Mastodawn

Nick @ The Linux Experiment Apr 8, 2024

All it would take for AI to completely collapse is a ruling in the US saying these companies have to licence the content they used to train these tools.

They simply would never reach a sustainable business model if they had to fairly compensate all the people who wrote, drew, edited, sang or just created the content they use.

Simply being forced to respect attribution and licenses would kill them. Will that ruling ever happen? Maybe not. Should it? I think so.

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Daniel Brotherston

@thelinuxEXP I don't think it would...

In fact, it could make things worse...because those with power and money would be able to acquire (and perhaps even force exclusivity agreements) with those who own the data. Unfortunately, data ownership has become significantly centralized.

They would certainly lose access to some data, but ultimately I don't think it would stop these companies, it would simply provide them another way to limit competition.