@bored said in AI Megathread:
Are we fans of the DMCA now?
There’s certainly room to improve copyright laws, but am I a fan of the broad principles behind it? Of protecting creators’ work? Absolutely.
Creators are going nowhere because large language models and stable diffusion type graphic models are dumb.
I don’t just mean they’re dumb on principle, I mean they’re dumb logically and artistically. They’re parrots who don’t understand the world they’re parroting. They don’t understand jack about the human experience.
They can never write a news article about an event that just happened - not until some human writes it first so they can copy it. They can’t write a biography about a person who hasn’t been born yet, or generate an image of Ford’s new automobile, or write late-night jokes about the day’s events - not until a human has done something for them to copy. They will not - and can not - ever generate something truly original, inspired, or new.
Now to be fair, a lot of human creations are unoriginal and uninspired too, but we at least have the potential to do better. Generative AI doesn’t.
And this isn’t just a bug that they can fix in version 2.0. It’s baked into the very core of how they work.
JMS had a great essay on this.
I also liked Adam Conover’s video essay.
I don’t mean to downplay the harm that generative AI tools can cause to creatives. But this tech is nowhere near as transformative as the tech hype would like us to believe.