@nixCraft@mastodon.social Yeah everyone that's pro-slop seems convinced that a couple of US judges rulings saying genAI output is public domain is the final word on it. And I'm pretty convinced that (1) even in the US, judges are going to start to rule in a more nuanced matter than those rulings expect (indeed, I believe one such ruling dropped this week), and (2) the rest of the world will blindly follow along and (3) the law will never change and even if the "genAI is PD" precedent is upheld one day, those who rely upon copyright protection won't lobby to change those laws. It gets worse because we could end up with copyright laws even more draconian than what we have today. It is perfectly legal today, as the ReactOS and Wine people prove, to copy third party operating systems with a clean room implementation. But what if copyright laws change so that the overall product, not the implementation of the product, is what qualifies for protection? That would be an legislatively easy "solution" that'd keep Microsoft, Oracle, etc, happy, but would have far reaching affects.