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by jimmaswell 661 days ago
No one needs consent to learn from public information. If an AI can look at your drawing and code, then later draw a correct elbow and make the right API call for someone, they have benefitted without taking anything away from you. To try to stop this process because you think you deserve royalties and consent every time someone uses a fact they learned from you would be absurdly entitled.
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If an AI can look at your drawing and code, then later draw a correct elbow and make the right API call for someone, they have benefitted without taking anything away from you.

This is like saying if a publishing company takes excerpts from your work, and builds products from it -- without your permission, and of course without paying you royalties of any kind -- they have benefitted without taking anything away from you.

The tech companies call this "learning" of course, but that's just subterfuge.