> This is not “influence and inspiration”, this is companies feeding other people’s work into a commercial product which they sell access to. The product would be useless without other people’s work, therefore they should be compensated.
Sure.
Who do we send the compensation to for Leonardo da Vinci? Or Shakespeare, for a text-based example?
Do you want them to compensate me for the stuff I uploaded to Wikipedia and licensed as public domain, or what I've uploaded to GitHub with an MIT license?
A model trained only on licensed data is still an existential threat to the incomes of people whose works were never included in the model, precisely because they're only useful to the extent that they generalise beyond their own examples.
> The camera enabled something that was not possible before, and I wasn’t built by taking the work of sketch artists and painters. It was an entirely new form of art and media.
A new form of art that was (a) initially decried as "not art", and (b) which almost completely ended the economic value of portraiture.
> Who do we send the compensation to for Leonardo da Vinci? Or Shakespeare, for a text-based example?
Those authors aren't alive and their works are in the public domain. Bringing them up is irrelevant and a diversion from the actual problem, which is that creators alive today whose work is under copyright today and who need to make a living from their art are having it taken with zero compensation and had it fed into AI, stealing their effort.
> A model trained only on licensed data is still an existential threat to the incomes of people whose works were never included in the model, precisely because they're only useful to the extent that they generalise beyond their own examples.
Again, a diversion. We can debate how much AI trained on properly-licensed AI should be controlled, but it's pretty clear that the bare minimum is for all AI training data to require explicit permission from the creator of that data.
Let me clarify - you're not even misinterpreting my comment - you're just making up random things that I never said and which no reasonable person could ever draw from my words.
There's no point to arguing this further because you're clearly not acting in good faith. It is impossible to have a reasonable conversation with someone who randomly (and falsely) claims that others said things that they did not.
Sure.
Who do we send the compensation to for Leonardo da Vinci? Or Shakespeare, for a text-based example?
Do you want them to compensate me for the stuff I uploaded to Wikipedia and licensed as public domain, or what I've uploaded to GitHub with an MIT license?
A model trained only on licensed data is still an existential threat to the incomes of people whose works were never included in the model, precisely because they're only useful to the extent that they generalise beyond their own examples.
> The camera enabled something that was not possible before, and I wasn’t built by taking the work of sketch artists and painters. It was an entirely new form of art and media.
A new form of art that was (a) initially decried as "not art", and (b) which almost completely ended the economic value of portraiture.