• nehal3m@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    263·
    6 hours ago

    Oh so I guess piracy is fine if it’s citizens getting robbed huh? Funny how that works.

    • friend_of_satan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      3 hours ago

      Sadly, it was Grace Hopper who said “It’s easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission.”

      Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper (9 December 1906 – 1 January 1992) was a U.S. Naval officer, and an early computer programmer. She was the developer of the first compiler for a computer programming language; at the end of her service she was the oldest serving officer in the United States Navy.

      That brings me to the most important piece of advice that I can give to all of you: if you’ve got a good idea, and it’s a contribution, I want you to go ahead and DO IT. It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.

      • The future: Hardware, Software, and People in Carver, 1983
      • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        2 hours ago

        Except she probably wasn’t referring to identity theft; just how to handle dumb shits in management.

  • thehatfox@lemmy.worldEnglish
    282·
    9 hours ago

    We are going to need much stronger image rights for individuals in the AI age.

    There’s no way to stop the technology itself (although current development may plateau at some point), so there must be strong legal restrictions on abusing it.

    • General_Effort@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      41 minutes ago

      Do you want the rich to be richer? Because that’s how you make the rich richer. People like Scarlett Johanson will be able to license their likeness for millions or billions. Of course, we would have the same rights; the same rights to own a mansion and a yacht. Feeling lucky?

      That’s the kind of capitalism that Marx rages against: Laws that let people demand money without contributing labor.

      • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        11 minutes ago

        There’s no future where this affects me in the slightest. Okay, so jeff Goldblum can get a few more shekels for renting his voice. This doesn’t affect me: that’s his JOB, whether they stole his likeness and paid him, paid him and cloned his voice, or paid him to do the speaking. It’s the same thing, imho.

        Talk to me when people who don’t have their voice recorded get an unfair leg-up for selling it. I’ll be okay with it then, too, but let me know.

    • GreyBeard@lemmy.oneEnglish
      3·
      2 hours ago

      Yeah, the genie is out of the bottle on this one. I can do voice cloning with consumer hardware and available models. That can’t be undone, but good legal protections would be nice.

      That said, the Johanson case is a bad example because it really didn’t sound much like her at all. It was a chipper yound white lady sound, but to my ear sounded nothing like Johanson. It did sound kinda like a character she voiced, but I would not gave confused the two. They cloned the voice of someone they paid to give a similar inflection as the voice from Her. That’s far removed from cloning Johanson herself. It is closer to people making music “in the style of”.