William J. Bowman🇨🇦Mar 18

I think if I spend any more time on this, I'll risk doing more harm than good: new blog post on "AI" and ethics.

https://www.williamjbowman.com/blog/2026/03/13/against-vibes-part-2-ought-you-use-a-generative-model/

Against Vibes Part 2: Ought You Use a Generative Model

Since the wide-spread availability and forced deployment of generative models, people have argued about the ethics of using them. Many arguments have been presented to argue that they're _bad_: they use too much electricity, boil the oceans, massively inf...

Show threadchris martens5d ago
@wilbowma i think a big thing you're missing about the "intellectual property" arguments is the more compelling ones are about nonconsensual enclosure and devaluation of human creative labor, not about protecting legal copyright in a vacuum
Show threadMeven Lennon-Bertrand
@chrisamaphone @wilbowma One should definitely be able to say that copyright is not a great framework to support a society where creative work can be rewarded but at the same time that the way the AI industry is organised is extremely harmful. (But I guess in your words @willbowma this is part of the power argument? Although I don't see how you can argue about copyright without arguing about power: copyright is in principle a tool to give power to creators...)
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Show threadchris martens5d ago
@mevenlennonbertrand @wilbowma it may not be a great framework but yeah given that it's the one we're in, it is one of the very few tools individual creators actually have to object to exploitation / seek fair compensation
Show threadPhilippa Cowderoy5d ago
@chrisamaphone @mevenlennonbertrand @wilbowma And it's describing what amounts to the concentration of intellectual capital, which should be clear enough for anybody who accepts the necessity of transitional demands