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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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If we don't have the power to stop generative AI, then what makes you think we have the power the change copyright law? Generative AI uses up huge amount of power and water to the point of causing issues for national infrastructure. There is a clear climate case to be made against generative AI and unlike copyright law the public actually care about climate change.
You cannot stop GenAI unless you stop sales of all gaming GPUs and recall all sold ones world wide. You just can't. That cat's out of the bag. You can try to restrict big corpos like OpenAI, but your politicians and bought already. Therefore adding your voice to trying to "stop GenAI" via copyright laws is just playing yourself. You can try to restrict GenAI via climate protections, but that will go as well as efforts to stop supporting genocides (or as well efforts have gone to protect the climate anyway).
If our politicians are already bought and sold to the point that calling for these industries to be regulated is pointless, then why would politicians listen to our calls for 'open weights by default'.
Bro that OpenAI clown daddy literally went to congress telling them to regulate them straight of Faceberg's playbook. These parasites ask for regulation once they feel good enough about their position.
Regulation entrenches them, after that it is time to harvest profits from captured market and abuse the peasants to Z MAX