In its submission to the Australian government’s review of the regulatory framework around AI, Google said that copyright law should be altered to allow for generative AI systems to scrape the internet.

  • frog 🐸
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    131 year ago

    Absolutely agreed! I think if the proponents of AI artwork actually had any knowledge of art history, they’d understand that humans don’t just iterate the same ideas over and over again. Van Gogh, Picasso, and many others, did work that was genuinely unique and not just a derivative of what had come before, because they brought more to the process than just looking at other artworks.

    • nickwitha_k (he/him)
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      71 year ago

      Yup. There seems to be a strong motive in many to not understand this concept as it makes their practices clearly ethically questionable.

      • frog 🐸
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        71 year ago

        My feeling is that the vast majority of pro-AI techbros come from a computer science, finance, or business background; undoubtedly intelligent people, but completely and utterly lacking in any appreciation or understanding of what actually goes into creative work. I’m sure they genuinely believe that there’s no difference between what a human does and what an AI does, because they think art (or writing, music, etc) are just the product of an algorithm.

        • Phanatik
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          21 year ago

          Ironically, my background is in mathematics but I also happen to be a writer so I see both sides of the argument. I just see the utter lack of compassion people have for those who produce creative work and the same people believe that if it can be automated, it should be automated.

        • nickwitha_k (he/him)
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          11 year ago

          Likely. Which is weird because algorithms are only a subset of software engineering, which requires abstract and creative thought to perform well.