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This is essentially regulatory capture. The article is very lax on calling it what it is.
A few things to consider:
Laws can't be applied retroactively, this would essentially close the door behind Openai, Google and Microsoft. Openai with sora in conjunction with the big Hollywood companies will be the only ones able to do proper video generation.
Individuals will not be getting paid, databrokers will.
They can easily pay pennies to a third world artist to build them a dataset copying a style. Styles are not copyrightable.
The open source scene is completely dead in the water and so is fine tuning for individuals.
Edit: This isn't entirely true, there is more leeway for non commercial models, see comments below.
AI isn't going away, all this does is force us and the economy into a subscription model.
Companies like Disney, Getty and Adobe reap everything.
In a perfect world, this bill would be aiming to make all models copyleft instead but sadly, no one is lobbying for that in Washington and money talks.
Yup, I fucking knew it. I knew this is what would happen with everyone bitching about copyright this and that. I knew any legislation that came as a result was going be bastardized and dressed up to make it look like it's for everyone when in reality it's going to mostly benefit big corps that can afford licensing fees and teams of lawyers.
People could not/would not understand how these AI models actually processes images/text or the concept of "If you post publicly, expect it to be used publicly" and here we are....
As always, the anprims/luddites/ecofashies (who downvoted me) are like an anvil to left-wing ideas of progress, we're too busy arguing amongst ourselves to make a stand to protect open source AI from regulation.
Honestly I blame Hbomberguy personally. People were a lot more open-minded before he tacked on that shitty little AI snark at the end of his plagiarism video.