But who should pay? The model developers? Training models is a cost center. And what about open source AI, should we legislate it out of existence?
How about the AI providers? they operate on thin margins, and make just cents a million tokens. If one provider is too expensive, users quickly switch.
Maybe the users? Users derive the lion share of benefits from AI. But those benefits are hard to quantize.
Maybe a blanket tax? That would simplify things, but would put all creatives on a quantitative rather than qualitative criteria.
I think generative AI is the worst copyright infringement tool ever devised. It's slow, expensive and imprecise. On the other hand copying is fast, free and perfect. I think nobody can, for science, regurgitate a full book with AI, it won't have fidelity to the original.
The real enemy of any artist is the long tail of works, sometimes spanning decades, that they have to compete against. So it's other authors. That is why we are in an attention economy, and have seen the internet enshittified.
The most creative part of internet ignores copyright royalties. From open source, to wikipedia, open scientific publication and even social networks, if everyone demanded royalties none of them would be possible.
>> The real enemy of any artist is the long tail of works, sometimes spanning decades, that they have to compete against.
Had to check this wasn’t sama.
You seriously believe the real enemy of artists is other artists? Not the guys making billions and trying to convince us “the computers are just reading it like a human”?
> The most creative part of internet ignores copyright royalties. From open source, to wikipedia, open scientific publication and even social networks, if everyone demanded royalties none of them would be possible.
Notably, in all of these cases the people involved consent to participating.
How about the AI providers? they operate on thin margins, and make just cents a million tokens. If one provider is too expensive, users quickly switch.
Maybe the users? Users derive the lion share of benefits from AI. But those benefits are hard to quantize.
Maybe a blanket tax? That would simplify things, but would put all creatives on a quantitative rather than qualitative criteria.
I think generative AI is the worst copyright infringement tool ever devised. It's slow, expensive and imprecise. On the other hand copying is fast, free and perfect. I think nobody can, for science, regurgitate a full book with AI, it won't have fidelity to the original.
The real enemy of any artist is the long tail of works, sometimes spanning decades, that they have to compete against. So it's other authors. That is why we are in an attention economy, and have seen the internet enshittified.
The most creative part of internet ignores copyright royalties. From open source, to wikipedia, open scientific publication and even social networks, if everyone demanded royalties none of them would be possible.