It’s a GOOD THING AI companies RESPECT Trademarks and Copyrights!
If someone used my face and voice to make money without so much as asking me I’d be pissed off too.
In 2023, Scarlett Johansson’s attorney demanded that an AI app stop using her likeness in an advertisement. The actor also called out OpenAI in 2024 for using an “eerily similar” voice to hers for their GPT-4o chatbot despite having declined the company’s request to provide her voice. OpenAI subsequently announced it would no longer be using the voice, but did not indicate why.
In 2024, Tom Hanks called out the “multiple ads over the internet falsely using my name, likeness, and voice promoting miracle cures and wonder drugs.”
Look at this shit. This is illegal as fuck. Imagine being a doctor and some RFK-type podcaster uses your name, face and voice to promote some hack cure and destroys your reputation.
And they ASKED Johansson and she said no and they still did it. Fuckin AI motherfuckers. No shame
Rape culture type shit
The amount of money these companies have is disproportionate to the amount of punishment they receive when they break a law. People look at the victim and think why should she get billions (which would be a truly proportional punishment) just for them using a voice that sounds like hers. Okay fine. Then give her a commensurate amount and put the rest into a legal defense fund to help others who were harmed. But either way, the company should be proportionately punished to deter them or others from doing same again.
Implying Sam Altman has shame is a hilarious concept.
Her voice is not really unique in anyway nor are her looks. While she may not use this as a cudgel against anyone who looks like or sounds like her other artists will.
While I am not opposed to protections for all people, I am opposed to just the wealthy getting this privilege through trademark.
We’ve already seen dead actors being brought back through AI usage, I think Val Kilmer was one of them. She might not have the most unique looks but even I can recognize her; someone stealing her likeness to make sales is very possible and would have huge repercussions, especially with how culty her base can be.
Ultimately it should be thoroughly illegal if someone hasn’t opted into it and the legal battle should be telling the people who used the likeness should be told to go fuck themselves.
There is a lot going on here to be honest and you brought some additional complexity into it by bringing up a dead person.
First, she doesn’t need trademark to sue companies for using unauthorized statements or pictures/video of her even if it is AI generated. This is called the right of publicity.
California has a law on the books that addresses your concerns around death and it is a better solution than trying to shoehorn trademark into this problem. I don’t necessarily agree with posthumous protection myself, but it is a better way to accomplish a goal.
Taylor Swift in particular has had thousands of pornographic pictures generated of her, which is fucked up.
Fuck all billionaires. Fuck Taylor. Fuck AI.
ABAB includes Taylor Swift.
Who did she exploit to earn her billions?
You tell me. But I know it’s impossible to become a billionaire without exploiting someone, not paying taxes, and not being greedy as fuck.
Change my mind.
impossible to become a billionaire without exploiting someone, not paying taxes, and not being greedy as fuck.
You’re stating your opinion as fact.
There are billionaire artists simply because people want to buy what they’re selling. Equating Taylor Swift or James Cameron to Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos is absolute cringe behaviour, devoid of all nuance.
There are billionaire artists simply because people want to buy what they’re selling.
You’re stating your opinion as fact.
You should go and do some math to understand what it actually takes to become a billionaire and what an insane amount of money that is. Then you can try and explain to me how an honest person can achieve that in a lifetime.
Maybe you should do some math before equating Taylor Swift to Mark Zuckerberg. Maybe you can’t. So let me make it easy for you. Zucc’s networth is 100x that of Swift.
You fucking zealots are even more annoying than Swifties.
You can always tell whose frontal lobes haven’t fully formed before they post by how incapable of nuance they are.
Those billions came from underpaid workers that supported the billionaire in their endeavors. Think road crew and tour bus drivers and beverage stand workers.
Someone somewhere was getting screwed in order for her to make billions.
Great. No one should do any work then.
You fucking zealots are even more annoying than Swifties.
If I were you I wouldn’t post when I was so upset over trivial matters. It’s not good for your mental health. Maybe take a break from the internet for a bit. You seem to need it.
Dude, stop posting the exact same fucking thing over and over again.
I’m making sure all these asshats can read my reply.
Between an exploitative streaming economy and a “cost-of-touring crisis,” buying merch is sometimes the most direct way to get money into an artist’s pocket, even with venue cuts. Just ask Taylor Swift, who, according to Pollstar, made approximately $200 million in merchandise from her 2023 Eras tour dates.
The Environmental Impact of Fast Fashion, Explained
Fast fashion companies focus on low-cost garments that replicate the latest fashion trends, quickly pushing them into stores to capitalize on these trends. This means that retailers are able to offer a greater variety of products in large quantities and allow consumers to get more fashion and product differentiation at a low price.
According to an analysis by Business Insider, fashion production comprises 10% of total global carbon emissions, as much as the emissions generated by the European Union. The industry dries up water resources and pollutes rivers and streams, while 85% of all textiles go to dumps each year. Even washing clothes releases 500,000 tons of microfibers into the ocean each year, the equivalent of 50 billion plastic bottles.
Band T-shirts are sometimes — or even often — the highest quality T-shirts available. Many bands bother to make sure that the stuff they sell is 100% cotton, fair trade, etc. I think I even have some that were made by union labor.
Band T-shirts are sometimes — or even often — the highest quality T-shirts available.
Small local bands tend to source from local manufacturers and distributors. And as they consider their merch a form of advertising, it pays to invest in material that lasts.
But the bigger and more volume-based franchises tend to get their clothes from the same global production and distribution chains as every other Fast Fashion brand. Taylor Swift isn’t contracting with a dozen different local print shops per venue to fill an order big enough to saturate a stadium. She’s going to the same folks that sell to H&M and Zara.
Yeah I’ve never cared enough to check and don’t own any of her merch but you’re probably right in this specific case.
Using copyright to prevent pirating, what a novel idea! I am shaking in my boots! No pirating for me!!
More in line of protecting against synthetic copy cats than piracy but k
Did someone say Cats?
The headline and article have zero relation with Swift’s actions. It’s pure speculation. I’m surprised she hasn’t done that yet.
What are you talking about? It says in the first paragraph that she filed the trademark applications.
I meant the reason why she filed now.
Ah, my mistake
I don’t blame her, they are going to be forced to do this to protect themselves from the AI maniacs, who think they have the right to AI everything, whether you like it or not.
The YouTube music world is being ferociously attacked from all angles by AI. One YouTuber has a unique voice and style, and had posted numerous videos. An AI company used her voice to train their AI voice, copyrighted it, and now they are sueing HER for infringement, and YouTube has taken down all her videos. They literally stole her voice.
AI is a bad enough threat, but the people managing this technology are about the most psychopathic people who have ever been in business.
Let the billionaires fight eachother. And be all asshurt over it. People should start making AI Slop Taylor Swift songs and watch the Streisand effect follow.
They’re doing worst than slop songs. From images I’ve seen, she’s DEEP into Kansas City Chief fans. 😂 🤣 😂
Her reaction makes sense. Best I can hope for is some trickle down civil rights.
Seen somewhere around here
So… now potential clones in the future never get a chance to be successful?
I read files as flies and it also made perfect sense to me.
Too late I already patented it.
/j
I don’t want to live in this universe anymore.
Can’t wait for corporations to find a way abuse the hell out of this.
Her real voice, or the auto-tuned one?
The most important question, did she also trademark her haemorrhoid?
