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Andrew Smith's avatar

I've been getting good at the new suite of Open AI tools, and they're pretty amazing - and I get why most of these ventures are flopping. It's just so easy to make something right now, and there's a mad race to sell the picks/shovels for the future (not just the chips, but all the scaffolding people are using to build things). Hackers are loving it.

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Andrew Sniderman 🕷️'s avatar

Yes and if you look beyond the individual or small startups, tech companies (full of professional hackers) are the ones doing the most with AI right now.

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I can say for sure that my small businesses will be doing a lot with AI, but almost totally at the back end - just to make life easier for the staff and management. The front end? That's still gonna be artisan, I think.

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Andrew Sniderman 🕷️'s avatar

Smort. Consumer backlash is strong.

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Albert Cory's avatar

Right. AI does some useful stuff.

Artists should get paid when their work is used to train AI. I look for union contracts to cover this. It's pretty much impossible to pay them when it's USED.

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Andrew Sniderman 🕷️'s avatar

Ah, I was hoping it would set a precedent. So, if I, for example, had uploaded every photo I took to flickr bitd (back in the day) do you think their Ts & Cs covered any such scenario?

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Try asking AI to read the t&c!

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Andrew Sniderman 🕷️'s avatar

Remember the NYTs lawsuit against openAI and MSFT? It’ll be 2 years in December but it looks to still be rolling along albeit slowly. Latest was attempts to dismiss because of DMCA which I know little about but is supposed to protect digital copyrights.

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Albert Cory's avatar

I posted about this. I think it will be settled, NYT will get a big sum, and artists will get nothing.

In that case, artists did work-for-hire, so they should expect nothing, but a music company or photo library is something different.

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