It is illegal. As an artist, if another individual or company wants to use my work for their own commercial purposes in any way, even if just to 'analyze' (since the analysis is part of their private commercial product), they still need to pay for a license to do so. Otherwise it's an unauthorized use and theft. Copyright doesn't even play into it at that point, and would be a separate issue.
RyanHeffronPhoto
joined 1 year ago
It's baffling to me seeing comments like this as if the 'AI' is some natural intelligence just hanging out going around reading books it's interested in for the hell of it.. No. These are software companies illegally using artists works (which we require licensing for commercial use) to develop a commercial, profit generating product. Whatever the potential outputs of the AI are is irrelevant when the sources used to train it were obtained illegally.
Movies are made for different reasons. Some are made for the 'art', but some are made simply for entertainment. Shitty B-movies are a whole genere about being so 'bad' they're fun, and that's they're purpose. Fast and Furious movies aren't being made for the art.
@Gutless2615 corperations stealing artists work to develop their for-profit software is NOT fair use.
Andy Hull from Manchester Orchestra
Yes I always want the option. I'm fine with an algorithm feed when I'm randomly checking in, but I really prefer chronological when an event is happening for instance and I want to see people's most recent takes.
Yet what these companies are doing does not constitute 'fair use', period, no matter how much you want to argue otherwise.