THE WAR AGAINST AI IP THEFT

GLAZE AND NIGHTSHADE: THE ARTISTS STRIKE BACK!

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Last month, The Technoskeptic crossposted Gary Marcus demonstrating how current AI is not truly generative, but rather a thin veneer slapped on copyrighted work while claiming it is not copyrighted.

AI companies and investors have been balking at licensing original works because it would be very financially inconvenient, per Chris Middleton's Diginomica article in November 2023. Middleton recounted statements of AI venture capitalists Andreessen Horowitz.

“‘..another part of the AI industry said the quiet part out loud this month. In a written note, VC investors Andreessen Horowitz (A16z) went as far as claiming that the billions of dollars plowed into AI companies have been “premised on an understanding that, under copyright law, any copying necessary to extract statistical facts is permitted…Under any licensing framework that provided for more than negligible payment to individual rights holders, AI developers would be liable for tens or hundreds of …