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I'm still waiting for somebody to give me a symmetry breaker between AI training on existing media and humans creating media from what they've seen, such that one is theft and the other is not.
I agree with you in the though that humans have been doing this stuff for the longest. We're sophisticated algorithms that look at the work of other people, attempt to discern what has merit, and if the stars align we might write the screenplay to the Notebook, publish Twilight, or doodle Deadpool on a napkin.
But the theft in my opinion is that a minority control this nascent tech, based on existing capital, and most of that 'venture capital bro' money funding this was made off of platforms that became wildly profitable for them from humans that were doing this. But now this is going to displace them and create no more need for them.
There'll come a day when Youtube and Tik Tok design their own 'content creators' and at that point they'll start cutting ad revenue to the people that put them in this position in the first place. Betrayal. It's like Spez calling mods entitled crybabies, once this is in full gear everyone who helped get it rolling will be cast aside like chaff and a couple dozen people will get billions of dollars out of it
Lmao, cope harder. You're being replaced like the rest of us 🤣
What's the cope here? That guy saw a way to make money from suing and took it.
turns out, copyright laws have literally never been used to protect artists!
AI aint going away, it's already commonly running and on local machines, and being used covertly.
If letting AI train on other people's works is unjust enrichment then what the record lables did to creatives through the entire 20th century taking ownership of their work through coercive contracting is extra-unjust enrichment.
Not saying it isn't, but it's not new, and bothersome that we're only complaining a lot now.
Yep. And the streaming tech bros collusion with the industry mobsters took it to another level. The people making the art are a mere annoyance to the jerks profiting from it. And yet the ai which they think saves them from this annoyance requires the art be created in the first place. I guess the history of recorded music holds a fair amount to plunder . But art - and even pop music - is an expression and reflection of individuals and wider zeitgeist: actual humanity. I don't see what value is added when a person creates something semi unique, and a supercomputer burns massive amounts of energy to mimic it. At this stage all of supposed AI is a marketing gimmic to sell things. Corporations once again showing their hostility to humanity.
Copying is not theft. Letting only massive and notoriously untransparent corporations control an emerging technology is.
agreed, but its an interesting contradiction revealed in the legal frameworks.
Have you or a friend used YouTube or reddit in the past 10 years? Then you're entitled to compensation for the training of AI.
