I now routinely introduce this technology as "copyright laundering" and the hype put out by start-up boards and VCs as a ploy to disguise this fact. The "AI threat" is smoke-and-mirrors to dress up what's happening.
I derive a huge amount of value from chatgpt because I can copy/paste without any IP impact. I could always have done this: from github, from ebooks, from many sources.
Now I can benefits from the labour of many for free -- their copyrights laundered through a thin statistical trick.
As with crypto (, pyramid schemes, etc.) the big "philosophical pitch" becomes a disguise for a brutal material reality.
Midjourney, ChatGPT, etc. are doing automatically what would be illegal by-hand.
I derive a huge amount of value from chatgpt because I can copy/paste without any IP impact. I could always have done this: from github, from ebooks, from many sources.
Now I can benefits from the labour of many for free -- their copyrights laundered through a thin statistical trick.
As with crypto (, pyramid schemes, etc.) the big "philosophical pitch" becomes a disguise for a brutal material reality.
Midjourney, ChatGPT, etc. are doing automatically what would be illegal by-hand.