Interesting that the head of Microsoft AI doesn't understand what copyright is either. Tech bros as a group seem singularly stuck in the "mine!" stage of child development. www.theverge.com/2024/6/28/24...
That's the Chinese understanding of copyright! If you can see it, copy it.
There could be some serious legal claims against AI if it is quoting sections of content without the provisos shown in the original.
You'd think Microsoft, of all companies maybe with the exception of Disney, would have a stable of lawyers who could explain the limits of copyright and the risk he's just exposed the enterprise to... π
Microsoft's view on copyright is simple: What's yours is mine, and what's mine is mine.
Your IP doesn't matter. Like the time it cloned CP/M. Or Lotus 1-2-3. Or the Xerox and Apple Lisa GUI. Or Netscape.
Just don't touch Microsoft's IP. Like the time a Linux vendor called it's distro Lindows.
There is no such thing as "the open web." Every website, every webpage, every bit of data accessible via the web sits on a drive that somebody owns and, in many cases, someone else pays a fee to store it on. Just because I don't fence off my front lawn doesn't mean that Microsoft can steal it.
This is why they were all offended at Nightshade/Cara because how dare artists not given them what they want, try to explain the concept of "no if you train AI or use it to gen pictures you can all get equally fucked" just results in "..π¦but...but...I have to prompt it's my divine right π₯Ί"