That's an intentional misinterpretation, I think. I mention art as an economic activity because it's primarily professional artists that are harmed by the widespread adoption of this technology.
They tried to use the labor theory early on by claiming, "real art takes hard work and time as opposed to the miniscule cpu hours computers use to make 'AI art". The worst thing AI brings to the table is amplifying these types of sentiments to control industry in their favor where they would otherwise be unheard and relegated to Instagram likes
> It's funny that these people use the langauge of communism, but apparently see artwork as purley an economic activity.
You hit the nail on the head. Copyright is, by its very nature, a "tool of capital." It's a means of creating new artificial property fiefdoms for a select few capital holders to lord over, while taking rights from anyone else who wants to engage in the practice of making art.
Everyone has their right to expression infringed upon, all so the 1% of artists can perpetually make money on things, which are ultimately sold to corporations that only pay them pennies on the dollar anyway.
You, as an indie hip hop or house musician supported by a day job, can't sample and chop some vocals or use a slice of a chord played in a song (as were common in the 80s and 90s) for a completely new work, but apparently the world is such a better place because Taylor Swift is a multimillionaire and Disney can milk the maximum value from space and superhero films.
I'd rather live in a world where anyone is free to make whatever art they want, even if everyone has to have a day job.
What do you mean? Copyright protects all creative works, and all authors of those creative works. That some have greater means to enforce was always true, and copyright doesn’t cause that, it (imperfectly) helps mitigate it. What copyright does is actually prevent them from stealing work from independent artists en masse, and force them to at least hire and pay some artists.
> I’d rather live in a world where anyone is free to make whatever art they want, even if everyone has to have a day job.
You’re suggesting abolish Copyright and/or the Berne Convention? Yeah the problem with this thinking is that then the big publishers are completely free to steal everyone’s work without paying for it. The very thing you’re complaining about would only get way way worse if we allowed anyone to “freely” make whatever art they want by taking it from others. “Anyone” means Disney too, and Disney is more motivated than you.
> You, as an indie hip hop or house musician supported by a day job, can’t sample and chop some vocals or use a slice of a chord played in a song… for a completely new work
Hehe, if you sample, you are by definition not making a completely new work. But this is a terrible argument since sampling in music is widespread and has sometimes been successfully defended in court. DJs are the best example of independent artists who need protection you can think of?
> It's a means of creating new artificial property fiefdoms for a select few capital holders to lord over, while taking rights from anyone else who wants to engage in the practice of making art.
I doubt even Disney sue people who want to make fan art. But if you want to sell said art or distribute it, they will.
I don't really think the differnce between an economy that grows by 2% a year and economy that is consitently getting poorer, is analogous to a difference in taste.
Well you can listen to all the western economists decrying Japan based on economic values or you could take a trip and see the factors that GDP does not reflect.
Wealth inequality is not reflected in GDP
Quality is not reflected in GDP
Consumer protection is negative influence on GDP as is, in the short and mid term that is measured, almost any other intervention like Environmental protection.
Well, yeah. Now they are. Obama was begging the EU to take this seriously back in 2014.
"Our people and our homeland face no direct threat from the invasion of Crimea. Our own borders are not threatened by Russia’s annexation. But that kind of casual indifference would ignore the lessons that are written in the cemeteries of this continent. " - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbeLAQ3wBIs
I applaud Germany for weaning itself off Russian oil, but it's kinda weird that America seemed to be a lot more alert to this threat than the EU.
I wonder if a langauge could be built from the ground up with LLMs in mind. Are there any language design decisions that would lead to better LLM code?
Really? Granted LLMs might be a little weaker in physics than other areas. If someone figures out get LLMs to use a mathmatica API, and train it some more I can imagine some rapid progress.
I'm sure there will always be music made with varying levels technology. Seems like it will always be the case that any technology past that made in one's childhood will be the cutoff for some people.
It's funny that these people use the langauge of communism, but apparently see artwork as purley an economic activity.