Comment by xdennis
6 months ago
> It's abusive and wrong to try and prevent AI companies from using your works at all.
People don't view moral issues in the abstract.
A better perspective on this is the fact that human individuals have created works which megacorps are training on for free or for the price of a single book and creating models which replace individuals.
The megacorps are only partially replacing individuals now, but when the models get good enough they could replace humans entirely.
When such a future happens will you still be siding with them or with individual creators?
> A better perspective on this is the fact that human individuals have created works which megacorps are training on for free or for the price of a single book and creating models which replace individuals.
Those damn kind readers and libraries. Giving their single copy away when they just paid for the single.
Going to the library and reading a book takes hours while AI companies chew thousands of books per second. It's different scale.