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The AI genie is here. What we're deciding now is whether we all have access to it, or whether it's a privilege afforded only to rich people, corporations, and governments. (kbin.social)

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I know a lot of people want to interpret copyright law so that allowing a machine to learn concepts from a copyrighted work is copyright infringement, but I think what people will need to consider is that all that's going to do is keep AI out of the hands of regular people and place it specifically in the hands of people and organizations who are wealthy and powerful enough to train it for their own use.

If this isn't actually what you want, then what's your game plan for placing copyright restrictions on AI training that will actually work? Have you considered how it's likely to play out? Are you going to be able to stop Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and the NSA from training an AI on whatever they want and using it to push propaganda on the public? As far as I can tell, all that copyright restrictions will accomplish to to concentrate the power of AI (which we're only beginning to explore) in the hands of the sorts of people who are the least likely to want to do anything good with it.

I know I'm posting this in a hostile space, and I'm sure a lot of people here disagree with my opinion on how copyright should (and should not) apply to AI training, and that's fine (the jury is literally still out on that). What I'm interested in is what your end game is. How do you expect things to actually work out if you get the laws that you want? I would personally argue that an outcome where Mark Zuckerberg gets AI and the rest of us don't is the absolute worst possibility.

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[–] nottheengineer@feddit.de 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Agreed. The AI is rolling already, we can't stop it now. All we can do is make sure that this technology benefits everyone, not just coroprations.

[–] TwilightVulpine@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

We are coming to a reckoning not only of by who AI is used but how society is handled overall. We are getting to a point even intellectual work can be automated, and however spotty it might be now, AI will only get better at it. For the many, many people who will see their jobs automated, their biggest concern is not whether they will be allowed to use ChatGPT, it's whether they will have any kind of livelihood.

We are used to the idea that automation frees people to work less strenuous, more satisfying jobs, but what are we being freed to if even artistic expression is taken away from the hands of people? Rethinking how AI and automation benefits everyone needs to be done in a much larger scale.