Technology

Then it should die.

This is like saying "if we had to ask for consent, the human race would die." Fucking creepy, rapist vibes.

Great, let's do that.

Is this going in for a vote? Where do I vote?

Good.

Cool, so I'll get started on building an automated business that sells cheap access to all the music, movies and shows on the streaming services.

Getting consent for each title would basically kill my business and would be implausible, so I'll just assume it's ok.

Kill the AI industry? Sweet. As an artist I do not consent.

If a business cannot survive without breaking the law, then it is not a business but a criminal organisation.

So I can steal all their shit too, right? It would "Implausible" for me to do so.

And not asking for it will kill whatever remains of the creative industries.

What do you want, a few years of ai slop followed by the more or less rapid decline of the internet (as it is overwhelmed with model collapse creative works and untrustable content) that will afford the likes of Clegg (in his role of 'meta' executive) a huge payout, or creative people having any hope of a sustained ability to make a living?

I know what I would prefer and I also know what is most likely going to happen. This is the result of decades of neo-liberal fossil-fuel-powered capitalism.

He admit it!

I'm ok with "ai" dying

I have a proposition. Raid them with police and search their computers for stolen data like you would do with your citizens.

So… what’s the down side to this bill?

oh noes

Look, these goddamn assholes have got in their head that they have a right to profit.

NOBODY HAS A RIGHT TO PROFIT.

You have a right to try to create a profit and there are rules to that. You're gonna lose your billions in investment if you can't plaigerize content?....fuck you, your loss, and you shoulda fucking known better when the idea was presented to you.

Assholes

correction: will kill people's attempts to make billions out of other people's art. Otherwise inquisitive people will continue to do non-profit research this way or another.

Actually here is a question to you: Would you be ok if the law stated you don't need permission if it is non-profit and open source? Yea I thought so bitch.

Oh, so it'd be ok to get movies, pictures, books, etc. without asking the right owners for us too? GREAT.

If being declined concent is going to kill your industry then maybe your industry deserved to die.

Fucking rapist mentaility right there.

Same thing for most of billionaires' income sources.

"Respecting [insert human right] would kill [insert industry]."

If your industry can't exist without theft then your industry doesn't deserve to exist, pretty simple.

Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow? No, says the man on Wall Street; it belongs to the shareholders.

Good.

Let's hope it does.

I was thinking no fucking way this is the same Nick Clegg I'm thinking of, and then I read the description 💀

Ah, if it isn’t my old friend Mr. Nick Clegg, with a dick for a face and an ass for a head!

Yay, kill it please.

Fine then, kill it.

Can't they just write an 'AI' to ask an artist for permission then? I'll bet they can. It's just that most artists will say no unless they get paid. So, their business model, based on theft, is not sustainable. Got it.

If you're giving me the choice of killing the AI industry or artists it doesn't seem like a hard decision. Am I missing something?