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nicky
@nicky

i know AI art generally sucks but increased copyright laws are bad and will only make things worse. it's distressing how many people think copyright will protect them and not the giant corporations these laws are actually for


lexyeevee
@lexyeevee

i don't want stronger copyright i just don't want a double standard. if your whole damn industry wants to get free art out of a machine oiled with the blood of a billion humans, you don't get to also claim that your work is super duper special and no one else can remix it


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this is really it

extremely related somehow: i fucking hate when people complain about things like enforcing the GNU GPL for the same reason. no i'm not a copyright maximalist i'm a "this stuff is a fuck even knows how many digits hours worth of labor, entirely free to use on ONE SINGLE condition and you did not fulfill it" maximalist, and letting companies steal shit with such a simple condition is actively worsening the present while doing absolutely jack shit to create the future i want