OpenAI's viral Studio Ghibli moment highlights AI copyright concerns | TechCrunch
date linked: 27 March 2025
source: link to article, from techcrunch.com
Generative AI products make me mad, I don’t like them, and I’m not going to defend them. That said, if this gets framed as a copyright problem, is there any way to give Studio Ghibli (or Pixar or the Seuss estate) power to cry foul here that doesn’t also shut down fan art, parodies, and the like? I’m skeptical, and that’s why I think “labor” is the more productive—if more legally ambiguous—framing here.
similar posts:
đź”— linkblog: OpenAI, Mass Scraper of Copyrighted Work, Claims Copyright Over Subreddit's Logo'
I have lots of concerns about LLM training, but I think it’s better to think of the issue in terms of digital labor, not copyright. My blog is licensed for reuse, but that doesn’t mean it’s any less exploitative for someone to scrape it all to develop software that will make them rich off my work.
thoughts on academic labor, digital labor, intellectual property, and generative AI
🔗 linkblog: OpenAI declares AI race “over” if training on copyrighted works isn’t fair use'
🔗 linkblog: Journalists “deeply troubled” by OpenAI’s content deals with Vox, The Atlantic'
comments:
You can click on the < button in the top-right of your browser window to read and write comments on this post with Hypothesis.