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I get the impression that many peoples' grievance with generative AI (text, code, images etc.) isn't _really_ about the data provenance. Or at least, it feels s
by angusturner 4y ago
I get the impression that many peoples' grievance with generative AI (text, code, images etc.) isn't _really_ about the data provenance. Or at least, it feels secondary, compared to the general disruptive nature of the tech.
If tomorrow someone released a StableDiffusion, CoPilot etc with the same functionality, but respecting the provenance of the data (i.e. licensing etc), what concrete difference would this make? Programmers and other creative professionals would still (reasonably) be nervous about the implications for their livelihoods and communities.
At some point it will be possible to prompt a model for music in the style of <random artist>, and having never heard <random artist>, the model will generate a convincing emulation, based purely on statistical knowledge gleaned from millions of unrelated songs and text pairs. (I give it 5 years).
Now what? <random artist> should still be concerned (or not), but at least we're talking about the correct issue: How do we co-exist with generative models that massively disrupt/alter the process of doing creative or intellectual work?
- jackdaniel 4y agoSometimes when working on software the goal is not to get a competitive advantage, but to promote some ideas. Copyleft license is a tool that aims to help with granting, that the work derivatives are available to the public to read and modify (i.e to prevent closing the source code of the program that is commercially sold). The concrete difference you ask about is that the work derived from copyleft code retains the license and the source code can't be closed. If you scrap the license, then the code created by someone who had clear goal in mind when writing it for not making improvements over it closed source, ends up with possibility of being closed source.