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Media Companies Like Vox Are Feeding Their Journalists' Work Into An AI Wood Chipper
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this post was submitted on 30 May 2024
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This is exactly what people like me warned about. The push for copyright-protections against GenAI is not going to stop GenAI. It's just going to create a future where only the big players can make AI models because they can pay for "licenses" with those strong enough to threaten them (while scraping everyone else anyway) and just kill open sourced models.
We're seeing it play it exactly like that. Y'all can't stop GenAI. You literally don't have enough power where it counts. The only sane solution is to push that any GenAI model trained on public data must have open weights by default.
Copyright/IP/patent law started as way to allow people to feed themselves off their labour but somehow this shit got turned into corpo fascist regime where "owners" own everything ever created indefinitely and they will use daddy Sam's BBC of laws to fuck any opposition.
Check out what happened when copyrights were first enacted. It was another enclosures "gold rush" where scammers went around and copied traditional songs people were using and declated copyrights, then went around and sued those same people.
there is never a shortage of parasitic rent seekers and money changers...
society has yet to find a good way to deal with them but we got this: