In a recent filing with the UK Parliament, OpenAI stated: “It would be impossible to train today’s leading AI models without using copyrighted materials. Limiting training data to public domain books and drawings created more than a century ago might yield an interesting experiment, but would not provide AI systems that meet the needs of today’s citizens.” Then, more recently, “If you were to do private negotiations for every piece of content that you need to train one of these models,” they wouldn’t exist… “Inherent in these statements is the assumption that the world is demanding AI created works, they need to exist and somehow artists are standing in the way. There are 100 million music tracks on Spotify, do we really need more? There are 3,600 movies and 1,800 television shows on NetFlix, do we really need more? Nova Southeastern University's Copyright Officer, Stephen Carlisle, J.D., takes a look at the big picture, and discovers AI is just another bad business model proposed by big tech companies, who expect artists to subsidize their bad judgement.
I agree that the “fruits” of neural networks come from the proletarian artist, because without them, there cannot be any content made of this magnitude. The stunning images created by AI inherently rely on the labor of artists, so its commodity-value—its visual appeal—is thus identical to the labor-value that was scraped into its dataset. In layman’s terms, the artists made the art, and AI imagery looks good because it was taken from that art.
I couldn’t disagree more!
We dont need new music? We don’t need new content? That’s absurd. What kind of naive opinion is that? Ai gives a person unprecedented power to create. That’s fantastic!
Something else is the copyright issue. I don’t know how to address that, but generally my idea of copyright is a bit different anyway. In any case the cat is out of the bag so the direction should be open source models.
What sort of life are you living where you still need more content, more so that the rate it’s produced? People from all across the globe are making art using all sorts of tools, there are video games being made all the time, and all LLMs are doing right now is regurgitating the same garbage. Why is this development so important? This isn’t taking a break from work, this isn’t solving climate change, this isn’t self-care or innovating in healthcare!
I couldn’t disagree more! We dont need new music? We don’t need new content? That’s absurd. What kind of naive opinion is that? Ai gives a person unprecedented power to create. That’s fantastic!
Something else is the copyright issue. I don’t know how to address that, but generally my idea of copyright is a bit different anyway. In any case the cat is out of the bag so the direction should be open source models.
What sort of life are you living where you still need more content, more so that the rate it’s produced? People from all across the globe are making art using all sorts of tools, there are video games being made all the time, and all LLMs are doing right now is regurgitating the same garbage. Why is this development so important? This isn’t taking a break from work, this isn’t solving climate change, this isn’t self-care or innovating in healthcare!
Automation is supposed to take time away from physically maufacturing goods so people can take time off to make art; why, then, when the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals are still out of reach, are you people trying to automate art?