@arstechnica I always like the word "allegedly". There's no proof it did happen and you can make up fictional sums in damage you MIGHT POSSIBLY would have had in the future. It's like praying for money but here unlike in religion praying actually works. Every time.
@arstechnica Why do music labels get more protection than any other rights holder from AI piracy?
OpenAI, among others, openly told us it couldn't have existed at all if it had been required to get rights to the things from which it derived ChatGPT.
I feel like this is pretty blatantly a case of some animals being more equal than others.
@arstechnica These record labels are moochers. Make your own AI rather than try to shut down meaningful competition. Training AI for research purposes is fair use and AI training should be fair use period.
Why, I’m old enough to remember when the RIAA sued my then-employer, MP3•com, in 2000–twenty-four long years ago—for exactly the same thing. $67 billion lawsuit I think it was.
Record labels won in the end. Vivendi Universal wound up owning what was left of MP3 after that debacle.
I'm not a fan of the record labels, but they are in the right here. Hopefully this puts some LLM Bros right out of business. Of course, the LLM "startus" are backed by big tech's moneyed neofascist oligarchs so it's hard to see where this ends up.
@arstechnica crybabies most things are 60 to 90 similar of same items usage purpose so songs should be able to be 60% same lyrics and 60% same music and u can not touch them and only a little money for 80 % similar and little more payment per song n money u make if song is 90% same