Piracy websites should adopt Midjourney's arguments on copyright:
"Look bro, it's just too hard to figure out what license governs each and every file and who its author is."
@siguza The better argument for Midjourney is, that it LEARNS from the work, and memorizes it, something humans also are allowed to.
@hbons @forthy42 Right, but you only need one license to view. A single subscription grants the right to a human to read a newspaper. That human is then free to feed it into a machine, for summation, to store a copy, whatever, as long as they don't sell copies themselves. They're even free to describe the contents of any article to other humans around a water cooler.
@LouisIngenthron @forthy42
this kind of stuff looks like bad photocopies instead of summations to me: https://spectrum.ieee.org/midjourney-copyright
@hbons @forthy42 Look at the prompts. These are basically fancy autocomplete. If you ask them for exactly what a screenshot would be, especially if it's of something that was plastered over the internet, then you don't leave any room for creativity.
Same with the NYT thing. You have to be intentionally using it very wrong to get those results.
It's like a researcher forcing their iPhone autocomplete to write the complete works of shakespeare. Could it be done? Sure. But did the autocomplete really do it, or the person who deleted every word it guessed wrong?
@LouisIngenthron @hbons @forthy42 disagree, the later prompts were a few words