Technology

Honestly the most fair take iv ever heard.

Hate or love AI it's here it's staying. The pandoras box is open.

Hate or love how it's trained, the fundamental truth is it's here and it's staying.

This isn't the first or the last time a tool or technique will be built off theft, slave labor or mass murder and atrocities to just name a few awful things that have progressed us forward.

All that matters going forward is we do what we have always done. Socially agree to manage and regulate it. Push for laws and legal regulations to be put into place to protect the weakest and vulnerable.

Then to the best of our ability use the new tool to improve our lives, others lives, create new art and hobbies, and find a place for the tool.

Every tool in all of History has had some good come from its creation. So if people find a way to make stories, art, music or other creations using it. And they enjoy it, then that's all that matters. If others also enjoy it then there's no reason to tell people to not share.

Massive models with their data centers are a step too fair at the moment and likey always will be. But locally ran models are a fun toy and a fun tool.

So if someone makes an ai book, is clear and honest it's an ai book, then wether or not it's well written or not. If it's enjoyable or not. Is up to the consumer of the work.

Its not like ai can't create neat things.

Sure I get his position.... But he's wrong. AI books will devalue romance, penny novels, sci-fi and many more quick and dirty type of writings.

I mean ai by nature is ripping someone off but ok. Thanks for posting the context though, much appreciated

Will they label which books are AI? No law says they have to. Now never can shop there ever again because can't trust the books.

I don't get why people think they can have a career as a LLM middleman.

If I wanted to read a book written by a plagiarism machine about a subject I want, I'll just ask it myself.

I don't need someone else to ask it to write a book.

Same for LLM movies, or music.

If Hollywood thinks it can fire all the creatives and just spam out LLM generated content, well, so can the audience...

I would rather read... anything else? It's not like we have a shortage of books and especially not bad books.

Can confirm. I use AI quite a bit, including writing stories where I have editorial control (that's a dumb decision, she does the other thing!). The best AIs might be able to manage one short passable chapter, but it's going to be shot quality without massive amounts of hand holding and rewriting.

It can be entertaining in a choose your own adventure sense where each page really only needs to be barely coherent and minimally cohesive with the other pages. I sure as hell wouldn't pay $25 for an AI-penned book.

The first book burning where 0 knowledge is lost.

So long as you steal the books - absolutely don't give them a cent or we're just supporting the industry.

Effectively China is the only major market where AI generated outputs are granted copyright. And even then, it's a hard maybe. This makes zero sense to me as a business move.

You can find many copyrighted works online, people still buy them.

This isn't really true. The courts have held that there needs to be some human involvement, but that involvement can be pretty minimal.

You assume the buyer would know.

Every day we get a little closer to Idiocracy being real.

The one near me has a large kids section and a number of events for kids. They also have a coffee shop and pleasant reading area. I think they still also sell books.

This right here.