Bloomberg reports on a rather dumb lawsuit against AI. Will Sasso and his team put together a fake video of George Carlin doing an after-death routine. Carlin’s estate sued on two grounds: copyright infringement for the text, and using the image and voice.
Seems like the estate’s lawyers should have done more research before filing.
The copyright infringement failed before trial when Sasso said that he and his team had written the text and only used AI for the animation. Bloomberg thinks the trademark side will also fail.
Most comedians are part-time imitators and some comedians are SOLELY mimics. Their text isn’t funny when you read it on paper; only the dissonance of placing words in the mouth of an imitated celebrity makes it funny.
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Output isn’t the crime of AI. Input is the crime. It absorbs millions of texts and videos, many of which are copyrighted, and uses them to create a monetizable output. Money makes it a crime.
AI securitizes creativity in the same way that Wall Street criminals securitize houses and companies.
Mixing and repackaging isn’t a crime if you’re PAYING for the source material. Campbells Soup mixes and repackages vegetables and meat, and it PAYS for the raw materials. Other manufacturers mix iron and wood and leather and petroleum into all sorts of products, and they PAY for the raw materials.
AI doesn’t pay for anything because it’s operated by Wall Street, which never never never pays for anything. Never pays for material, never pays for labor, never pays taxes. Just absorbs the universe like a black hole.
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