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Thousands of published authors are requesting payment from tech companies for the use of their copyrighted works in training artificial intelligence tools, marking the latest intellectual property critique to target AI development.

Thousands of authors demand payment from AI companies for use of copyrighted works::Thousands of published authors are requesting payment from tech companies for the use of their copyrighted works in training artificial intelligence tools, marking the latest intellectual property critique to target AI development.

  • novibe@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I know the answer to pretty much all of our “why the hell don’t we solve this already?” questions is: capitalism.

    But I mean, as Lrrr would say “why does the working class, as the biggest of the classes, doesn’t just eat the other one?”.

    • Zetaphor@zemmy.ccEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      The short answer is friction. The friction of overcoming the forces of violence the larger class has at its disposal and utilizes at the smallest hint of uprising is greater than the friction of accepting the status quo.

      • novibe@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Most people don’t even think that’s an option though.

        The end of history, with the fall of USSR and capitalism winning the propaganda wars, means most people don’t even see a different future.

        Why would you fight a future that looks the same?

        People need to wake up and have hope for a different, better future. That’s the only way they’ll more against this.

        But for that 100+ years of propaganda have to be overcome…