In case people didn't know, Creative Commons has been on the side of "screw your rights and livelihood, it's fair use" regarding GenAI training since at least 2021.
creativecommons.org/2021/03/04…
The new "AI" license 'signals' are interesting as a development (assuming anyone honours them when companies mass pirated commercial creative works!) but not a surprise (and apparently don't include a "no" option, because that's elsewhere in a spec and this is for granularity of yes)
Should CC-Licensed Content be Used to Train AI? It Depends. - Creative Commons
While we generally support broad access to content to train AI, we also aim to increase our understanding of the ethical concerns.Creative Commons
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in reply to IBBoard • • •Oh, and the EFF leans the same way on "screw your creativity, big tech is right on GenAI".
eff.org/deeplinks/2023/04/how-…
Which probably shouldn't be surprising given some of their previous "screw the humans, let's be absolutist" stances on other legal arguments.
#Copyright #EFF
How We Think About Copyright and AI Art
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