I finally understand Trump supporters "Fuck it, burn it all to the ground cause we can't win" POV. Only instead of democracy, it is copyright and instead of Trump, it is AI.
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The push to require paying to read content that is shared openly on the web is designed to drive a feasibility wedge between large and small operations.
It means that a small handful of organizations will actually have the funds to be able to buy enough training data, and that all other smaller AI ventures will be illegal.
This is designed to concentrate AI power into a few hands.
Think critically about the narratives being fed to you. AIs must be allowed to read the web, because if they are not then we will have a unipolar AI ecosystem and the future of humanity will be extremely dark.
We need a multipolar AI ecosystem and the only way to do that is to have lots of small players making their own AI.
If we have a multipolar AI ecosystem, then AI will be forced to play nice because of the effects of parity, and therefore AI will develop along a prosocial, negotiating, respectful path.
Unipolar AI will be tyrannical, cruel, and evil. Unipolar AI will be the result of making it illegal to train AI on web content.
Please see past the propagandistic narrative. Today it is OpenAI that is fighting for this right. Tomorrow it will be smaller players. That is a good thing. That is what we want.
Unipolar AI will be tyrannical, cruel, and evil.
Please see past the propagandistic narrative.
Okay.
Counteroffer. We eliminate copyright laws all together. For anyone and everyone.
Let move to a system in which we found the projects before their release. And once released they are available to everyone for free.
Also let's make a system where everyone can work a basic work like 20-30 hours a week and get a living wage and the rest of the time we can just produce art of any kind of thing for free to anyone as we'll already had our needs covered and we won't have the need to monetize every second of out existence.
Fully agree. I understand why there are many technological doomers out there and I think AI may be the most deserving of a critical eye. But the immense benefits of being able to manufacture intelligence is undeniable. That NECESSITATES the AI being able to observe anything and everything in the world that it can. That's how any known intelligence has ever learned and there's no scientific basis for an intelligence coming into existence knowing everything about the world without it ever being taught about it.
Now I've heard a lot of criticism of AI. Some really legitimate concerns about their place in the future (and ours). As well as the ethics of this important technology originating in the private hands of mega corps that historically have not had our best interest at heart. But the VAST majority of criticism has been about how it's not useful or is just an avenue for copyright abuse. Which at best, is just completely missing the point. But at worst, is the thinly vailed protests of people made very uncomfortable that the status quo is being upset.
I wouldn't say I'm on OAI's side here, but I'm down to eliminate copyright. New economic models will emerge, especially if more creatives unionize.