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This is not entirely ludite. Massive AI models has to be trained on the massive amount of data from the internet, which is built by the entirety of the humankin
by esjeon 4y ago
This is not entirely ludite. Massive AI models has to be trained on the massive amount of data from the internet, which is built by the entirety of the humankind. However, the profit from those models is not being systemically redistributed to the society. Those AI companies are standing right on a copyright gray zone, and are abusing people's goodwill to benefit only a select few. The social capital that built the internet culture will get dried up, and the internet will become a misery filled with AI-generated low quality contents injected with user-tracking ads.
- hypertele-Xii 4y agoThe Internet has already become a misery filled with low quality contents injected with user-tracking ads. Adding "AI-generated" into the phrase doesn't really change much. If you make the argument of scale matters, then I think that'll also democratize art. Photography didn't put artists out of commission, it brought realism as an art form to the hands of the masses. There's plenty of creativity left to be had post-AI. Now an entirely new class of people enter the realm of multi-disciplinary art, since they can compensate for personal deficit in side-fields. The profits from these models go into running them. They don't fit on consumer-grade hardware. However, I do believe that society should subsidise art, and distribute automated wealth somewhat evenly, so I don't even disagree with you. I'm from such society and it's pretty great. "The Internet" is just other people's computers. Don't like AI content? Don't visit those sites. Not every site has ads, either. Hosting is the cheapest it's ever been. It's a curation and reputation issue.
- deely3 4y ago> However, I do believe that society should subsidise art, and distribute automated wealth somewhat evenly, so I don't even disagree with you. I'm from such society and it's pretty great. Are you from future or from non-profit DeviantArt community?
- hypertele-Xii 4y agoI'm from Finland where the baseline social security is home, food, heat, water, electricity, Internet, education, and healthcare. There are no starving artists here :)
- deely3 4y agoOh. Future then. Ok.
- dools 4y agoYes the odious part is not about how much labour it will eliminate but about how it will take a “commons” and enclose it much the same as pharmaceutical patents have done for folk remedies or the enclosure of common lands.
- HDThoreaun 4y agoYou are describing a situation very similar to what the Luddites went through. When the automated clothes making systems showed up they all lost their jobs and the profit went to the capital owners instead of being redistributed to society. It just turns out that technology creates so much value that even without proper distribution it's still an overwhelmingly good thing.
- hajile 4y agoIt’s not a “gray zone”. Derivative works are flatly covered by copyright law and this definitely doesn’t meet any of the fair use criteria either.