Mastodawn

Look, I know AI is controversial, but just for a moment, let's set aside our preconceived notions, our biases, the environmental impact, the massive cost to train and run models, the labor exploitation, the intellectual property theft, the inaccuracies, the mania it causes in users, the destruction of search, the deskilling of professionals, the devaluation of creative work, job losses, and lack of economic value from enterprise implementations.

Wait, what were we talking about?

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Ashwin Dixit 2d ago

@maxleibman

There are 5 main reasons creatives hate AI:

1) Consent: Grabs their work without asking.

2) Credit: Doesn't give them credit.

3) Compensation: Doesn't pay them.

4) Commodification: Trivializes the craft they learned diligently, over time.

5) Replacement: Takes their paying gigs away.

Then as you pointed out, there's the environment impact.

One of the projects in my queue is:
"maLcoLM: the ethical AI", which addresses ALL these concerns.

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Ashwin Dixit 2d ago

@maxleibman

Artists voluntarily submit their work as training data to maLcoLM.

maLcoLM credits artists.

maLcoLM pays artists automatically anytime a derivative work is generated, in exact proportion to the extent their original work contributed to the derived work.

maLcoLM is a tribute to artists' hard work, a super-charged creative tool to let them take creativity to the next level.

maLcoLM will generate more paying work at a higher level of sophistication, not replace people.

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Ashwin Dixit 2d ago

@maxleibman

Please share your thoughts on this.

Do you think artists hate AI too much to ever open up to this concept?

Would you ever contribute art/music/writing/code to maLcoLM?

Thanks!

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Arne Mertz 2d ago

@purrperl my thoughts: where would the money come from to pay those artists, on top of the energy cost? The use of that AI would be much more expensive than the ones trained on stolen IP. Would the market for not-so-cheap AI art be big enough to warrant the investment in the thousands (or millions?) of pieces of actual art needed to train it?
Wouldn't anyone ethical enough to pay the price for maLcoLms "fair" AI art be ethical enough to just pay the artist directly and get an original?

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Jas4U

@arne_mertz @purrperl You have made a very valid point with this. AI is all so very new, and we have yet so far to go in understanding and be able to use AI to our benefit and to its full potential.

I'm looking forward to doing much research into this.

Stay blessed.