Laws are never equally enforced or applied especially when you have tons of investors money. It is a sad reality. https://bsky.app/profile/lonestartallboi.bsky.social/post/3kiib4qnjt324
@nixCraft We should start a General Purpose Tracker. Call it TrackGPT.
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Also, what a weird display name.
@nixCraft That's the way the laws are designed.
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Even worse, they don't just want to resell the works, they want to sample and remix them. Musicians live in fear of getting sued for sampling, YouTube silences sections of videos that use samples or quotes from movies, etc... Even when it's legal, fair use.
Unfortunately we have no laws against the sampling that "AI" is doing, even though it's much worse. It allows the creation of "new" works "in the style of" the sampled artists, with no royalties due to anyone.
@nixCraft Indeed, Midjourney is an artist the same way Napster was a record collection.
“You own the world, so never mind.”
(Leonard Cohen, “Nevermind”)
@nixCraft … pretty sure the Napster guy became one of the most prominent mega-billionaires in Silicon Valley, right? (That would be Sean Parker…) so, there’s also a story here of the “little guy” becoming one of thr “big guys”
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If it's impossible to build AI tools like ChatGPT without stealing intellectual property, then they shouldn't build them. No one asked for this shit anyway.
@nixCraft Impossible? The plant-based burger company???
You're right. I would like to see us punish everyone less (or not at all) for free and open use of all IP in existence in perpetuity. There you go, we now can feed every family and make the world a better place. The incentive to create still comes from the excitement of seeing your dreams come true, and not from owning a yacht. Wonderous inventions are created and used together to create even more. I see only good things here, more please!
If the model was open then I'd say to rip off whatever you wanted
@nixCraft Everytime I read that post I have to think about Aaron Schwartz.. Which also reminds me to rewatch 'The internets own boy' again sometime soon.
The capitulation to problems is all to frequent in such declarations
Biden cancelled a trillion dollars in corporate tax gifts, then added an EXTRA trillion in taxes, but JUST to bloated corps who hadnt paid taxes since boomers wore shorts
Counting to ten lasts ten seconds, to a hundred is a minute and a 1/2.
Counting to one trillion is longer than human history
2 trillion dollars in just, fair, extra, taxation isnt the end, its a proof of concept
There are steps we can take.
@nixCraft Anything goes in the name of corporate greed .The law doesn't apply .
@nixCraft yes isn't it weird that the opensource champion napster generation of copypasta code monkey legends are now complaining about machines stealing their work.
@nixCraft Hollywood and the music industry are likely the strongest unions in play against this creeping threat.
There's a reason all the recent AI crap is based on images and text from non-union sources.
@nixCraft Yup. If the OpenAI folks say it's "impossible" to create AI tools without plagiarism, I guess their work is done and it's time for them to go figure out how to solve the microplastics crisis
@nixCraft Pro Tip: if you fet caught pirating. Just say you were training an AI model.
@nixCraft "Impossible to create..."
So don't fucking do it, then, you absolute wads.
@nixCraft @theresmiling "Impossible to create tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material” - I have a brilliant idea: just don't create crap like ChatGPT in the first place maybe?
That headline alone shows the ugly truth of ChatGPT and friends: without references to use in their only half usable answers they were just fancy versions of A.L.I.C.E running on overpriced server farms.
@nixCraft on the other hand, st. anger was worth every penny to be honest
@nixCraft usually when I read situations like this I quip the old "Law in its majestic equality denies poor and rich alike from sleeping under bridges" but we l've gone so far even that logic has broken down.
@nixCraft i don't disagree with the overall point, but this comparison seems kind of simplistic. litigation against OpenAI, StabilityAI, etc. is ongoing, and some (most?) of the file sharing lawsuits similarly took years.
"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to whit, there must be in-groups that the law protects but does not bind and there must be out-groups that the law binds but does not protect."
- Frank Wilhoit, former Professor of Political Science at Drake University
@nixCraft Did OpenAI just admit that most companies building AI tools are criminal enterprises?
@nixCraft "a single Metallica album"