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I wish I could think anything positive about this, but I can’t imagine anyone who actually cares about music needs or wants this. Instead it’ll almost certainly be used as an illegal and unethical dataset to further train bullshit AI to make slop songs. As easy as it is for people to claim “preservation”, I do have to question the motives of stuff like this…

Fuck AI. Support your favorite human artists.

Gay sex is famously apolitical. 🙄

Ooof. And it’s only going to get more expensive when the AI industry is no longer able to afford to subsidize it with buttloads of investment money.

To be perfectly honest, I’d still be against it as long as it is trained on the stolen work of regular people.

Not only is it devoid of artistry and creativity, generative AI as it is today is cultural exploitation and plagiarism on an unprecedented industrial scale. It’s incredibly unethical on top of being slop.

We were told that games were “art”, and that this new “creative” medium that we grew up with really mattered. Many of us (gamers and gamedevs alike) happily agreed…

But where is the artistry in outsourcing your assets to the big tech slop machine? What is creative about outsourcing your design, code and storytelling to an LLM?

Is it easy? Sure… Quick? Maybe… Cheap? For now, while big tech is happy to prop it up with other people’s money.

But it’s not cool and it’s not “art”. Like every piss filtered Studio Ghibli knockoff, there’s no artistry or creativity in it whatsoever. (They know that too, which is why companies are trying to hide or understate their use of AI.)

I just hope that they aren’t naively expecting people to pay full price, or even at all, for AI slop games.

Some US States

None of the even remotely good ones. Why is Denmark trying to be Alabama, again?

Gotta give Denmark credit, they’re really going for the Shittiest Western European Country Award. Granted, I’m from the USA and we’re obviously an unmitigated disaster, but like, what the fuck are you guys doing? Competing for attention?

Bad take for two reasons:

1. Being consistently funny requires intellect and general cleverness. You can’t be quick witted if you’re stupid.

2. More importantly we are all mostly ignorant. You could have a PhD in 3 topics and have spent years in higher education, and you still know only a tiny speck of all that there is to know.

I’m not a fan of Jimmy Carr, especially after the Saudi shit, and I fucking hate AI. But the idea that we shouldn’t value the opinions of artists is pretty dumb. There are plenty of smart artists with interesting things to say and unique perspectives.

Definitely not just a coincidence.

People are acting like this is a win for OpenAI and the AI industry, but I think this is potentially a major victory for IP holders like Disney.

Up until now, the core assumption from the industry around AI has been that it is all fair use, and thus no license (or even so much as basic consent) was needed to train on copyrighted works or produce output resembling specific trademarked IP.

Now Disney and OpenAI have come to an agreement that explicitly allows OpenAI to produce videos of their characters, but from what I can tell does not allow them to train on Disney’s works to do it.

This deal lasts only 3 years, and so what happens is they don’t renew it 3 years from now? What does it mean for the other AI companies that are producing Disney IP without this agreement? What about all the other character and person likenesses that Sora is producing without any such agreement?

Essentially, I think this has allowed Disney to put the ball back in their court. They are deciding who does and doesn’t use their characters. They have put value into the idea of licensing trademarks for AI use. And I think this sets a dangerous precedent for AI companies, because what does this mean for all of the IP holders who they aren’t in an agreement with?