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Stop calling it stealing, damnit! We fought these wars with the MPAA and RIAA in the 90s. By calling it "stealing" you're siding the the older villains.

AI isn't stealing or copying anything. It's generating stuff. If it was truly copying things that would mean someone wrote all that "AI slop" that's poisoning everyone's search results.

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[–] riskable@programming.dev 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

DUDE, if you're not white you are the "worst of the worst" in Trump's eyes.

I guarantee that these people will change nothing about where they get their information. They will still trust it; even though the evidence that they're continually listening to bullshit is staring them right in the face (with masks and guns!).

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[+] riskable@programming.dev -17 points 1 month ago (50 children)

They're not stealing anything. Nor are they "repackaging" anything. LLMs don't work like that.

I know a whole heck of a lot of people hate generative AI with a passion but let's get real: The reason they hate generative AI isn't because they trained the models using copyrighted works (which has already been ruled fair use; as long as the works were legitimately purchased). They hate generative AI because of AI slop and the potential for taking jobs away from people who are already having a hard time.

AI Slop sucks! Nobody likes it except the people making money from it. But this is not a new phenomenon! For fuck's sake: Those of us who have been on the Internet for a while have been dealing with outsourced slop and hidden marketing campaigns/scams since forever.

The only difference is that now—thanks to convenient and cheap LLMs—scammers and shady marketers can generate bullshit at a fraction of the cost and really, really quickly. But at least their grammar is correct now (LOL @ old school Nigerian Prince scams).

It's humans ruining things for other humans. AI is just a tool that makes it easier and cheaper. Since all the lawsuits and laws in the world cannot stop generative AI at this point, we might as well fix the underlying problems that enable this bullshit. Making big AI companies go away isn't going to help with these problems.

In fact, it could make things worse! Because the development of AI certainly won't stop. It will just move to countries with fewer scruples and weaker ethics.

The biggest problem is (mostly unregulated) capitalism. Fix that, and suddenly AI "taking away jobs" ceases to be a problem.

Hopefully, AI will force the world to move toward the Star Trek future. Because generating text and images is just the start.

When machines can do just about everything a human can (and scale up really fast)—even without AGI—there's no future for capitalism. It just won't work when there's no scarcity other than land and energy.