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archomrade@midwest.social 10 months agoI don’t get your meaning actually - are you saying: ‘you are in favor of theft in the name of AI’, or ‘you are agreeing that AI is theft’?
LWD@lemm.ee 10 months ago
You described machines as efficient, and I am agreeing with you: The machines in question are efficient at stealing. Do you agree with this, or is there some detail in this that offends you?
archomrade@midwest.social 10 months ago
Oh, well then no, I’m not sure I agree. Doesn’t offend me though!
But that’s not because I don’t think that creators should be paid, I just happen to think they should be paid regardless of how well the work can be monetized. AI is just another tool, like the cotton gin. Useful, maybe not for art, but also not innately good or bad by itself.
LWD@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I count your virtue of wanting artists to be paid sufficiently signaled. However, by using the common AI defender thought terminating cliche “it’s just a tool” you’ve cut short any rational conversation about how this tool has been used, and will continue to be used, to steal in scale.
Your fantasies sound nice, but why not engage in reality?
archomrade@midwest.social 10 months ago
Theft of work value from the working class has existed since kings and queens have married their cousins.
Anger at AI for theft is just plainly misdirected. I count your condemnation of theft sufficiently signaled, though.