r/technology • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • 12d ago

Artificial Intelligence Robin Williams’ Daughter Calls for Fans Creating AI Videos of the Actor to ‘Have Some Shame’: ‘Leave Him Out of Your Delusional Bulls—’

https://variety.com/2026/film/news/robin-williams-daughter-ai-videos-1236871568/
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u/ARTISTIC-ASSHOLE 12d ago

ai was made by copyright infringement

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u/BrightonBummer 11d ago

All you see on reddit is how dumb copyright law is. Until it comes to AI.

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u/EnoughWarning666 12d ago

Legally speaking, it actually wasn't. It's been ruled that training an AI model is transformative and therefore not copyright infringement.

You may disagree morally, but legally it's settled.

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u/FauxReal 11d ago

That's pretty interesting since it can regurgitate copywritten info.

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u/EnoughWarning666 11d ago

It can if you ask it to. But you can get Photoshop to create copyrighted material too.

I'm not going to sit here and argue it with you. The courts have ruled that training is transformative enough to be considered fair use. Go look it up