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Reid Southen@rahll.bsky.social · 11mo ago

🔥 Warner Bros is suing Midjourney!🔥 They've cited mine and Gary's work like in the other suit, including that I was banned for criticizing the company. This now means Midjourney is being sued by Warner Bros, Disney, Universal, and the class action from artists. Let's gooo! 🔥

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Reid Southen@rahll.bsky.social · last yr.

🔥 It's happening! Disney and Universal are suing Midjourney and they cited mine and Gary Marcus' work exposing their infringement in their filing. LET'S GO! 🔥

Karla Ortiz@kortizart.bsky.social · last yr.

1/4 Well look at that. Open Ai and Google outright reject “Opt-Out” models, hell they even reject basic transparency requirements. AI companies demand they get everything, including our Intellectual Property, for free, and without anyone ever being able to tell the companies no.

AI giants reject government’s approach to solving copyright row

OpenAI and Google have objected to Labour’s proposed opt-out model and pushed for broader exemptions to let AI software use copyrighted material free

thetimes.com

Karla Ortiz@kortizart.bsky.social · last yr.

Company Travel Lemming submitted this letter and it’s fire! 🔥 This is the exact stance all companies and orgs that do not Google and Open Ai to take and use their creations to for free, should take!

Re: National Science Foundation's Request for Information on the Development of an Artificial Intelligence (Al) Action Plan "Google's illegal conduct has created an economic goliath, one that wreaks havoc over the marketplace to ensure that—no matter what occurs—Google always wins." -United States Department of Justice (US v Google, Case 1:20-cv-03010-APM, ECF 1184) Travel Lemming is an American small business under threat of censorship by, and theft from, Big Tech companies like Google and OpenAl. Travel Lemming urges the administration to reject the proposals of those companies for a reverse wealth transfer from millions of American creators and rightsholders to these two abusive corporations. Instead, the administration should create an Al Action Plan that protects smaller creators and publishers, maintains copyright protections, facilitates a robust and competitive licensing marketplace, and requires transparency and disclosure of all Al-generated content. 1) Any Al Action Plan Must Not Undercut Copyright's Incentive to Create Fundamentally, generative Al is an extractive technology. It works like a compression algorithm: reducing its training material to weights and biases that are then "uncompressed" when prompted for an output. The key point is that generative Al can only ever be as good as the material that it was trained on. LLMs cannot experience the world, therefore they are limited by their training material. LLMs require new, fresh human-created material in order to function. If America is to remain competitive in the Al age, we must make sure that the incentive to create is not eroded. That is unfortunately exactly what the proposals by OpenAl and Google would do:(Full statement is edited for brevity in Alt) they want this administration to give them a corporate handout by changing copyright law to allow them to freely train on material that they did not create. Why should Big Tech companies be allowed to steal from millions of American creators? Being a creator is one of the most coveted careers by Generation Z. Yet, that career path will be totally closed off if Google and OpenAl get their way. It is essential to freedom that these large corporations not be permitted to steal content from creators and publishers like us. 2) Google Is Already Using Al to Censor the Web and Control the Flow of Information to the American Public Google and OpenAl are not companies that can be trusted by America. We can attest to that from personal experience. Google in particular wants to use Al to pivot from being a search engine to being an "answer engine." They trained their Al on publishers, and now Google's goal with Al is to become the singular publisher of all information on the Internet. For example, at Google I/O 2024, the company announced that in the future "Google will do the Googling for you." Google's plan is clear: Google wants to control the Internet ecosystem. In this future, "Google.com" will become the Internet, a single mega-website that users never need to leave. Users will be steered towards publishers and information that Google approves. Google is also currently in the process of erasing human creators - like our website - from the open web. For instance, on September 14, 2023, Google changed its publisher guidelines to remove its previous instruction that content should be "created by humans, for humans." That very same day, Google released the first of several algorithm updates that erased many small publishers (including us) from Google search results. 3) Generative Al Output is Not Fair Use When it Competes With the Original Creator(edited to fit ALT limit ) When an Al output competes with the material it is trained on, it is not fair use.' Yet, Google and OpenAl continue to push generative Al as a tool that competes with those of us who created the original data. Virtually every Al product demonstration by these companies includes an "Al travel planner" use case (example). These use cases fundamentally seek to replace American travel publishers like us, the same publishers whose content was used to train these systems. If Google is allowed to train on our data without our consent or compensation, publishers like us could be put out of business. 4) Even Google Has Admitted that Creators Should Get Paid When Their Data is Used by Al Models Google CEO Sundar Pichai told the New York Times DealBook Summit that: "There will be a marketplace in the future, I think. There will be creators who create for Al models and get paid for it. I really think that's part of the future and people will figure it out." Google has even done Al licensing deals with some entities, like paying $60 million per year in licensing fees to Reddit. But now Google asks this administration to pull up the ladder for small rightsholders, publishers, and creators. This administration should not sanction Google's effort to steal from small publishers. It should not allow Google to build a centralized Internet where only a few voices, selected by Google, can be heard. 5) The Administration's Al Action Plan Should Focus on Transparency for Users, and Control and Compensation for Creators First, the government should ensure that publishers and creators have effective consent mechanisms so that we can decide when and where our content is used by Al systems. Right now, Google presents publishers with a Hobson's choice: either block your content from appearing in Google search results (effectively erasing your business from the Internet), or let Google's Al products use your content to inform their outputs (and compete against you).Tech companies should be forced to give granular control to rightsholders, so that we can choose when, where, and how our content is used. Furthermore, any Al Action Plan must encourage a robust licensing marketplace, so that the incentive to create is preserved. Google and OpenAl are spending billions of dollars (perhaps trillions) on datacenters for compute. They are literally building nuclear reactors to power their generative Al businesses. These companies should be required to at least equally invest in the humans that create the data that power these models. In their comments on the Al Action Plan, both Google and OpenAl admit that training data has immense economic value. This administration should ensure that the value generated by that data accrues to the creators of that data. Lastly, transparency is an important value that should be advanced by any Al Action Plan. Right now, much of the Al content on the Internet is not labeled as such. Many users consume content without even knowing it is Al generated. The Al Action Plan should include provisions to require disclosure that content is created with Al, so as to prevent deception of American consumers and voters. In summary, the administration's Al Action Plan should advance the interests of regular Americans over the interests of a few giant California corporations. Google and OpenAl in particular cannot be trusted, and the government's plan should seek to devolve power from these entities - not concentrate it further in their (untrustworthy) hands. Thank you for the opportunity to comment on these important issues. About Travel Lemming: Travel Lemming is an American online travel guide that creates travel guides by humans, for humans. Travel Lemming publishes highly useful and information-packed articles. Our team consists of dozens of local and expert travelers with deep familiarity with each destination.
Karla Ortiz@kortizart.bsky.social · last yr.

If you are in any creative or copyright dependent org of any kind, NOW is the time to speak up. You have until March 15 11:59 pm EST to send a note to the WhiteHouse on why we need to follow our current laws. We all lose if tech’s deranged agenda passes. www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-st...