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Let's be totally frank about the AI Wars of 2023; what can artists, creators, authors actually do about it? No, really. What?
How many would need to decline use of Google, Microsoft, Amazon et al products and services that backbone the development and deployment of AI?
How much would need to be surrendered to dent their trillion-dollar bottom lines enough for them to course-correct, stop or reign in their pursuit of everything AI? And how long would that take?
In the mean-time, will 'independent' AI developers, researchers and content creators stop out of conscience? For the good of mankind? Or will they carry on, saturating the market with cheap, readily consumed content, that will be less derivative as time passes.
After all progress is good.
More pointedly, why would the AI gods want to surrender control over the engineered future they have in stall for humanity (THX1138, Logan's Run, et al)? AI as an 'everything app', service or tool.
For artists, creators, authors and the likes, what is an effective strategy to counter this reality?
Copyright?
Consumers don't care about "copyright" - if its available, it is consumed (it must be okay otherwise it wouldn't be available).
Consumers will avidly consume the 'personalised' entertainment experiences they are going to be told AI can dynamically generate for them;
Promo: "Customise your cinematic experience for just $9.99 a month"
Service: "Please enter your text prompts"
Consumer: "Willow fighting the ancient unicorn-demon terrors, Bella and Tom Cruise faithfully by his side".
Service: "Please wait a moment while we render your selection".
Again, what can artists, creators, authors, do to slow, never mind stop, this tide?
Who are they to stand in the way of highly individualised content consumption?
By the time any corrective legislation goes live, China, India and other jurisdictions that don't fully comply with International Copyright will engage the warp drives to 11 and Spinal Conquistadors will rule the tomato infested wheat pool.
Hey guys,
I wanted to share a little bit with you today on what a DMCA is versus a trademark violation.
Everyone should know their rights on both sides.
For DMCA, nobody has the authority to act on the owners behalf. If you have got a DMCA complaint you have the right to ask for verification from @imvu that they are allowed to act on the owners behalf. Must include an electronic signature or regular one.
The DMCA requires service providers to tell you IMMEDIATELY when they remove any of your content due to a takedown notice. Here is the kicker though! Pay attention... You have the right to submit a counter notice demanding the materials be put back up. I suggest you do this through a certified letter so you have proof if litigation is necessary. Also, there is NO TIMELINE ON WHEN YOU CAN SEND A COUNTER NOTICE. If you were disabled 2 years ago, this still applies to you! Also, remember if you fail to respond to a DMCA, even on IMVU, you are subject to a copyright lawsuit in real life only by the owner NOT IMVU.
If you have won a DMCA that just means they took down the content. But you as a creator are now entitled to compensation. You can sue that other creator in real life and IMVU because BOTH parties have profited off your work. It caused you a financial loss.
Now, if you use a texture from a mesh and slightly changed it. This is not copyrighted, it has to be an original work. It doesn't even matter if their name's on it. Names are not copyrighted, they have to be trademarked.
You can use brand names! You just have to do it the RIGHT way. Nike, Addias, anything you want. Just make sure you do it in a way where you can prove it's comparative advertising, news, a parody, and/or critique.
For example don't just use the word Nike. Use Nike with a reverse slogan.
Nike - Don't Do It. The DMCA comes from their imaged LOGO <--- not that name! The swoosh is copyrighted and a DMCA can be filed.
Also remember, ICON's are copyrighted and YOU CAN DMCA for it.
"At this point, what difference does it make!?"
A lot, ackshoeally, but not for the reasons the protagonist of this story might like to think.
Anita Sarkeesian is calling it quits on Feminist Frequency after some 14 years of 'political activism' [1], most of it notably as a consequence of gamergate flame baiting and cry-bullying [2].
"With my heart stuffed full of a million different emotions, today I share the news with you that Feminist Frequency is closing" [source].
Gamers aren't necessarily rejoicing the fact because they understand the politized toxicity she and her cohorts injected into the games industry has transmogrified into something more serious than the slow acting poison that was their intentionally fractious brand of "diversity and inclusion".
The truth is, Feminist Frequency's demise has been long over-due, the organisation living off the fumes spewed by its most fanatical supporters and political opportunists, and because the brand of activism they championed had outlived its usefulness to the corporations within the gaming industry Anita brags to have "changed".
No doubt these very same entities will agree, perhaps even going so far as dedicating a few column inches to appropriately glowing obituaries of sincere praise; a job well done; change worth changing for, and so on.
Of course, Feminist Frequency didn't 'change' anything. They, like most politically motivated organisations, were just a useful contemporary tool to further the aims of those they claim to be changing.
To that end, and why gamers aren't rejoicing or breathing sighs of relief, the toxic antagonistic politics of Anita Sarkeesian, Feminist Frequency, their viciously vocal cohorts and activist journalist colleagues, has simply been subsumed into ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) and DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) initiatives and policies as though the former never existed, the only traces being individuals similarly absorbed into various hierarchical corporate structures they still think they're culture-jacking, just to be pushed into the background, surplus to requirements but kept around to keep them quiet.
They're no longer useful and have been cast aside despite their egotistical imaginings.
What they thought were corporate allies were just organisations utilising their aggressive activism to throw out the dead wood and bring in systems that afford far greater control over their footprints; the politics of Feminist Frequency were simply a tool corporations used to open the gates to the far more powerful and far reaching underlying politics that govern ESG, DEI and other initiatives; a quasi-technocratic neo-feudalism, a future where everything is controlled by a 'social credit score' and centralised digital currency. As the saying goes, "you will own nothing and be happy".
The hubris and arrogance, the political short-sighted toxic and anachronistic politics of Anita Sarkeesian, Feminist Frequency and her allies and cohorts in the media have condemned everyone, themselves included, to a future they will never control, and neither will their children, if they have any.
And if it weren't for gamers and gamergate just wanting to be left along to play vidya, we wouldn't have had a clue.
Footnotes:
[1] Activism that is fundamentally hatefully misandrist, targetting not just gamers through GamerGate, but more broadly men and boys. See;
[2] The "cry-bully" pleads they are being bullied while being the bully, or more aptly, a person who slaps another while claiming they are being slapped while doing the slapping. See;
