“We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water & people buy it from us on a meter.”

- Sam Altman

As someone whose books were taken without permission to train OpenAI, I have a problem with this.

How can a company claim to own work it didn’t create & sell it back to us?

https://gizmodo.com/sam-altman-says-intelligence-will-be-a-utility-and-hes-just-the-man-to-collect-the-bills-2000732953

Sam Altman Says Intelligence Will Be a Utility, and He's Just the Man to Collect the Bills

"Intelligence too cheap to meter" doesn't quite come across the way Altman might intend.

Gizmodo

@Sheril this is highlighting the flaws of copyright and intellectual property laws once more. Seeing this reminds me how Google and all the others got away with the same.

What we really need is an international Reform of these laws that remove the options to circumvent legal requirements with the most money and political influence, and prevent uneven laws bring put into effect favoring the "big guys".

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