My Cynical take for how this whole AI backlash is going to go.
So the big news today is all the accusations of plagiarism with the game "Palworld" and how it rips off Pokemon by using generative AI to generate new Pokemon, infringing on Game Freak's copyrights.
People are calling for a boycott against the game to take a principled stand against AI.
I'll say right off, Palworld was fucking stupid to go this route. You're already going to be attracting the attention of the Eye of Sauron by parodying Pokemon; stealing their assets via AI and crowing about it is the one thing you should NOT do. So they will probably get crushed one way or another.
But in the long run, here's what I think is going to happen:
- Indie developers will be sued / boycotted into oblivion.
- Big Studios will lobby in concert with tech companies to carve out copyright exemptions, and they will get them. Because the tech will be "too big to fail" (not personally saying it is, saying that will be their line)
- They will get their wish and keep using AI in-house, albeit being much quieter about it to avoid moral outrage.
- AI will be thus taken away from the masses (ostensibly to placate those against it) but it will remain another revenue enhancement tool for the rich, and will not go away. Ever. At best it takes some different form so they can plausibly claim it's not scraping data directly.
I did say it was a cynical take.
About Paisley P. Peinforte
A hater of Active voice, Lady Peinforte is titled nobility of the nation of Sealand. Having successfully invaded both America and Canada from her home base in Windsor, she has become horribly corrupted by the world, and is dedicated to "creating the greatest 'Ship of them all". She ponders horribly terrible, idiotic things for your amusement.
~explanation~
I'm a snarky, semi-horrible human being given to penning intentionally bad epic slashfiction involving improbable objects and individuals, with the ultimate ambition of befouling Kindle with it one day,which is ostensibly what this blog is for.
In practice, however, it tends to mainly be a circular file for my various thoughts and ideas, some whimsical and others not, in addition to my various Photoshop experiments, mainly collections of what I originally generated for Twitter but now do for Mastodon Threads Bluesky thanks to Twitter becoming a fascist hellscape.
I also have a sideproject doing art for my addition to Doctor Who fanon, Karnian Script which is a more sigil-based, witchy take on Galifreyan variants.