Generative AI is the final nail in intellectual property's coffin

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3 points·mkaic··4 comments

If enough people are watching illicit Mickey Mouses, the IP enforcement systems will just work backwards from the mouse enjoyers' retinas to the most proximal step where money changes hands. Then they will apply legal pressure to it. For example Adobe Firefly already can't draw Hello Kitty (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35247720). If you say that's the cloud and people will have unregulated ones in their houses, then probably Disney will prevent it by blocking Mickey-capable models in the same way that they block bootleg Mickey media.

(author) How will Disney block such Mickey-capable models? Plenty of models distributed to millions of people are already quite Mickey-capable. My aim with this article was to highlight that it's a problem of sheer volume—there will simply be too much Mickey Mouse being generated per second for them to have any chance of regulating it.

I don't think they will be able to block all such Mickey-capable models, just like how they aren't able to block all Mickey media. I think the Mickey-capable models and the media generated by it will be pushed to the dark web, just like how the dark web is probably already full of Mickey media and various pre-LLM permutations of Mickey media that can or can't evade automatic detection to varying degrees.

If this is true, how will we economically incentivize content creators or their successors in interest? Seems like a bad situation.

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