Technology

Despite protests, whining, and even a few tears, I managed to convince my son that just as we must respect other children’s “toys” at school, we also must respect the “rights” of IP owners by not taking or using what belongs to others. Fortunately, Google’s platform includes a filter that prevents generating content involving well-known characters or protected IP. And, with that safeguard in place, we were able to return to story time, and all sleep a little better that night.

This paragraph made me irrationally angry, like, what the fuck.

Genuinely at a loss for words.

This is the first AI story where I actually side with the AI

So a bad parent tells the story of how his child was innocently engaging his creativity with a tool his father provided and then the father taught the child in a potentially traumatizing way that there's wrongthink possible when some wealthy people have decided they need to collect rent from everyone for engaging with culture. And dad blames the tool rather than the IP laws he supports that actually created the problem he now punished his child for unwittingly encountering with natural human behaviors such as curiosity and imagination.

And dad writes about it like he wants a cookie from the other IP profiteers since he was willing to throw his son under the bus to make a bad and misdirected point.

Good bedtime story. And the dragon slept happily on his hoard of IP forever knowing that the guards would stop even their own children from trying to "steal" it. The end.

Why are we giving exposure to someone whose job it is to enforce restrictive copyright laws and who uses the term "intellectual property"?