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This headline is infuriatingly backwards and offensive.

Extending the government-enabled monopoly power of the establishment media to prevent new art, technology and creativity from competing should not be treated as a good thing or as "protecting" them.

Rather than extending copyright to unprecedented new levels to strangle AI in the crib, we should be overjoyed that billions of people will now be enabled to use new tools to create art, music, poetry, and literature tailored to their specific desires.

We could be on the cusp of a new utopia, of empowerment of the average person and incredibly diversity of the creative arts... or we could watch as a handful of corporations get laws passed to give their cartel exclusive control of what music, film, art and literature gets published.

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Yea, the news media always seems to use the word “protect” for these laws rather than “restrict” because they are morally aligned with the usual copyright cartel companies (publishers and studios), rather than morally aligned with end users.

They are all fully aligned and share the goal of “strangling AI in the crib” as you eloquently put it. It’s going to happen, too, nationwide, because we always seem to give these Media Landlords outsized political power.

Agreed our current system is setup to maximize rents by large corporations and private equity groups. It is quite a stretch to say this protects “musicians”.

Great so some John Lennon songs will be “protected” … despite his lack of being alive.

>we should be overjoyed that billions of people will now be enabled to use new tools to create art, music, poetry, and literature tailored to their specific desires

They aren't creating anything of the sort. The AI is creating it for them, and not to their specific styles, to a rough approximation based on the work of existing human artists that already exist in its data set.

Look at the Sora AI video generate from the prompt "an alien blending in naturally with new york city, paranoia thriller style, 35mm film"[0]. It's awful, particularly in its rendition of the background, and misses on almost every element of what one can assume the intent behind the prompt was. No actual cinematographer would intentionally make this.

And billions of people? Sorry? On what planet do billions of people have access to AI but not the tools and opportunity to create art on their own? Ugandans with $200 made a movie enjoyed by people the world over[1], every second of which has far more heart and actual creative value than anything AI could generate. AI isn't liberating anyone from anything, it's shackling people to centralized, corporate generators of mediocrity.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfiq6-NVJWA

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Killed_Captain_Alex%3F

>Rather than extending copyright to unprecedented new levels to strangle AI in the crib, we should be overjoyed that billions of people will now be enabled to use new tools to create art, music, poetry, and literature tailored to their specific desires.

No this is terrible for the purposes of propagandists. We live on human-farms and are managed by our governments and technocratic elite, through propaganda and incentive systems which increase in violent coerciveness the more we assert our individual sovereignties. You never signed that social contract you're following. The magic of the Magi is in control of the human psyche, the magic is in the last mile to human awareness. That knowledge has been passed down for millennia through esoteric occult teachings. I digress.

Propagandists must be able to serve their content without competing counterinforcements. You being able to generate your own porn privately with complete creative sovereignty (assuming a morally "flat" bias model) will destroy almost all avenues the propagandist has to influence your local sexual kink progressions (progressively slippery slope from vanilla college co-ed softcore towards slap porn or cuck porn). Porn too far fetched? How about being able to write reams of coherent novels with whatever the reader believed to be right and just? No amount of post-OWS woke identity politics propaganda (paid for by Wall Street, to take the OWS heat off them) can counter the sheer volume of counterinforcement autists like myself could churn out.

One benefit to the propagandists: people will probably atomize as our social protocols decay from lack of authentic critical feedback, as we all increasingly huff our own generated supplies.

It's the NIMBY playbook. The ones who have claimed a stake in the space try to block others from entering. Cutting the ladder under them.

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