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Written by brentpatterson on 2025-01-10 at 16:59

I haven't told anyone about this yet, so let's go: Last fall, attorney's working for a certain social media company we will call "Schmeta" reached out to me asking for help with a copyright suit specifically because I was an academic who is also an 'expert' with Blender. 🧵

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Written by brentpatterson on 2025-01-10 at 16:59

They wanted an expert who would state that 3D models aren't worth anything because they are so easy to make. Evidently Shmeta and an ivy league school we will call "Schmarvard" had scraped data illegally from a certain company's online library and used it to to train their AI...

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Written by brentpatterson on 2025-01-10 at 16:59

These attorney's wanted me to show that I could make textured 3D models quickly and and easily in Blender to exhibit how easy they are to make and that the lawsuit against them for stealing hundreds of thousands of 3D models was worthless. They were willing to pay me significantly to do this.

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Written by brentpatterson on 2025-01-10 at 17:00

I said I was happy to exhibit how long it takes to make these models, but that it might not be what they want as it is still a time-intensive craft that takes years to learn how to do creatively and competently. They said they didn't want me to lie, but that was not what they were looking for.

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Written by brentpatterson on 2025-01-10 at 17:00

After several phone calls they eventually told me that they would not need my services. But I was left with the distinct impression that mega rich institutions like Schmeta and and Schmarvard are gleefully stealing every aspect of our culture to position themselves to resell it back to us.

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Written by John Overholt on 2025-01-10 at 19:31

@brentpatterson Schmarvard sounds like a big place, do you recall what part in particular? Just curious.

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Written by brentpatterson on 2025-01-10 at 23:00

@overholt I was never told which unit of "Schmarvard" was involved. However, there were evidently competitions promoted by Schmeta to use the stolen dataset to train AI to either recognize or create 3D models of furniture.

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Toot

Written by John Overholt on 2025-01-10 at 23:07

@brentpatterson Hmm, that kind of sounds like a hypothetical Schmaduate Schmool of Schmesign.

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Written by your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 on 2025-01-10 at 23:46

@overholt @brentpatterson 🤣 💀👻

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Written by Stacey Campbell on 2025-01-11 at 02:25

@overholt @brentpatterson poorly suppressed snort

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Written by Blake C. Stacey on 2025-01-11 at 18:32

@overholt @brentpatterson I'd believe it if you told me that it was a Schmedia Lab collaboration, too

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