Given the published and (and currently expressing) philosophies of the primary investors and shareholders of those companies, it is no longer any mystery why!
Healthcare data does not. What data does exist is much more private and extracting data from research papers is much harder than extracting data from images. When something goes wrong, the impact is much more negative if it is being used in any serious capacity.
This is also why AI is just beginning to crack into short video and does nothing for long form videos yet, and even less on games, despite these falling in arts and crafts.
And so many tech bros misunderstand. Its not a problem with the tools and its not the money. Artists have extensive experience going hungry. So have I. I doubt many tech bros and technocrats know what starving feels like. Real hunger. But I digress.
Its how the tech is being wielded. Its not just: can the robot imitate a nice picture. Its: artists are deprecated.
And it mistakes artifice and artifact for art as a practice, and so conveniently cannot process any information about the subject beyond that final conclusion.
None of this is hidden or arcane stuff, but effort has to be made to learn new perspectives… kind of like how the world has readily adopted new technology.
What should be a reciprocal exchange is rapidly turning one sided and tyrannical.
Woe be the future where any such single-minded ignorance takes absolute control (as is the current missive emerging out of SV at present)
See Yarvin’s missive as adopted by so many VC’s in the current political plays. The way the tech is being wielded is all about power. Forced power over others. https://graymirror.substack.com/p/the-butterfly-revolution
This cannot be overstated.
As a part time artist, AI has been great for me. I’m creating more, and spending less time on scaffolding (I am a middling-at-best programmer). I’m feeling empowered, not crushed.
How can you say something like this as Meta steals 82gb of text from the worlds writers and producers of knowledge without compensation, on the sly, to build their system?
Its the thieving and the disrespect!
This does not bode well for the future. If you think it stops at the artists you have so much contempt for, think again.
This is exactly about tools, tools and the fact that people with no artistic ability have relied on them heavily, it's not my problem or the problem of OpenAI that people are just bad at art, but people are indeed bad at art, and it's always people who blabber on about the tools.
Oh yeah, and while I'm at it, I don't believe in copyright, so there is that too.
Are you over-generalizing, something like “meta did something wrong to build AI, therefore AI is bad, therefore nobody can ever do anything good with AI”?
The reason for both things is that the best models perform, at best, on the level of a recent graduate.
When would you hire a recent graduate in either role, if you could afford better?
These models are essentially the same models for both science and art, and it was a surprise to everyone that GPT-3 was able to turn into ChatGPT, or that Stable Diffusion was able to generalise so well with relatively few issues (even despite the occasional Cronenberg anatomy study). The flaws with the LLMs that prevent accurate science are the same flaws that cause object impermanence in written stories; the flaws that prevent image and video models from being physically plausible are the same flaws — incorrect world model — that cause them to be wrong about weather forecasts, chemistry, etc.
In both cases, increasing quality of AI raises the metaphorical water level, and in this example rising tides don't lift all boats, but instead drown (the careers of) people who can't swim. I don't have a fix for that, and I'm deeply skeptical that any of the suggestions from the AI firms will work — they're not economists, and even if they were (or even if they hired loads), if the AI companies are right, this change will be at least as big as the industrial revolution, which upended old economic models.