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[–] MsPenguinette@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I feel like an AI company might argue that generative AI is so transformative in the math aspect that it's transformative even if it gives you an exact copy of a copy written work. Which would be silly, but we in uncharted times and the laws are dumb.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

So, if I were to do a bad re-encode, the result would be copyright-free?
Or not, because I didn't pass it through AI?

Truly dumb laws.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

expecting government to never do silly things is pretty silly, you goose