I agree on the sentiment, it was just a weird turn of phrase.
Social media has done a lot to temper my techno-optimism about free distribution of information, but I’m still not ready to flag the printing press as the decay of free-thinking.
It’s always kinda shocking to me when the detractor talking points match the AI corpo hype blow by blow.
I need to see a lot more evidence of jobs becoming easier, more productive or entirely redundant.
See, I’m troubled by that one because it sounds good on paper, but in practice that means that Google and Meta, who can certainly build licenses into their EULAs trivially, would become the only government-sanctioned entities who can train AI. Established corpos were actively lobbying for similar measures early on.
And of course good luck getting China to give a crap, which in that scenario would be a better outcome, maybe.
Like you, I think copyright is broken past all functionality at this point. I would very much welcome an entire reconceptualization of it to support not just specific AI regulation but regulation of big data, fair use and user generated content. We need a completely different framework at this point.
How do you “destroy it”? I mean, you can download an open source model to your computer right now in like five minutes. It’s not Skynet, you can’t just physically blow it up.
Ah, yes, the 14th century. That renowned period of independent critical thought and mainstream creativity. All downhill from there, I tell you.
You seem to have a lot more trust in the invisible hand of the market and the inability of corporations to change copyright regulations to their liking than I do.
I have seen no evidence that “as long as people are paying other people” the money goes anywhere but towards billionaires. And… well, the absolute dismantling of public domain has been a running gag for ages.
And again, the corpos would not need to pay anybody anyway. Google already has a perfectly legal license to train AI on all of Youtube, Meta on all of Instagram and Facebook. You are telling me it’ll all even out in 100 years when the Internet goes into the public domain. That doesn’t sound like it’ll work the way you’re saying it’ll work.