I can't tell if your implication is what meta did is fine or just that your brain is as good as an AI?
Could you clearly speak your point?
Could you clearly speak your point?
Extrapolated out into some new future a hundred years from now when we have embodied AI humanoids walking alongside us, would it be weird if those humanoids were barred from buying a new book or charged a different rate than the humans they coexist with?
I’m still deciding how I feel about some of this too.
I'm not even against this to a point. The issue is what comes after. The monetization. The enshitification. The derivatives in place of real creativity.
The only way to prevent the things you are worried about is to let anyone train a model, and then compete to make the best product.
The enshittifying monopolies and big copyright holders are the only ones that would benefit from locking down training data or regulating AI compute.
They're not being charged, that would be a vast improvement over reality.
But if they had done that, I bet they would have been sued anyway.
“Because you wouldn’t have sold it to me. Or even if you would have, you would have put such onerous terms on it that I’d rather take this path.”
(Not saying this makes it right)
So just buying copies wouldn’t have helped them.
For a more direct counterexample, I can memorize something and type it back out, but if it is copyrighted the law doesn’t make an exception just because it passed through my head.
I do agree that we should encourage human creativity. But if AI isn't making copies, and the output of AI isn't awarded copyright (as is currently the case) then I think humans still have sufficient reward.
There will be a lot to figure out over the coming years.
On the other hand, they torrented books and then open sourced LLM weights. No punishment is too severe for that!
If you still don’t understand, I strongly suggest watching Max Headroom, “Lessons”, which you can get here:
Those people who conflate them deserve it. You and me don't.
> there's really not much you, I or anyone else can do
We can make our own community. And Bluesky is very much not it.
I agree with you until this part. There comes a time where I don't think I deserve to get my eyes poked out just because other people find that fashionable.