Companies having done that doesn’t make it fundamental to the technology. That’s just something a lot of people who base their worldview on article headlines parrot.
Don’t get me wrong, those practices are bad. But they come from the incentives and behaviour of the companies involved. The technology doesn’t require them. That’s a failure of a system that rewards companies for taking whatever they can get away with.
All of this is a capitalism problem, focusing on the technology is a distraction that will never achieve anything.
tl;dr
AI is built from mass theft and anything built with it deserves to be stolen.
Companies having done that doesn’t make it fundamental to the technology. That’s just something a lot of people who base their worldview on article headlines parrot.
Don’t get me wrong, those practices are bad. But they come from the incentives and behaviour of the companies involved. The technology doesn’t require them. That’s a failure of a system that rewards companies for taking whatever they can get away with.
All of this is a capitalism problem, focusing on the technology is a distraction that will never achieve anything.