

That's fine and seems simple.

But what about the data from message boards, like this one. If OpenAI makes a deal with ENWorld to use all the contents of these boards in their training data (not insignificant) am I, Reynard, entitled to some of that money (proportional to the amount of words of mien that are published here)?

Anyone who offers you a simple solution to a complex problem is either lying or not thinking it through.

 

[Pale Violet Light]

Generative AI is an unambiguously powerful and useful technology

Useful for what? Making uncanny valley images? Writing bad cover letters? Humans can already do this handily.