The case continues. Why is this important? Valve's platform immunity "Safe Harbor" per the DMCA is under question. Since they profit from these kinds of infringements as a platform, they don't actually qualify for immunity and they may share the liability!
ETHICS
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Artist Wins Copyright Infringement Lawsuit Against Valve
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3D Artist sues Valve for infringing his Copyright by publishing a game that included portions of his work without a license… Valve came up with a long list of excuses, including challenging the original © registration. The USCO sided with artist:
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Court ruling settles 3D artists copyright dispute with influencers
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This is only a small step in this particular court case, but it settles a longstanding dispute with the defeat of influencers like technollama who repeatedly (and ridiculously) claimed that 3D artists and animators don't deserve Copyright for months-long original work on movies
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Deep Real World Understanding Critical for AI Technology Success
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3. Deep real world understanding This is paramount for this technology to work otherwise it would not work
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AI Image Editing and Human Identity Loss Concerns
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I asked for it back, and then make the bg neon pink, the more edits the more it borks the main photo, soon I won't be human any more.
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AI sentience academic interest but not priority compared to urgent problems
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Hey Leon, I am totally onboard with AI sentience as an academic topic of interest. I just think we have so many so much more serious problems to deal with right now that worrying about AI’s suffering and offering them an off button is a huge distraction.
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Ego Toll: Credibility Loss Resistance in Improvement Steps
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What is the "ego toll"? It's when people push back against even a small step toward improvement, if that step involves a perceived loss of credibility, authority, or control https://
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Prioritizing Earth’s Problems: Climate, Animal Suffering Before Space Ambitions
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Great many good comments on why not do both (or calling out "whataboutism" ). This is discussion on resources. Let's not build spaceships to fly to Mars to run away bit fix climate change on earth, let's first reduce animal suffering before we worry about AI suffering.
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Human Verification of Generative AI System Outputs
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Well I think it's good practice for a real person to verify to output of generative AI systems so… I guess we'll mostly be… reviewing papers? 😉
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Encourager la publication des résultats négatifs dans la communauté
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100%. We should encourage publishing negative results as a community.