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>This seems like you are not fully thinking this through, either intentionally or not. Benefit of the doubt

I am not, that is why I'm leaving it to replies to convince me otherwise.

>what if it's someone you know?

Why not start with what if it's me? If I don't know about it, implicitly, I don't care. But if I do and it bothers me, AI companies have already been given free reign over copyright law so I don't really have any recourse here. Can I sue Sam Altman? No, because if that was possible, someone like Studio Ghibli would have done it and made a billion dollars by now.

>what if they want to then sell the generated content?

If it's generated by AI, then the courts have already stated it can't be copyrighted, and is therefore unsellable. The first person you sell it to can redistribute it for free and there's no way you can stop them.

>what if it was your political enemies?

I'm not political, which upsets a lot of people. Just tell people "I'm not voting, it doesn't matter" and watch them lose their minds.

>what if it was your boss?

I'm not really sure why I should be fighting my boss's battles.

>what if it was someone who was stalking you or made you feel unsafe?

People can stalk me without AI. I'm not sure how AI changes this.





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