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Google AI Tools Start Blocking Disney-Related Prompts

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I didn't realise but by chance i bumped into this last night. I wanted to remove a few letters from the Star Wars logo and it refused... Thought it was a bit much, but it mentioned third party concerns.

This is the future of creation that many want to see. The only ideas allowed will be ones that corporations aren't afraid of being sued about.

Paradoxically it creates a permanent advantage for local models and overseas companies that don't care. I wonder how this will play out.

And when your local model generated video gets uploaded, YouTube will just remove it then.

Local models will always be disadvantaged on compute power anyway. Hobbyists can do what they want locally but the culture will be dominated by what the tech and media giants permit. They'll now have the power centralized at time of creation and not just upon publication on their own platforms.

If Google listens to Disney, why wouldn't the same argument automatically apply to every copyrighted property being reproduced? Surely the law prohibits all copyright infringement, not just infringement of companies with lawyers and deep pockets.

You effectively don't have copyright if you can't afford the lawyers needed to enforce it. This is how it's always been, but people made some effort at hiding it in the past.

> Surely the law prohibits all copyright infringement, not just infringement of companies with lawyers and deep pockets.

No. The DMCA is capricious by design in that if ceases to provide safe harbor if too much copyright infringement is going on. Hence allowing people to pirate the properties of small rightsholder but not larger ones is a valid way to retain safe harbor.

> Surely the law prohibits all copyright infringement, not just infringement of companies with lawyers and deep pockets.

Welcome to reality. Downloading a movie is stealing but downloading the sama movie to train AI is not.

Some people are just more equal than others.

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