GenAI tools ‘could not exist’ if firms are made to pay copyright::undefined

  • nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
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    9 months ago

    Yeah…it’s pretty weird. Feels like some folks have really dived into LLMs regardless of ethics and will do any amount of hand waving to avoid criticism of a for-profit company openly attacking creatives’ livelihood with their own uncompensated works. In an ideal world where it wasn’t a case of “earn or die cold and alone in the streets”, sure, but this is just robbing those workers of the fruits of their labor and burning the ladder while

    I think the “neoliberal zeitgeist” thought may be correct as neoliberal ideology devalues anything and everything that is not solely profit-driven, including just about everything that humans have historically found to make life meaningful.