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I disagree with the authors assertion that a simple watermark would solve the issue. I don't see how you can ever enforce something like a "Clean Air act" again
by hansonkd 3y ago
I disagree with the authors assertion that a simple watermark would solve the issue. I don't see how you can ever enforce something like a "Clean Air act" against AI. AI is a spectrum and thus it will be a gray area.
It would require a draconian system in place that would make people swear that content their posting isn't AI and then have steep penalties for breaking "the oath". But what if someone used a spell checker? Grammar checker? or sentence rewriting in Grammarly? should they be punished for breaking the "clean internet act"?
If an honor system doesn't work, then one possibility is to use an economic system so that there is a cost and value associated with the content being produced. However as we have seen with the decline of journalism, is that is hard to get people to pay for quality content. so the cheaper content would still win.
Maybe something like a legal tax for content produced could work though. If you produce over Xmb of content as an individual you start to get taxed on your "pollution" to the internet. Single internet user just posting: no tax, influencer posting youtube videos: small tax, AI company dumping out 1000s of books and 1000s of videos: big tax.
- BeFlatXIII 3y agoThe size difference between text and video is enough to kill a tax per gigabyte proposal.
- whywhywhywhy 3y ago>tax Don’t see why politicians should get to profit from it
- __loam 3y agoDo you just not understand what a tax is?
- bequanna 3y agoIt is naive to assume increased tax revenue doesn’t equate to increased power for those who control how that money is spent. It is OK to make an argument against taking power from one group by force and giving to another.
- __loam 3y agoOkay sure, we can make that argument. But that's not what they said. "Profiting" off public money is just embezzlement.
- sjfialfjdkapk 3y agoDemocratic power puts it in the hands of people. Now, if you’re saying that your democracy doesn’t serve its people — I wouldn’t blame the politicians. You might want to take a look at why politicians don’t act in the interests of the population
- 3seashells 3y ago[dead]
- gpderetta 3y agoinb4 "This article contains text known in the state of California to be processed by AI"
- singleshot_ 3y agoAnalogy is to plagiarism. The normal person content industry seems to do an okay job ejecting plagiarists and they should be encouraged to do the same with ai generated sludge.
- arp242 3y agoIt doesn't need to be 100% perfect or watertight. Almost no law is. All laws are easy to break. I could quite literally walk up to someone and punch them in the face right now. And chances are I won't be caught. I could also push someone. Would that be assault? What if I merely touch them? Almost everything is a spectrum and has gray areas.