In a surprising move, Japan’s government recently reaffirmed that it will not enforce copyrights on data used in AI training. The policy allows AI to use any data “regardless of whether it is for non-profit or commercial purposes, whether it is an act other than reproduction, or whether it is content obtained from illegal sites or otherwise.”
So they basically want AI companies to move to Japan so they can scrape the Internet for free
That’s so fricking sad.
Adobe has a much better policy where AI is only tained on stock images, and they are also working on a royalty model for it. This approach is so much better than continuing the exploitation of artists.
Also lol - does this apply to Nintendo and Sony works too? Cause I don’t think they will sit quietly if that happens?
“Nintendo, you can’t take down my Ocarina of Time fan game because I used AI to help code it!”
Considering how much Japan has banked on it’s culture and art, this is a surprising Fuck You to artists, and i bet all the AI models from now on will be trained there
Japan wants to lead the world in AI, so they’re pursuing very AI-friendly policies.
At the cost of their artists
what is “reproduction”? Can AI train on Star Wars, Star Trek, and Starship Troopers to create a new movie? We aren’t at that point yet but at current state, this is a farce.
I’m sure the enforcement will come when mega corps start feeling the negative effects on their profits. Currently, it’s mostly all mega corps benefitting from AI, so it’s not a surprise, government sides with them.
Yikes. That’s scary. Hopefully it won’t lead to more walled gardens or people pulling stuff down. Wonder where they stand on content that is open for individual usages and not corporate.
It’ll be interesting seeing how this plays out, in other countries now Japan has taken a form stance, I wonder if this will have any impact on the decision making.
@noodlejetski Wow, not _that_ is a hot take for the Japanese government…!
- move to Japan
- train Midjourney on a set of Nintendo characters
- release an AI-assisted video game called Hyper Crash Siblings
@noodlejetski My best guess is that you can TRAIN the AI for that, but if what you generate is clearly a trademark/copyright infringement, then you could still be prosecuted.
That’s really unexpected, but yeah, Terminator is just a movie, even if they find a way to go back in time to try to stop this one person who is creating the bad AI it won’t matter, there are already so many others working on it at the same time.
Logical move IMO. Training a model is categorically not the same as distributing unauthorized copies of a work.
