GEMA’s social media game is certainly top. Nice to see the money being put to good use.

If all seats are filled,

Sure. Everyone’s Taylor Swift. Let’s just assume that.

The actual truth is that if you do not play GEMA music, you have to provide evidence of that to GEMA. Young musicians who foolishly reason that they don’t have anything to do with GEMA will be dragged through court.

Fair Use exists only in the US. I believe it is part of the reason why the US became so culturally dominant. It certainly is why the internet is US dominated. European copyright laws are stifling.

GEMA was created by the Nazis to take over pop culture. There’s a certain logic there.

Of course, under the Nazis you could be sent to camp if you belonged to the wrong subculture. So there is a difference. The rebels of the time listened to jazz, to swing. “Negro music” was the social media of that age, corrupting the youth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-circumvention

It wouldn’t be so easy. Such restrictions would have to be limited to those demonstrably necessary and narrowly tailored to fulfill a compelling government interest.

Yes. I think the last time I heard of Montana was in The Hunt for Red October.

I wonder if this would make it illegal to cut off someone’s internet if they are accused of piracy. Probably that sort of thing still goes.

It might provide a protection against anti-circumvention laws and such; laws that make it criminal to mess with hardware DRM on your devices.

Copyright is the bigger problem. The lack of a sensible Fair Use equivalent makes a lot of “tech” impossible. GDPR is a problem, too, but for AI it is the smaller problem. The media sees itself as benefitting from the broken copyright laws, while GDPR cuts into their profits. So that’s why the public discussion is completely skewed.

It’s a given that the EU’s reliance on foreign IT companies will increase. Europe is deeply committed to this copyright ideology, that demands limiting and controlling the sharing of information. It’s not just a legal but a cultural commitment, as can be seen in these discussions on Lemmy. Look for reforms to the Data Act. That’s the latest expansion of this anti-enlightenment nonsense and it really has the potential to turbocharge the damage to the existing industry.

Nice try. But this is explicitly the “Authors’ Guild” and others.

Interesting to see the reactions here; how they differ from other lawsuits that pit “authors” and “artists” against tech companies.

We have our own local home grown cliques that capture gov contracts.

Yes. If you scroll to the bottom, you find that the project is led by Prof. Francesca Bria.

Looking her up on Wikipedia, one has 2 thoughts: 1) She has a lot of hustle. 2) Why haven’t I heard about any of that?

This is just the Monorail Man doing the song. Except with disturbingly fascist overtones.

I was just a little surprised to see the familiar name but I don’t quite remember why. Maybe because of the downvotes.

Oh. By Bruce Schneier.

Yes, the archiving and republishing would be illegal in most countries, but not in the US. Fair Use

They didn’t face trouble over archiving the net, but over digitally lending e-books and audio.

What’s AmeBlog?

I had a look at what tumblr says and it’s probably a good option. It’s not likely that they will try to find sneaky ways around the settings. The liability risk is in no relation to the potential gain from selling that data. Under EU law, such opt-outs must be respected when training AI. For now, the major US companies can be expected to abide by that. In the future, we may see special models for the EU. A few open source models by Chinese companies already exclude use in the EU.

Reducing scraping takes skill and a major effort, which tumblr can bring. A catch is that there is a conflict between serving images to lots of people but not to scrapers. Sufficiently determined large scale scraping operations will still succeed, but maybe no one will feel that it’s worth the effort anymore. It’s impossible to prevent individuals from saving images. So AI hobbyists or small artists could still use your images for training and share the products. When fans re-upload your images, they may become part of large scale datasets after all.

It depends on what exactly you want to achieve. If you want money, then upload it to Adobe, Shutterstock, and such. That’s the best offer you can expect. No one will offer you big bucks for an AI license just because you have protected your drawings.

If you want to have your own site, then you could rely on Cloudflare for handling the technical and legal side of preventing scraping/AI use.

But I guess the main worry for any artist is other artists who use AI. That’s where Glaze and Nightshade come in. It’s already been suggested but you should know how much you can expect.

These tools target the original Stable Diffusion 1.5. IIRC they also work on SD 2.0 because they reused some components. I am not sure what other versions, if any, could be affected. Certainly not the newer ones.

It goes without saying that the major companies were never affected, could not be affected. Since no one mentions it, I guess it’s self-evident but I want to repeat it for the uninitiated.

I think these early models are still used partly because they have lower hardware demands and partly because they are less professionally censored (ie more suitable for porn).

Anyway, the effectiveness against hobbyists, your competitors, or other small scale AI users, is also limited. They may not use a susceptible model, especially if they make SFW images. If their model is susceptible, then these tools may waste a few hours of their time and maybe a bit of money. But it won’t get rid of the competition or even significantly harm them.

I know in which hole the alcohol goes. I also know in which hole the young men go, at least according to “missionaries”. Which leaves one hole for god, which also happens to be the one that people recommend when Jehovah’s Witnesses bother them.

As a man of the world, I know, of course, that the god hole can also be fruitfully used for/by alcohol and young men, implying that Kayleigh was quite fun at parties. “Outnumbered”, indeed.

If you’ve ever felt like some overly religious person was acting like they have a stick up their ass. Well, now you know.

Maybe it’s time to have a little think about that word, “influencer”, and how that is a job with which people make money.

It’s also funny how Lemmy is buying up this narrative.

The entire US economy is currently being propped up by growth in the AI/tech sector.

What’s happening is that Dementia Don is curb-stomping the US economy. AI investments, mainly in data centers, are the only thing that still seems promising. When you are on a trek and someone leads you through Death Valley, while pouring out all the water, you shouldn’t blame the last horse that still keeps going.

Putting the blame in the right place would certainly help, with a view toward the mid-terms.

Financially: Diversify. Make sure that you are not completely dependent on what happens in the US. But mind that Europe comes with its own imponderable risks (ie Putin). Same with China. Maybe some old leader dies and the new crew runs everything into the ground; they go to war with Taiwan, that sort of thing.

“so far”