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by csallen 3y ago
I never argued that AI doesn't need to worry about citing influences. If I am a person using a tool to create a work, and the final product clearly resembles some copyrighted work that I need to reference and give credit to, what does
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by csallen 3y ago
A company hires an artist. That artist has observed a ton of other artists' work over the years. The company instructs that artist to draw, "X but in the style of Y", where Y is some copyrighted artwork. The company then prin
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by csallen 3y ago
The same principle applies, though. They can tell you maybe a dozen, maybe a few dozen, concepts they've learned and use in their work. But what about the thousands of concepts they use in their work they can't tell you about? The
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by csallen 3y ago
Most people know 20,000-40,000 words. Let's call it 30,000. You've learned 99.999% of those 30,000 people from other people. And don't get me started on phrases, cliches, sentence structures, etc. How many of those words do y
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by csallen 3y ago
> We don't need to kill it. Just pay your dang labor. > But if we are treating proper compensation as stifling technology, I'm not surprised people are against it. That's just it, nobody looking to get paid by OpenA
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by csallen 3y ago
I understand it. It's called jealousy. Their struggle to subsist has literally nothing to do with this other party's profits. By their own admission, their struggle to subsist was a choice. It was a choice they made before these
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by csallen 3y ago
(This is a response to your comment before you edited it.) Find the intersection of something that people increasingly value, that you enjoy, and that you can compete at. The best proof that people value something is that they're spend
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by csallen 3y ago
Jobs have never been less soul crushing, or more creative, in the history of humanity. And that becomes increasingly true every decade. Do you know what a job does? What a company does? It contributes to society! It produces something that
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by csallen 3y ago
Mass production hasn't killed art and never will. What's killing art is this idea by a vocal minority of "artists" that they need to mass produce their work, enter the market, and attempt to make millions of dollars by s
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by csallen 3y ago
Are there any humans that can produce artwork without ingesting inspiration from other art? Do you know any artists that lived in a box their whole life and never saw other art? Do you know any writers who'd never read a book? Are they
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by csallen 3y ago
Computers and machines have been capable of mass production for decades, and humans have used them as tools. In the past 170 years, these tools of mass production have already diminished many thousands of professions that were staffed by
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by csallen 3y ago
Of course these are just opinions. It just doesn't seem like a perspective that's serving them well, except to make them feel bad about the art that they've been putting out… in the same way… for years and years… unchanged… w
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by csallen 3y ago
Going out of your way to voluntarily choose to post your work on the internet, and on social media specifically, in order to market yourself and connect with new readers, is unpaid labor? No it's not. It's being sour that you live
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by csallen 3y ago
Why is the author so concerned about enriching profit-seeking companies?
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by csallen 3y ago
I don't think that's a good analogy. What matters is if the thing they're doing to test your security is similar to what criminals would do to breach your security. In the case of a physical location, that bar is low. It&#x27
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by csallen 3y ago
Sure, the count is tracked by the company Duolingo, but that's irrelevant. The count is also tracked by the user, and that's what's important. Even more importantly, the commitment to keep to the count is made by the user.
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by csallen 3y ago
They already have those video ads in a lot of taxis. And of course public transit has been plastered with paper ads for decades now. So what you're describing isn't much of a change from the status quo. Unless you believe the adve
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by csallen 3y ago
I don't mind the way codingdave put it, though. Sometimes it isn't your job to write code. In fact sometimes it's the opposite, and your job is to talk to people and explain to them why code doesn't need to be written. S
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by csallen 3y ago
Most religions spread virally, which means the marketers are the customers, which is usually a testament to the product/service being one that customers value. I say this as an atheist who's not a fan of religion, but people clear
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by csallen 3y ago
Has it not occurred to you that, if we want people to become productive working members of society, that perhaps allowing them to learn and work from prison might be rehabilitative?
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by csallen 3y ago
The level of entitlement here is outrageous. Social media monetizes via ads. Whether or not you like that practice, if you're going to force them to allow users to turn the ads off, how can you complain about them charging a monthly su
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by csallen 3y ago
I agree that copyright owners have rights. But what you're missing in your response is the fact that these rights are limited . And their limits are very specifically outlined by the law. When it comes to their works, copyright owners
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by csallen 3y ago
Copyright law only gives owners limited power to decide how copies are used. Not unlimited power. They have the sole right to make, distribute, perform, or display copies of their work… but that's it. They can't forbid others fr
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by csallen 3y ago
That's not how copyright works. Copyright law limits creating copies of a work, not interacting with copies of a work lol. Which means it doesn't apply to training. What you're describing is some totally new law that does
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by csallen 3y ago
Your point still doesn't make sense to me. Real humans today are creating art based on other artists' work. Their art would have absolutely zero chance of being created if not for the training, copying, and inspiration they&#x
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by csallen 3y ago
That's not how it works, never has been how it works, and should not be how it works. For thousands of years, human workers and artists have trained themselves by looking at copies of other people's work, and used the ideas and in
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by csallen 3y ago
Why do we as a society need to answer that question? When automobiles were popularized, entire generations of families and people devoted to horsecraft suddenly found their business model obsolete. Did we as a society need to come together
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by csallen 3y ago
- The vast majority of art created is done by people who don't have a full-time job creating art. So why does art have to pay the rent? - Lots of art still does pay the rent in ways that aren't threatened by AI. I haven't s
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by csallen 3y ago
Um, it's extremely comparable. You basically just described the human process, but used bigger numbers lol. Go on any art site, whether it's drawings or writing, and a massive amount of the human learning and inspiration you see i
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by csallen 3y ago
I despise the underlying belief here. That belief that the only reason people create art is based on desires for fame and monetary gain. Which is so demonstrably incorrect that it boggles my mind. This is where centuries of copyright law ha

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