Sam Altman Promises Copyright Holders More Control Over Sora's Character Generation - and Revenue Sharing

Friday OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced two changes coming "soon" to Sora: First, we will give rightsholders more granular control over generation of characters, similar to the opt-in model for likeness but with additional controls...

Second, we are going to have to somehow make money for video generation. People are generating much more than we expected per user, and a lot of videos are being generated for very small audiences. We are going to try sharing some of this revenue with rightsholders who want their characters generated by users. The exact model will take some trial and error to figure out, but we plan to start very soon. Our hope is that the new kind of engagement is even more valuable than the revenue share, but of course we we want both to be valuable.
"We are hearing from a lot of rightsholders who are very excited for this new kind of 'interactive fan fiction'," Altman wrote, "and think this new kind of engagement will accrue a lot of value to them, but want the ability to specify how their characters can be used (including not at all)."

How far do those rights extend?

[memory_register]

What if you own the rights to a character, and someone wants to generate a character that is very similar? For instance, if Amazon owns the rights to James Bond, and someone designs a British spy who dresses well and engages in espionage, will the system flag that as under the control of Amazon? We are entering weird territory where the creation of new characters and the overlap with old characters could lead to new creators being slapped with restrictions that do not exist anywhere else.

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[alvinrod]

Parody is a right that we need to consider as well. What if I want to generate images of all of those characters sodomizing Sam Altman with giant purple strap-on dildos so that I have images for my newsletter? Copyright holders have no claims against satire or parody of their work. Why should it matter whether I create those images by hand or use a computer tool to assist in their construction?

If all of this leads to actual copyright reform then I won't be one to complain.

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[Calydor]

It doesn't matter if they own it.

If they refuse to let you use any AI tools to generate such a character, and sue you to oblivion if you actually do manage to create one, then it doesn't matter if you're in the right - they have more lawyers and more money to throw at it than you do.

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[El Fantasmo]

You could have just said, "The laws are fair and just and the example of Amazon abusing copyright will never come to pass."

You don't need to point out how dumb we all are for fearing the wealthy's history of abusing every system ever to maintain wealth, power and status.

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[martin-boundary]

He also seems to think copyright law begins and ends in the US, instead of being a patchwork of distinct and sometimes mutually contradictory laws that apply in various jurisdictions.

Criminal commercial copyright infringement

[gweihir]

Apparently, as soon as you are rich, that is acceptable. But be a single mother and download one song for your own private use and they will try to destroy you...

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[TwistedGreen]

At this point it's clear that he enjoys the taste of his own bullshit.

Will it ...

[cascadingstylesheet]

... make me a free Steamboat Willie era Mickey Mouse video that isn't stupid?

That would be better than any human has done so far with that.

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[sound+vision]

Probably not, the tech companies take the copyright holder's, and in many cases random users', assertions about copyright violation at face value.

The claims are never given even a cursory investigation, the content is just removed immediately, without recourse, sometimes progressing to the whole account being removed.

This is the one of the costs you pay for getting everything through streaming services. There is a gentleman's agreement that in exchange for the rights to stream their movies and music, the te

Credibility gap

[marcle]

People quote Altman like they think he's trying to tell the truth. He's not. He's just as mendacious as Musk. You'll learn a lot more if you ignore his words and watch his actions.

Re: Credibility gap

[r0gue_]

âoelying, dishonest, or intentionally untruthful.â Agreed watch his actions, but at least in the statements referenced here he doesnâ(TM)t sound intentionally misleading. What did you think about his comments on the podcast with Tucker regarding that young manâ(TM)s death (the engineer who worked for him, not the teenager who took his life recently).

Re: Credibility gap

[r0gue_]

Need to figure out how to resolve these iOS safari character insertions.

Re: Credibility gap

[newcastlejon]

Settings -> General -> Keyboard. Disable smart quotes.
If you don't want to disable them altogether hold down when inserting a quote mark and choose the default straight line one.

Re: Credibility gap

[r0gue_]

âoeTestâ vs "test" Thanks for the tip! Much appreciated.

"Sam Altman Promises"

[greytree]

"Sam Altman Promises..."

Unless this sentence is going to end "...he will commit harakiri to atone for his cuntish sins in closed-sourcing and for-profiting OpenAI", you better stop right there.

New video technology on the internet needs money.

[John.Banister]

I believe the traditional recipe for financial success with new video technology is porn. "videos are being generated for very small audiences." sounds about right.

Lucifer’s Favorite Code Monkey

[Mirnotoriety]

“Sam Altman is the architect of a coming Luciferian inversion — a digital Tower of Babel in which humanity seeks godhood through its own creations. AI, biometric systems, transhumanism, and Worldcoin are not neutral innovations, but deceptive technologies of false light, preparing the world for the Antichrist’s reign.”

Conrad Flynn [rumble.com]: “What if the ‘ancient knowledge’ of the Kabbalah and the Mystery schools did not originate in the distant past at all, but from somet