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Musicians are trained on everyone's music too

But they have tastes and preferences in a way that the models lack — unless, possibly, if you have them retrained sufficiently long by a single individual or small group, I guess.

Computers aren’t human. Software isn’t people.

Define people. Or more specifically, define what make them special.

This isn’t about specialness, it’s about the foundations of civil society. People are meat and guts humans.

We’re autonomous entities capable of higher reasoning, limited in time, attention and talent and eventually die allowing new people time to flourish.

We also pay taxes and make silly arguments about software and humans being no different from each other because it justifies our ability to play with cool toys without considering the impact on other people. Corporations aren’t people though because they aren’t cool like AI.

Take your PC to the courthouse and tell the judge it’s liable for damages, not you.

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