Tech companies will create those tools no matter what. Then they will charge everyone through the nose for using them.
The question is whether:
- ONLY tech companies capable of paying scraps during 70 years after the author’s death are allowed to create those tools
- EVERYONE is allowed to train their own tool, without having to raise a few billion in seed capital
In this case, OpenAI is acting as “the devil’s advocate”… and it’s working to fool people into supporting the opposite position.
MudMan@kbin.social 9 months ago
That's not "coming", it's an ongoing process that has been going on for a couple hundred years, and it absolutely does not require ChatGPT.
People genuinely underestimate how many of these things have been an ongoing concern. A lot like crypto isn't that different to what you can do with a server, "AI" isn't a magic key that unlocks automation. I don't even know how this mental model works. Is the idea that companies who are currently hiring millions of copywriters will just rely on automated tools? I get that yeah, a bunch of call center people may get removed (again, a process that has been ongoing for decades), but how is compensating Facebook for scrubbing their social media posts for text data going to make that happen less?
Again, I think people don't understand the parameters of the problem, which is different from saying that there is no problem here. If anything the conversation is a net positive in that we should have been having it in 2010 when Amazon and Facebook and Google were all-in on this process already through both ML tools and other forms of data analysis.