Technology

This is the worst of all worlds too me. If it was fair it would be good. As in no intellectual property then sure AI can train on anything but the rest of us can own and create culture freely. Or the opposite extreme every work requires express permission. Want to repost a tweet get permission (not a fan of this myself but honestly still better then the current).

If it has to be biased then biasing against the ultra wealthy seems obviously better.

But here we are hoping the current tyrants hurt the new ones a little

This is one of the few times I've thought it unfortunate that we have a loser-pays system in our civil courts. That means we can only bankrupt at most one of them. But in this case, SOCAN seems the lesser evil. By a very narrow margin.

It’s a shame both sides can’t lose. Nevertheless, I wish them luck in the legal battle.

It's equally weird to see the some people siding with billionaires and tech conglomerates instead of with the working class. It's almost as if there's more nuance to things than people who live online think...

The sad truth of our time is that richest for-profit tech corporations on Earth are making buckets of money through the exploitation of the intellectual labor of the creative class.

It was already hard enough to make a living as an artist or musician before... Now artists are being told that they have to compete in a market of finite demand against an infinite supply of generative AI slop that only exists as a byproduct of their own stolen work.

Considering there would be no AI product without the training data, it's pretty much unconscionable that tech companies like Suno can make endless profit off of the work of others without even so much as consent, let alone compensation.

Adversity makes strange bedfellows

How is this a copyright troll though?

Yep, many piracy advocates are suddenly appalled by piracy. Truth is I don't think many of them ever actually formed a real opinion.