AI systems are fueled by the stolen labour of creative people, as well as the labour of millions of underpaid data-inputting workers around the world who are performing repetitive tasks under precarious labour conditions often recruited out of impoverished populations around the world.
The international discourse surrounding the ethical development and deployment of AI systems should include labour exploitation.
Artist Credit: Bill Bramhall
@MeanwhileinCanada "AI systems are fueled by the stolen labour of creative people"
AI doesn't do anything human artists don't also do, except on a massive scale. Tell an artist you want a painting in the style of Van Gogh or Pollack without either of you using those terms or "stealing" the style of those artists. None of this is to say that there aren't massive concerns with AI, copyright, ownership, etc., just that we shouldn't necessarily call it theft without including a large asterisk.
@MeanwhileinCanada The entirety of the internet is fueled by stolen labour of creative people and those inputting that data for the last 50 years.
Generative AI just makes faster work of finding and summarizing this information than traditional search engines.
I am sure there are loads of copyright infractions and violations committed in the process of training these LLMs. But what they're doing is not new and we are no more equipped to even challenge it effectively. Though I wish we were.
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