Stop AI plundering
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Everything she says applies to the US as well.
Eric Schmidt, former head of Google, has said, “We don’t need you to type at all. We know where you are. We know where you’ve been. We can more or less know what you’re thinking about.”
I can't help but think of William Saffire's rants and raves over the protection of our privacy. He must be turning in his grave.
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@Piano-Dad said in Stop AI plundering:
I looked at this topic title and wondered, "what is Big Al" plundering?
Big Al
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In the scheme of global harms committed by the tech bros – the undermining of democracies, the decimation of privacy, the open gauntlet to scams and abuse – stealing one Australian author’s life’s work and ruining their livelihood is a peccadillo.
How does it ruin an author’s livelihood? It’s not like AI will read to the book to me if I ask it. If I want to buy a book, I’ll buy a book. That AI read it already doesn’t, and can’t, figure into that decision.
What am I missing?
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In the scheme of global harms committed by the tech bros – the undermining of democracies, the decimation of privacy, the open gauntlet to scams and abuse – stealing one Australian author’s life’s work and ruining their livelihood is a peccadillo.
How does it ruin an author’s livelihood? It’s not like AI will read to the book to me if I ask it. If I want to buy a book, I’ll buy a book. That AI read it already doesn’t, and can’t, figure into that decision.
What am I missing?
@jon-nyc said in Stop AI plundering:
What am I missing?
AI never asked for permission to use the creator's work in the manner in which it is being used, and the author is not being credited for the work they did, the latter being more relevant to livelihood. Attributions lead readers to the source, the source gains every time a reader, based on the quotes they've read, decide to buy the work(s).
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I still don’t see how it’s ’taking away’ their livelihood. True they could pay them for the novel use they put their works to, but the way the authors got paid before AI existed seems unchanged to me.
@jon-nyc Well yeah, the way they got paid before AI hasn't changed. But they get paid royalties when someone uses their work in any substantial way. AI's thieving "masterminds" aren't paying royalites for millions of copyrighted words. They're stealing them.
