America would never do this. You don't have any rights here. We have the right to remain silent and thats about it

I admittedly don't understand how it has some how become easy for people, especially young people, to utilize this stuff. You can do image generation with a sufficiently strong GPU. But training requires power and VRAM.

As far as I can tell it's also limited to nVidia (except it appears all the image stuff for AMD works on Linux?) so it's expensive, you have to do so many things to set up simple image generation, and I imagine training for particular people (or anything) has to be harder to set up.

Otherwise deepfakes are just doing what Photoshop always did? Arguably Photoshop was a cheaper and easier method of creating them.

I have this feeling that generative AI is being used to normalize the idea of weaponizing it. "It took people's jobs! It made people naked and created libelous things!" Or as a means to crack down on hardware used for... Video games?

I could just be insane, but it always seems like when something seems bad, something worse is behind it.

You have the right, but will you have the ability when the water starts to pour?

You mean the water we polluted with industrial waste.?? That water? Or the metaphorical water that they will use to waterboard us with to force fake confessions??

Ooh, you can’t acquire the rights to your face in the app, or the website. You need to book an appointment at the secretary of state and bring at least two people who witnessed your birth.

No they mean my sweet golden nectar. Open up for the pee pee train.

So you’ve never enjoyed art, music, books, films or TV? Ever?

Feel like this more than just deepfakes toox would it apply to assholes recording you in public without the person’s consent?

Ursula Buffay?

People made art before copyright.

I think you suggest a fallacy: just because a law is related to a thing, doesn't mean the law makes/helps/enhances the thing.

Ain't no way this was written whilst sober

IMO, better to get laws in place early and refine them over time, than not at all.

So... Move fast and break things?

Nah because I'm a transformitive work. My parents didn't make these gainz.

Before copyright, art was the domain of the rich, the amateur, or those with patronage. Copyright allows artists to make a living from their work.

Wouldn’t matter, because in America all the big IT companies (Apple, Meta, Amazon etc.) would promptly add a line to their EULAs stating that by using their service, you grant them an irrevocable, transferable lifetime licence to your copyright.

Them being forced to include these terms is a win in and of itself, but it still protects people who otherwise had no protections even if they didn't use these services.

Technically the rights to your face are as official as any other individual documentation or rights you each had. Does your ID really belong to you? Whats stopping your twin from claiming ownership of it? How does law enforcement go about processing you? These issues have come up before and will again.

I can imagine situations where this is a bad idea, such as making almost all journalism illegal because you don't have to legal right to cover news about an individual.

Hopefully they plan for that.

I fear it would be a pyrrhic victory at best; all it takes is one instance of acceptance (via smartphone update, or an infinite number of other avenues) for it to propagate to every other entity.

That’s actually before encountering ownership issues of photos, as it usually is the photographer who owns the copyright to an image - and if they upload that photo to a service and agree for it to be trained upon; what happens next?

I think you might be overestimating cooperation between these companies, but it's definitely a valid concern.