Thousands of authors demand payment from AI companies for use of copyrighted works::Thousands of published authors are requesting payment from tech companies for the use of their copyrighted works in training artificial intelligence tools, marking the latest intellectual property critique to target AI development.

  • novibe@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    You know what would solve this? We all collectively agree this fucking tech is too important to be in the hands of a few billionaires, start an actual public free open source fully funded and supported version of it, and use it to fairly compensate every human being on Earth according to what they contribute, in general?

    Why the fuck are we still allowing a handful of people to control things like this??

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        1 year ago

        No entity on the planet has more money than our governments. It’d be more efficient for a government to fund this than any private company.

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          Actually many bills are more of a fabric material now than an actual paper product. Many bills in Europe now are polymer based. Both of which add to the difficulty of counterfeiting

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            Actually most of the money are just 1‘s and 0‘s in a computer, coming into existence from nothing and vanishing into nothing. Fiat money backed by “trust”. As Henry Ford once said:

            It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.

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        I think the longer response to this is more accurate. It’s more “because capitalism” than anything else.

        And capitalism over the course of the 20th century made very successful attempts of alienating completely the working class and destroying all class consciousness or material awareness.

        So people keep thinking that the problems is we as individuals are doing capitalism wrong. Not capitalism.

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        You kind of can though? The bigger models aren’t really more complicated, just bigger. If you can cram enough ram or swap into a laptop, lamma.cpp will get there eventually.