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No actually. I have multiple concerns with "AI" that would continue to be concerns in a completely non-capitalism based system.
It would take several hours to type out some of them, but some that are very simple are: the resources required to have these "AI" systems are extensive and would be better used elsewhere, there are things that should not be copied (especially without consent of the creator) and used in a LLM or any image generator, and these systems only exist because of capitalism, without being able to extract and steal value from others, there is really no use for them
You can run inference on desktop gpus. Copyrights are a state enforced monopoly, not a law of nature. I don't recognise any control of culture by anyone, including the author. The technology can just as well exist outside of Capitalism
I write software collectively. Sometimes code needs to be fixed. Let's say Fred wrote some code that needs to be fixed. I fix it and create a merge request. My reviewer, Mark, looks over my merge request and allows it into the collective repository. Fred, being too attached to her code, comes over yelling. Fred has not learned that software is a collective experience.
We collectively own the technology and creative works. Under capitalism, we must individually own that work to make money.
I'm sorry are you new here? We on dbzer0 don't believe in legally or state sponsored gatekeeping, which is what the concept of intellectual property by in large is. Have you ever seen media campaigns to spread awareness of copyleft, shareware, and GPL licensing, or have you seen campaigns meant to demonize people who violate the will of megacorps and try to scare people out of pirating content, you know, like these?
Also the companies who choose to prop up and lobby for laws to protect Intellectual Property, simultaneously don't give any shit about the collaboration you speak of, many of them have either been proven to, or are suspected of violating those GPL licenses. So to say that IP laws are about collaboration is just straight up shitting in our mouths and calling it a sundae.
Cool story bro?
The government guarantees copyright and patents, not capitalism.
Mainly the US government, who forces other countries to adopt it via the reserve currency which is required to purchase energy, in mob boss style fashion. They are entirely artificial constructs that are designed to create monopolies in order to fund RND.
Even the BS laws like software patents are foisted upon other countries, for things like rounded corners on windows.