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Brian Eno: “The biggest problem about AI is not intrinsic to AI. It’s to do with the fact that it’s owned by the same few people” (musictech.com)
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[–] aramis87@fedia.io 154 points 3 months ago (43 children)

The biggest problem with AI is that they're illegally harvesting everything they can possibly get their hands on to feed it, they're forcing it into places where people have explicitly said they don't want it, and they're sucking up massive amounts of energy AMD water to create it, undoing everyone else's progress in reducing energy use, and raising prices for everyone else at the same time.

Oh, and it also hallucinates.

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 29 points 3 months ago (9 children)

Eh I’m fine with the illegal harvesting of data. It forces the courts to revisit the question of what copyright really is and hopefully erodes the stranglehold that copyright has on modern society.

Let the companies fight each other over whether it’s okay to pirate every video on YouTube. I’m waiting.

[–] naught@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 months ago (4 children)

AI scrapers illegally harvesting data are destroying smaller and open source projects. Copyright law is not the only victim

https://thelibre.news/foss-infrastructure-is-under-attack-by-ai-companies/

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

In this case they just need to publish the code as a torrent. You wouldn't setup a crawler if there was all the data in a torrent swarm.

[–] untakenusername@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

I've heard stuff like bittorent doesn't work well when the data is often updated or changed

I might be totally wrong, I've only ever used it once when downloading Wikipedia

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