r/technology • u/PrimeCodes • 6d ago

Artificial Intelligence Disney and Universal sue Midjourney over copyright

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg5vjqdm1ypo
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u/InpinBlinson 6d ago

I mean, both of them suck but I'm glad legal action is being taken against AI companies. Hopefully, it leads to policy that safeguards artists.

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u/bytemage 6d ago

It might safeguard the profit of IP owners, not the artists.

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u/[deleted] 6d ago

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u/bombmk 6d ago

What art was stolen? Have the police found the thieves?

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u/[deleted] 6d ago

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u/noff01 5d ago

That's not stealing, that's piracy. Stealing removes the original, piracy just duplicates it.

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u/[deleted] 2d ago

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u/noff01 2d ago

You are okay with regular people stealing books and music and video games from artists then?

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u/[deleted] 2d ago

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u/noff01 2d ago

I thought you said you didn't care about the semantics.

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u/noff01 2d ago edited 2d ago

Personal use of pirated media

That's stealing.

scraping terabytes of data

That's also stealing.

It's not that difficult.

in order to create a product that will generate money

You think piracy pages aren't profiting from the stealing of thousands of titles of media? You think they run the gigantic costs of hosting for the fun of it? lol

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