Microsoft should go macro-shaft themselves.

Yes, but framing is important. Saying “Oh look what our perfect corporate buddies over at Taylor let us do even though it’s their call” (a huge lie btw.) vs. saying “We finally got this victory, we can finally do part of what we should’ve never have been unable to do due to corporate greed, thank you Taylor for getting some sense, it seems like your scrooges still have some semblance of a soul left” is a big difference. As always, the truth is somewhere in between these two extremes. However, I’m inclned to lean towards the latter more than the former on the spectrum.

God. I can’t believe how the bots are shifting the Overton window and how successful they are.

I’d say “Russian trolls”, but there’s no saying they are Russian. The view on Lemmy a few months ago was pretty homogenous - whatever happens, Kamala is lightyears ahead of Trump on anything related to sanity. Then suddenly the “Jill Stein is a russian shill” narrative came, followed by “A vote for Kamala is a vote for genocide” (while everything points to the fact that Kamala is the best option for deescalation as far as the US ballot box options go).

Oh, if Disney Corp could use the mouse pointer or the one on your desk, or even a living breathing mouse, or whatever else mouse or not rest assured - if killing you somehow benefits them they’ll do it. They might do it from sheer incompetence too and they’ll try to write it off as business as usual. Also, it applies to anyone you know for good measure.

It’s not twitter it’s Xitter!

If anyone deserves copyright over a photo, it’s the people that had their work photographed without permission. Then, the most deserving of the copyright are the camera and film manufacturers that made photography possible.

I think this is an angle that isn’t pften taken. The advent of photography was a very similar situation to the current advent of AI.

However, there are some crucial differences. For example, a photo can realistically be taken for personal use, which is either protected by law, or at least tolerated. AI, on the other hand, doesn’t have this going for it (you wouldn’t really go to the trouble of training an AI model for personal use). Even if the model and everything else is fully transparent and open source, it’s still gobbling up copyrighted data for commercial purposes - the model’s authors or the users’. Luckily, there is no AI fair use carveout (and I hope there won’t ever be one).

Another thing I’d like to point out: in the vast majority of european legal systems copyright isn’t called “Copyright”, but “Authors’ rights”, i.e. its primary purpose isn’t to restrict copying as much as it’s protect the interests of the author (not publisher/corporation, although this unfortunately got bastardised a while ago).

I can only hope the EU takes a reasonable approach to AI (that is, ban it from gobbling copyrighted work, require current “tainted” models be purged along with corporations paying reparations to the authors, as well as banning EULA clauses along the lines of “by signing up we get to feed all your information into the AI”).

By my first comment I was trying to point out the fact that the “time invested” argument isn’t that strong. That doesn’t mean there aren’t better arguments or that I don’t agree with the general idea, just that we need better arguments if we want to win this fight.

A game you paid for. On a console you also paid for. And you also pay for PS Plus as well.

While some just snap a photo. And both are equally copyrightable

but not the misuse of public content

Is that an admission that they don’t own the content others posted on their site?

He’ll superpollute

Might as well use Zoom instead

The first one got confiscated.

He cheaped out on the second.

Now he has to jack up the prices and fire a few workers so he can save up for a proper one in a few years. Third time’s the charm!

Think about the economy! The 10 fired gamedevs are gonna find new employment easily while the chef, 4 security guards, captain and 10 crew are much less in demand!

The horse knows and it doesnt care

Dionysius is the smurf in the picture

That’s why we need right to repair

The nicest part is that according to my (admittedly very limited) knowledge of ancient greek, you’d read Οώθ as “Oof”

I swear I’ve seen this meme somewhere with a Cybertruck instead of a Wrangler

Or “protect and serve their egos”. Implies both their own egos and those of the higher class

Kind of unrelated, but couldn’t this be prosecuted (among other things) on 4th amendment grounds, as I doubt “threathening people with a stick” isn’t protected (assuming qualified immunity otherwise) Although I doubt the curent SCOTUS lineup would come to any sensible decision on any matter.

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