Altman: "AI will generate enough wealth to pay each adult $13,500 a year." This bullshit claim implies that AI will produce some kind of universal basic income for "each adult," which is of course nonsense. The windfall will go directly into tech bro pockets.
100%. And even is it didn't, you think they're going to distribute UBI for you to spend as you please? No, it will come down as vouchers that MUST be spent on Amazon, Apple, Spotify etc...
The content that’s available online has already been ingested by all major AI models, I think this is more about legalising that and avoiding future action by creators.
In other news, if you liked Zero Day (loved it), also try Paradise on Disney+ (UK).
Thanks for the recommendation, allow me to share a quote by someone far, far smarter than me: "Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone." Jaron Lanier
Thanks for taking the time to pen such a thoughtful answer Amos, much appreciated. My slightly briefer reply is that, first, you are right, 'the idea that every copy of an idea must be paid for is not inherent or inevitable' but the same can be said of just about every system upon which civilization is built. I'm not an advocate for tearing everything down just because it didn't exist in pre-history. Artists have built their lives on copyright and they don't deserve to have that stolen out from under them.
Second, individuals taking in influences, funneling them through their unique experience and creating something new out of them as a cottage industry is not an apples-to-apples comparison with giant corporations doing this at scale not with the intention to create but to exploit.
Third, the early Jamaican model you mentioned - which I found really interesting so thanks for bringing that to my attention - is essentially how creative freelancers are paid, including me, but the only people who could afford to pay a band for an entire day to keep a copy of a song are millionaires and corporations, which would deny regular folks access to music.
Wu Tang Clan took this to extreme when they produced one, single copy of their album and sold it directly to a single buyer for $5million - great for them (yay!), terrible for the music industry (yay!!), but disastrous for fans (boo!!!).
Altman: "AI will generate enough wealth to pay each adult $13,500 a year." This bullshit claim implies that AI will produce some kind of universal basic income for "each adult," which is of course nonsense. The windfall will go directly into tech bro pockets.
100%. And even is it didn't, you think they're going to distribute UBI for you to spend as you please? No, it will come down as vouchers that MUST be spent on Amazon, Apple, Spotify etc...
The content that’s available online has already been ingested by all major AI models, I think this is more about legalising that and avoiding future action by creators.
In other news, if you liked Zero Day (loved it), also try Paradise on Disney+ (UK).
Thanks for the recommendation, allow me to share a quote by someone far, far smarter than me: "Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone." Jaron Lanier
Thanks for taking the time to pen such a thoughtful answer Amos, much appreciated. My slightly briefer reply is that, first, you are right, 'the idea that every copy of an idea must be paid for is not inherent or inevitable' but the same can be said of just about every system upon which civilization is built. I'm not an advocate for tearing everything down just because it didn't exist in pre-history. Artists have built their lives on copyright and they don't deserve to have that stolen out from under them.
Second, individuals taking in influences, funneling them through their unique experience and creating something new out of them as a cottage industry is not an apples-to-apples comparison with giant corporations doing this at scale not with the intention to create but to exploit.
Third, the early Jamaican model you mentioned - which I found really interesting so thanks for bringing that to my attention - is essentially how creative freelancers are paid, including me, but the only people who could afford to pay a band for an entire day to keep a copy of a song are millionaires and corporations, which would deny regular folks access to music.
Wu Tang Clan took this to extreme when they produced one, single copy of their album and sold it directly to a single buyer for $5million - great for them (yay!), terrible for the music industry (yay!!), but disastrous for fans (boo!!!).
Cheers man, N