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The activist who’s taking on artificial intelligence in the courts: ‘This is the fight of our lives’ (english.elpais.com)

submitted 10 months ago by tardigrada@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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The American Matthew Butterick has started a legal crusade against generative artificial intelligence (AI). In 2022, he filed the first lawsuit in the history of this field against Microsoft, one of the companies that develop these types of tools (GitHub Copilot). Today, he’s coordinating four class action lawsuits that bring together complaints filed by programmers, artists and writers.

If successful, he could force the companies responsible for applications such as ChatGPT or Midjourney to compensate thousands of creators. They may even have to retire their algorithms and retrain them with databases that don’t infringe on intellectual property rights.

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[–] anachronist@midwest.social 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Strategically important how exactly?

[–] WebTheWitted@beehaw.org 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Great power competition / military industrial complex . AI is a pretty vague term, but practically it could be used to describe drone swarming technology, cyber warfare, etc.

[–] anachronist@midwest.social 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

LLM-based chatbot and image generators are the types of "AI" that rely on stealing people's intellectual property. I'm struggling to see how that applies to "drone swarming technology." The only obvious use case is in the generation of propaganda.

[–] S13Ni@lemmy.studio 2 points 10 months ago

You could use LLM like AI to go through vast amounts of combat data to make sense of it on the field and analyze data from mass surveillance. I doubt they need much more excuses.

Case could be made tech bros have overhyped the importance of AI to military industrial complex but it nevertheless has plenty of nasty uses.

[–] maynarkh@feddit.nl 1 points 10 months ago

The only obvious use case is in the generation of propaganda.

It is indeed. I would guess that's the game, and is already happening.