The LLM era doesn't give credit or attribution to its sources. It erases exposure. So there's a disincentive to collaborate with it, because it only takes.
> I think IP laws are in for a reckoning, protecting creativity by restricting it is not the best idea in the world.
We've been having this discussion for over 20 years since the Napster era, or even the era of elaborate anti piracy measures for computer games distributed on tapes 40 years ago.
I've reached the conclusion that the stable equilibrium is "small shadow world": enough IP leakage for piracy and preservation, but on a noncommercial scale. We sit with our Plex boxes and our adblockers, knowing that 90% of the world isn't doing that and is paying for it. Too much control is an IP monopoly stranglehold where it costs multiple dollars to set a song as your phone ringtone or briefly heard background music gets your video vaporised off social media. Too _little_ control and eventually there is actually a real economic loss from piracy, and original content does not get made.
AI presents a third threat: unlimited pseudo-creative "slop", which is cheap and adequate to fill people's scrolling time but does not pay humans for its creation and atrophys the creative ecosystem.
The LLM era doesn't give credit or attribution to its sources. It erases exposure. So there's a disincentive to collaborate with it, because it only takes.
> I think IP laws are in for a reckoning, protecting creativity by restricting it is not the best idea in the world.
We've been having this discussion for over 20 years since the Napster era, or even the era of elaborate anti piracy measures for computer games distributed on tapes 40 years ago.
I've reached the conclusion that the stable equilibrium is "small shadow world": enough IP leakage for piracy and preservation, but on a noncommercial scale. We sit with our Plex boxes and our adblockers, knowing that 90% of the world isn't doing that and is paying for it. Too much control is an IP monopoly stranglehold where it costs multiple dollars to set a song as your phone ringtone or briefly heard background music gets your video vaporised off social media. Too _little_ control and eventually there is actually a real economic loss from piracy, and original content does not get made.
AI presents a third threat: unlimited pseudo-creative "slop", which is cheap and adequate to fill people's scrolling time but does not pay humans for its creation and atrophys the creative ecosystem.