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by bleep_bloop
1158 days ago
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If people can not protect or make a living from their work then they lose some of the motivation to create, many will stop producing work altogether. Interestingly, AI had to steal creators work to exist and did so without permission. AI in its current conception is cannibalising its own source material and risks being regulated out of existence. Had OpenAI et all acted responsible and within copyright law, they would have only used free use material. Instead they scraped social media and creator websites on the basis that if it was online it's 'fair use'. People have a right to protect their work. I expect to see many lawsuits brought against AI companies in the next coming years. |
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To me this issue looks a lot like self-driving cars. There was not any law saying that a car had to have a human driver, so Google was able to have its self-driving cars go coast-to-coast and it was 100% legal.
Your point about people making a living from work is a good one though, how do we continue to incentivize art in a world where everything posted online is included in the training set for some ML model? Well, lots of people do create art without making any money off of it today, so there's that, and I think at the high-end people will still want artisinal art made by a real human being. In the middle I think a lot of art jobs will either radically change or disappear, like logo design will probably still include a person, but the tools they use will be totally different. That seems like a good thing. However, again, in the middle range, a few people will be able to do way more work which will drastically reduce the number of people who actually get paid to do art. I'm not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing. We're not talking about like fine art, but logos, website backdrops, etc. Certainly if we see a problem where people cannot be paid to do *anything* then that is a huge problem that society will have to solve or else it will be imperiled as well as leaving a ton of people out to dry. I really see some form of UBI as the only way forward, and then perhaps many people who would like to get paid to do art, but can't, will produce art while on UBI? IDK. There are a lot of intertwined issued here.